Torchlight II pushed back to Summer 2011

Originally scheduled for release in Spring 2011, Torchlight II will now ship sometime this Summer as the development team is busy porting the original Torchlight to Xbox Live. The announcement was made by Max Schaefee, CEO of Runic Games during an interview with DigitalSpy.

“I’d say that the Xbox project, having to do the extra work with the interface, has pushed us back a little bit, so we’re probably talking July right now for Torchlight II,” he explained.

“It’s going great, however. We’ve actually got some optimisations and technical improvements that went into making the Xbox version that we’ve been able to go back and implement into Torchlight II for PC.”

“We’ve got load times down, we’ve got some animation stuff that’s a little bit better, and it’s feeling really good right now.”

So its not entirely bad news though as the extra development time will yield more polish. Meanwhile, console gamers who missed out on all the fun can pick up Torchlight on XBL when it releases on March 9th.