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Torchlight 2 coming with co-op and LAN play

The hit love-letter to Diablo, Torchlight, is getting a sequel with every gamer's number one wish: co-op play. Woot!

We love Torchlight. It's the kind of game you keep permanently installed on your hard drive for any glum day where a bit of random hack and slash combined with greedy looting is the only answer to chasing away the blues. But what the original really needed was a co-op mode - because racially motivated home invasions (ie, dungeon crawls) are best shared with friends.

And thankfully, Runic Games has just announced Torchlight 2 will have co-op and more.

It'll still be same low-powered, high-quality feel of the original, but it'll have four classes and mess more customisation options, but the real draw is multiplayer. We're talking full co-op, LAN play and a peer-to-peer matchmaking service.

Torchlight 2 will be released in Autumn (our Autumn, that is) next year. Check out the official page for more deets.

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9 Comments

omega Aug 9, 2010 11:41 AM	Great to hear :) How many players can multiplay, co-op and LAN? Is it a limit of 4 (1 per class) or will there be multiples of each class allowed?
sirtrancealot Aug 9, 2010 12:54 PM	That's awesome, great news, loved the original minus the whole no multiplayer bit
danin316 Aug 9, 2010 2:17 PM	hahaha "racially motivated home invasions" is there anything better pmsl
Martyr Aug 9, 2010 6:21 PM	I'm still yet to play the original game, but its on my to do list. Multiplay only makes things better...especially when LAN is included.
Brissmas Aug 9, 2010 8:00 PM	Awesome. Loved the first game from what ive played so far.
Rory K Aug 9, 2010 10:19 PM	Awesome, LAN multiplayer ftw! meaningful glance at SC2
jdog Aug 10, 2010 1:36 PM	Sweet loved torchlight and this is just cool!
Metasynaptic Aug 10, 2010 3:05 PM	I don't mean to pick on this, but I'm almost certain that co-op for Torchlight 2 was announced ages ago. I'm pretty sure Runic posted it on their forums, if I'm not crazily mistaken.
Hawkeye Aug 10, 2010 3:26 PM	I only saw it last week, so figured if I'd only seen it then, then it would be news to some of my audience as well - and that seems to be the case :)

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