Hurray! Dinocide release date is set for January 21st.

Everything seems to be going as we planned and Dinocide will appear on Steam on January 21th, 2016. Obviously you can grab the game direct and DRM free from our official store as well. The game is available for Windows, Mac and Linux for $9.99 USD.

Dinocide is a classic NES-inspired platformer in a prehistoric fantasy world. It's a story of a cave-man who rescues his love interest from the paws of an evil and mysterious Dinosaur god.

The game delivers that familiar feeling of a classic console gaming and offers a lot of surprises and unmatched classical fun and drive.

For more information please visit the official Dinocide website at http://dinocide.com/ 

Just a short update. We have finished working on some bug fixes for VoidExpanse and the new version is out. VoidExpanse v1.6.1 addresses server issues related to multiplayer as well as some crashes reported on Linux and a few other issues.

As always you can find the detailed list of change on our forums.

As you may know Dinocide has been successfully greenlit a while ago, which gave us a bit more time to actually work on the Demo (download here). It was very fun as-is, but you can always improve, right? And that's what we decided to do. We have added two important things, both to the game and to this demo.

First thing being a "boss" level which will conclude the three existing levels in the demo (and that boss will blow your mind, let me tell you that!). And the second one is a controller setup screen, which was another feature that quite a few of you guys requested.

Naturally this is not the only "boss" that you can encounter in the full game, we plan to add a great deal more interesting challenges on the path of prehistoric cave-man and his dino-friends. We cannot reveal how many of them there will be, but each of these encounters will definitely be an interesting challenge for you and will require a unique approach to overcome!

Other bosses will be available with a final release of the game which we estimate to be mid-winter. Meanwhile you can share some Boss-ideas with us on the forums.

Great news, everyone! Our second project - Dinocide has been Greenlit on Steam today!

The whole campaign took us just eight days, which was a bit surprising! But we really wouldn't have been able to do that without the help of our community. Not only that, but we've been greenlit even before we reached the top 100 list! That certainly says something, not sure exactly what, though, but we are happy with the end result!

Now, after reaching this important milestone we will put all of our efforts towards finishing the game as soon as possible. We really hope to release it this year, but you never know, we will most likely end up releasing in January. In any case, our primary goal now is to deliver a quality product!

I'd also like to remind you that you can already preorder Dinocide and be among the first players to lay your hands on the game when it is released. You can do that in our official AtomicTorch Store, you will get some extra goodies along with the game and the Steam key as well, obviosly!

We have a new VoidExpanse update for you!

This update took us a bit more time than we initially anticipated, but it is an extremely important update in the long run. We completely rewrote certain libraries and addressed many longstanding issues. This should really be the most stable build thus far and we hope that this will solve all known issues once and for all, giving you guys the best possible user experience!

Aside from bugfixes we were also able to sneak-in a few gameplay changes and balance adjustments and a few new features for modders, so that should be useful as well!

Anyway, you can read the detailed patch notes on our forums, as always.

We are happy to announce that we have finally launched Steam Greenlight page for our upcoming title - Dinocide. And we welcome everyone to support our campaign! With your help we can certainly pass it in a very short time and finally make the game available to everyone!

Moreover, as we previously announced in our blog you can also grab the Dinocide demo to get the taste for the game even before the official release. The demo can be found on the official website - www.dinocide.com and specifically on this page. Both demo and the game are multi-platform and can be played on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Anyway, try the demo, join our forums if you haven't yet done so, vote for our Greenlight campaign and let's see where it all goes! :)

We are happy to announce that the Dinocide trailer is available now!

Let us know on the forums what you think!

We have an excellent piece of news to report! Most of the work on our upcoming project - Dinocide is finally complete and Dinocide demo is ready to be played and available for downloads!

The demo allows you to play three completely different levels giving you a good taste of the game. These are not in-game locations, but specially designed demo-levels which should give you a good understanding about the core mechanics of the game and what it is about.

And couple of words about the project: We created Dinocide under strong influence of classical NES platformers and we want to invoke the same feeling of that old console gaming. Dinocide is a story of a prehistoric man who must rescues his love from the paws of an evil and mysterious Dinosaur god.

You can download the demo from the Dinocide website: http://dinocide.com/

And we would like to remind you that you can already preorder Dinocide in our official store - here.

We have some excellent news for everyone who preordered Dinocide (or going to).

