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Iron Lore is no more. Sniff.

Iron Lore Entertainment has closed its doors and is no longer making any games.

The Titan Quest developer said "several unrelated events" stopped it gaining crucial funding.

"It is with great regret that we must announce that as of close of business Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Iron Lore Entertainment has ceased active game development," said the statement on its website. "Several unrelated events occurred which resulted in Iron Lore being unable to secure funding for its next project.

"We would like to extend our thanks to everyone who has helped us in the last seven years - our team who moved mountains to create such great games, our publisher THQ who has been a great partner through three product development cycles, and most of all our customers and fans. We owe all of the success we've had to you, and our greatest satisfaction has come from creating games that have given enjoyment to the community."

Iron Lore was formed in 2000 and released its first game, Titan Quest, in 2006. The Diablo-like title scored well among critics and was well recommended by Eurogamer.

It was decorated with an Immortal Throne expansion a year later, before Iron Lore set to work on Dawn of War add-on Soulstorm. Presumably work on that is now finished, given its imminent release on 7th March.

Pity.

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Cider-X #1 4 years ago

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Pc gaming is dead
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monkey_man #2 4 years ago

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Founded 2000.
First game came out 2006.

I think I know why they went bust.
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Animal #3 4 years ago

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Unclelou will be upset...
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Eldritch #4 4 years ago

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Same here, monkey_man. Still, that game must've sold a few times, or did THQ keep all of that money?
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UncleLou #5 4 years ago

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Unclelou will be upset...

Indeed.

Ffs. TQ was fantastic.I was hoping there'd be a second one.
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Nylkran #6 4 years ago

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I blame myself really, for not buying their game, I wanted to but my PC wont run it.
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Triggerhappytel #7 4 years ago

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It's never, ever nice to see a little developer go out of business. Good luck to all employees.
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asphaltcowboy #8 4 years ago

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a shame
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agparrot #9 4 years ago

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Who?
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Leolian #10 4 years ago

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F'ing love that game! Will have to see which companies they disseminate to... Fuck knows how I'll do that mind.
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SpeedyThing #11 4 years ago

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It's sad but not entirely unexpected. In 6 years they made a single PC game in a seemingly dead genre that is still dominated by one of the biggest games of all time.

My sympathy does go out to the indivduals though

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krokomkiller #12 4 years ago

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It�s a pity.
Titan quest is the best action-rpg I�v played.
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UncleLou #13 4 years ago

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Not to be harsh or unsympathetic, but, why exactly is this newsworthy?

If you think long and hard about that question, you'll be able to answer that for yourself, I am certain. Come on, you can do it. I believe in you.

The stupidity of some people recently is killing me.
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Miths #14 4 years ago

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That's a shame. TQ (plus expansion) was the best "Diablo clone" I've played in years. Well, probably ever actually.
And it looked pretty damn good as well.
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SentientNr6 #15 4 years ago

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Responsible for one of the best diablo clones ever and they have to close doors? ouch!
I enjoyed TQ a lot but never got around to buying the expansion. A decision I now regret.
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SproutWinkler #16 4 years ago

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What a shame

Titan Quest was a fantastic action RPG. I still play through it today which is more than I can say about Crysis, Bioshock, Half-life, etc.
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7creature #17 4 years ago

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Best clone, but still only clone, Diablo & Diablo 2 LoD >> all their clones.

Pity though, there was definitely potential for great games from IL

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BooMMooB #18 4 years ago

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oh, that sucks. Titan Quest was actually quite good. Hope the people find jobs elsewhere...
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yagisencho #19 4 years ago

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Titan Quest was well-done, and I preferred it over Dungeon Seige (though Diablo 2 is still my genre favorite). Best wishes to the Iron Lore team members.
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