{"id":9271,"date":"2011-01-07T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"torchlight-beyond-good-evil-hd-coming-to-xbla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9271-torchlight-beyond-good-evil-hd-coming-to-xbla","title":{"rendered":"Torchlight, Beyond Good & Evil HD coming to XBLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Xbox LIVE Arcade is throwing its second (annual?) House Party promo, with a special game launch each week starting 16 February.<\/p>\n

Most prominent on the launch list is indie darling Torchlight, revealed for XBLA just this week at CES. Cult darling Beyond Good & Evil HD will also be making its way to XBLA and should definitely be considered by those who missed the original. Bejeweled Blitz Live, Hard Corps: Uprising, and Full House Poker are also included.<\/p>\n

Torchlight comes over from PC, where its Diablo-Lite gameplay has charmed the cursed plate cuisses off critics and gamers alike. Since everybody on Xbox LIVE has probably already finished DeathSpank four times already, this should be a welcome replacement.<\/p>\n

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Despite previously announcing the game for both Xbox and PS3, Runic Games’ Torchlight developer Travis Baldtree has confirmed in a post on the dev’s forums<\/a> that Torchlight won’t be going over to the PSN.<\/p>\n

“No PS3 plans to speak of,” he said. “Microsoft is acting as the publisher on this one. And given how much work it was to get one console game done, I’m a little relieved we didn’t attempt both platforms at once anyway.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Beyond Good & Evil HD<\/a> is, of course, a remake of Ubisoft’s now rather legendary action-adventure game – originally released as the first of an intended trilogy, poor sales doomed the game to a purgatory of obscurity, despite enormous critical acclaim.<\/p>\n

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A sequel was finally announced some time last year, and now the first game’s getting a second chance, with shiny 1080p visuals, new character models, improved textures, a remastered soundtrack, online leaderboards, and Xbox Achievements. A PSN version is still in the works.<\/p>\n

Discuss the Xbox LIVE House Party<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n\n\t\t