{"id":6049,"date":"2010-05-18T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"torchlight-passes-500-000-sales-developer-bought-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/6049-torchlight-passes-500-000-sales-developer-bought-out","title":{"rendered":"Torchlight passes 500,000 sales, Developer bought out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Runic Game&rsquo;s understated yet critically successful retro style hack &lsquo;n slash dungeon crawler, Torchlight, has surpassed 500,000 sales, making it a veritable mega-hit in the world of indie-games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game is currently available via a number of online distribution channels for around $20 (R150), and is frequently featured on various specials and sales. It is available for PC, and now Mac via Steam.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese based MMO publisher and developer Perfect World has just bought a majority stake in Runic Games for around $8.84 million (R66 million).<\/p>\n<p>Runic is busy working on an MMORPG version of Torchlight, which will supposedly be free-to-play, and make money via micro-transactions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?5885-Torchlight-sells-half-a-million-units&amp;p=223009#post223009\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Torchlight <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie RPG achieves excellent sales, Chinese publisher buys out developer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}