TorchCon 2026 is a love letter to the Torchlight Infinite community but is the community writing back?

Idols crafted from solid gold, entire rooms concealed behind movable walls, and a dramatic thunderstorm raging in the middle of it all - these probably aren't things you'd expect from an annual convention for a mobile game, but that's exactly what happened over the weekend at TorchCon 2026. As you might expect from my headline, the event was mostly XD Games reporting to our collective masters, AKA the Torchlight: Infinite players. I was on the ground at the West Bund Art Centre in Shanghai, China - and on that fateful evening on July 11th, in the midst of the developers pushing for everything there is to look forward to for the aRPG's new season, I witnessed an entire community very passionately pushing back. ... [MORE]