Torchlight Frontiers delayed into 2020

Back at the tail-end of 2018, and nine months after it shut down Torchlight developer Runic Games, publisher Perfect World Entertainment announced that a new game in the series, the free-to-play Torchlight Frontiers, was on the way and due to arrive at some point this year. You'll need to keep your waiting hat on, however, as that release has now been delayed into 2020.

Torchlight Frontiers, if you're wondering, is being developed by Echtra Games, the studio established by Runic Games co-founder Max Schaefer in 2016. It unfolds in the same universe as its predecessors, but sets itself apart from previous games by shifting the series' hack-and-slash dungeon crawling to a "shared, persistent and dynamically generated world". You can see a smattering of that in the early gameplay trailer below.

Although Torchlight Frontiers was originally expected to release this year - and its official website still proclaims as much - Schaefer has now confirmed in an interview with PC Gamer that the studio has revised its plans and is aiming to launch the game in 2020.

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