One year ago on the fateful day of October 27, 2009, a day that will live as a legend in our mind, a barely heard-of studio launched its first title: Torchlight.

Word of Ember blazed to life! Dungeon-crawler fans rejoiced, and our moms were proud. Because of you, Torchlight found a home and became a success. Because you love playing Torchlight and encouraged your friends to check it out, we are able to be here a year later, making Torchlight II. Our simple principle of making the type of game we want to play and doing so as efficiently as possible resonated with you. We’ve loved seeing your screenshots and hearing about your fire-ball casting pet cats. We were just as excited as you, when you unlocked the Horse level and found the Sword of Adam. We have a great team that cares about the work we do, we have great distribution partners, and most importantly we have an awesome community. Thank you for supporting us! We can’t wait to share everything that’s next with you all.

We are celebrating Torchlight’s one year PC anniversary with a 50% sale, for 48 hours on our site. Beginning October 27th at 8am PST, you can get Torchlight for PC at Torchlightgame.com for $10. Sale ends October 29th at 8am PST. This ensures everyone in their respective time-zones gets a chance to take advantage of the party! Tell your friends! And as always, thank you for playing.

Things have been pretty exciting here at Runic over the last few months. Torchlight has sold more than 500,000 copies since we released last year, and is now available as a digital download and in retail boxes for both PC and Mac. We won some nifty awards (2010 Game Developers Choice Award for Best Debut Game AND GameIndustry.com's RPG Game of the Year 2009), made it to the quarter-finals in the Indie Games Tournament (congrats to Shattered Horizon for winning!) on DIYGamer.com and even found time to move offices! We also chatted with PC Gamer on the making of Torchlight. Things have been so busy, we have not been able to figure out what this is… any ideas?

Nab Torchlight for PC and Mac for just ten bucks – cheaper than a summer burger and brew on the patio! Summer is finally here and it’s time to stock up on briskets for the barbecue and RPG’s for your computer.

Thanks everyone that participated in the Steam Summer Sale! Unfortunately, the summer sale is now over.

In between flipping burgers on the back porch and icing your co-workers (you know who you are!), there will always be a time you need to rest from from exposure to that great ball of flame in the sky and retreat into dark dungeons for some demon slayin’.

Or declare a fast from games but stock up now for winter – not to rain on your parade, there is a La Nina warning meaning a colder, wetter winter, and Torchlight will save you from cabin fever. Get it here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/41500/