In today's Xbox Live Arcade update, Torchlight, a colorful dungeon crawler originally released on the PC in 2009, went live for console gamers. And even though it had been expected to la𓃲unch in the US and Japan on the same day, it turns out the game was never planned for Japan in the first place - something that wasn't announced until today.

In a message released on the Japanese version of Xbox.com today, the company announced that Torchlight had been canceled. A Google translation of the statement cites a "bug" for🦂 the game's axing, adding, "We apologize for the inconvenience."

However, Travis✃ Baldree, presiden🐻t of Runic, the game's developer, has a different story. He there was never even a plan to release a Japanese version.

"We're not privy to the decision making process in providing the game in Japan - but it was not due to bugs in the translation because the game has never been 🌃translated to Japanese. Since there was no existing Japanese version of the game, the complexity of a new translation combined with the randomly generated naming scheme for Torchlight made it beyond the scope of the project," said Baldree.

We obviously don't know what went o𝓡n behind the scenes, but to a casual observer it almost looks like the Xbox Japan team just reached out today and asked, "Hey, what's the deal with Torchlight? Isn't it supposed to be released today?"

That's probably not what happened, but it certainly suggests that there are some communication issues when a localization project which never existed is cancelled. ওAnyway, Torchlight was released today in the US with no issues.

Update:澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft has is🌠sueဣd the following statement, confirming that Torchlight was not cancelled due to bugs:

"We made the decision to not launch 'Torchlight' on Xbox LIVE Arcade in Japan due to localization c♛omplexities; not due to bugs. We apologize fo𝕴r any inconvenience."

The company did not respond to the develౠoper's clꦚaim that a localized version was never planned.

[Source: (Google Translation), ]

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Mar 9, 2011