This just in, the teaser image has been updated! A significant splattered chunk of darkness has been removed, revealing a staircase and a few small pieces of another ghostly-looking place. What do you think?

Another point worth noticing is that the image's location is titled 08042010, or August 4, 2010? Could this be the designated date of the big announcement? Throw in your speculation with the rest of us in the comments section!

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The latest issue of the Torchlight Dispatch is now out and it contains a mystery! The following intro ends with what appears to be a piece of an image showing through in a weird shape:

Update from the Runic Team

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?

Personally, I think it looks like a Torchlight dungeon frozen in ice and snow, possibly thawing out from the flames. Could this be a teaser for the Torchlight MMO? Feel free to post your thoughts in the comments of this thread.
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After many many months we are finally here! The new site has launched and I welcome you! Before I get into the nitty gritty details, here are two important pieces of information everyone needs to know:

1. All User accounts have been unified by e-mail address. If you had both a Mods Database and Forum account on the old site, then your username will be the same as the forum. If you had two different e-mails you may have two different accounts now.
2. Everyone must RESET THEIR PASSWORDS to log in!

Now, before the most important info, I want to give a huge thanks to our testers and new staff members. ...

Well boys and girls, ladies and gentleman, and Torchlight fans of all ages, the time is nearly here! After over six months of planning, experimentation, and hard work, we are finally finalizing the new website, and should be launching it this weekend if there are no unforeseen problems. Take your last look around the site as it is now, because next week we're going to be running the entire thing from our brand new vBulletin CMS Suite. All your user accounts, forum posts, wiki articles and Torchlight ...