The closure of Runic Games, the Seattle-based video-game studio that created the popular dungeon crawlers Torchlight and Torchlight II, is the latest example of a popular game developer falling victim ...

Motiga isn't the only casualty among Perfect World's ranks this week. The company also shut down the Seattle-based Runic Games, developer of the Torchlight series and the recently released Hob. Runic ...

Chinese publisher Perfect World announced it has shut down Torchlight developer Runic Games and has stripped down Gigantic developer Motiga. "Perfect World Entertainment recently closed the Seattle ...

Torchlight 2 has officially been released and is now available to play on Steam or good old fashioned retail DVD. Even though the game has been released nearly a year behind schedule, enabling Runic ...

"We were a new studio and we had to come quickly and make a big hit right away to establish ourselves," says Runic Games CEO Max Schaefer, talking about creating a hit game the way you or I may talk ...

Runic Games, the developer behind games like Torchlight and Hob, has been shut down. After nine years of developing games, publisher Perfect World Entertainment has shuttered the doors of Runic Games.

Chinese free-to-play publisher Perfect World Entertainment has shut down Torchlight developer Runic Games, and laid off the majority of staff at Gigantic studio Motiga. "I'm sorry to say that today ...

Runic Games, the Seattle-based studio behind Hob and the Torchlight series, is no more. China-based publisher Perfect World Entertainment — which acquired a majority stake in Runic in May 2010 — told ...

Hob, a new puzzle/platformer from Runic Games, will be available to PC and PlayStation 4 gamers starting September 26, 2017. The developer announced the news in a PlayStation blog post, while also ...

It’s unusual that a studio with only two games to its name can announce a new game, say almost nothing about it, and still get people excited. When that studio is Runic Games, the developer behind ...

Runic Games has announced that Torchlight, its action RPG with randomly generated levels, will hit October 27 via digital download. The single-player game has three classes to choose from - the ...

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