As the work on the game continues and in fact very close to completion, we decided to make a small present to players who decided to support us! As promised we have created a collection of cool wallpapers which you can now download. You can do that in your "my games & items" page as always.

PS - here is a couple of wallpapers even if you haven't preordered the game :)

Stay tuned, we have more surprises for you!

AtomicTorch is proud to announce Dinocide, an upcoming prehistoric adventure!

In a prehistoric world, man’s best friend takes on a different, more reptilian form. To face the unknown dangers of a forgotten age, you’ll need to pair up with one of these majestic mounts to save the love of your life from an evil dino god. Ride high in the sky on a Pterodactyl, or choose the stomping incinerator known as Tyranno, among many more mountable dinosaur friends!

In Dinocide, dinosaurs not only offer friendly solace, but serve as a key mechanic to the way you will tackle the levels. Each dinosaur comes with a unique set of abilities that will directly help or hurt your success based on the area of the world you’re playing in. These locations vary from jungles, forests, lava caves, ice plains and deserts, and offer different enemies and platforming that you will have to overcome.

Health is based on a balance of hunger and damage taken, benefiting both fast-paced and methodical playstyles. Tackle levels slowly to replenish health and limit damage, or speed through at a breakneck pace to limit hunger—both can help you stay alive in a world inhabited by dozens of unruly creatures.

To learn more about Dinocide, visit the official website here: http://dinocide.com

We expect to launch a Greenlight campaign, trailer and a demo relatively soon, so make sure to check our blog once in a while! ;)

Additionally, if you'd like to support the development even before the official release - we have opened a preorders page as well.

Our next update is finally ready and officially released! But what's new this time? Let's take a look at some of the interesting additions and changes with this update!

New weapons - We've introduced a few new and interesting weapons. This time we added new mechanics along with it as well. You can find mine deploying missile or auto-swivel cannons, but most fun of all is the solar blaster!

Updated map system - Not only does it look better but map generation is improved as well.

Improved AI - Remember how pirates used to ram your ship in the past? That will happen no more! But aside from that their AI has been improved overall making all enemies you encounter in VoidExpanse much smarter and more interesting.

New content - A few new items have been added that you can purchase for your ship.

Stability improvements - And that is specifically the focus of this update. We've spent a lot of time polishing every bit of code to make sure that the game runs as smoothly as possible, but most importantly that there are not bugs on any systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) under any circumstances.

Possibilities for modding - As you requested on the forums - we've added a few new properties to data files and new API for scripting. So if that's your thing - make sure you see what's available for modding now!

...and a host of other new updates and changes! Make sure to let us know what you think about the update!

As always, you can read detailed patch notes on our forums.

As you may know we have our custom launcher to make it easier for you to download and install our games. In fact when using this launcher you don't need to do neither downloading nor installation.

You can simply drop a single executable file on your desktop or anywhere else and it will take care of everything for you. And we have just updated it. If you haven't tried it yet it would be a good idea to try now!

Here is the new interface:

As usually you can download the starter in your "My Games & Items" page once you login.

Hello everyone! We have another good news for you. Well, at least it is good for us :) Anyway, we have a new member of the team bringing the total count to five! Not counting all other people who work with us remotely and help with things like music, sound or other. As always, I will let the guy introduce himself.

"Hi, guys! I'm a new developer at AtomicTorch Studio. Well, technically I've been helping with stuff here for some time already, but now I'm an official member of the team.
And a bit of a back story is in order I guess? Since I saw my first computer I dreamed about a job in game development industry, but as you can imagine the way to my dream was longer than I expected :)
But finally I'm here and I feel it will be legen - wait for it - dary!"
Lurler edit: Dude, that last part is a bit too much :)

Don't forget to follow him on twitter as well - @KovalchukSerg.

We are pleased to announce that VoidExpanse is now localized into most major European languages!

Our fans have been working on these localizations for quite some time now, but now that slash111 has released an Italian localization we decided that it is finally time to let you guys know that there are quite a few more languages available for the game than just the two default ones which are English and Russian.

Currently there are five language localization mods available for VoidExpanse: Italian created by slash111, French by targus929, Spanish by MetalWAR, German by Alex[GER] and also Polish localization created by Crinigium.

These localizations are available as mods you can download from VoidExpanse Steam Workshop and enable to play the game more comfortably in a language you prefer. Please note, however, that we do not speak these languages ourselves, so we have no way to check the quality of these localizations, if there are any mistakes, and such. But either way, we would like to thank all the authors for their great work making VoidExpanse closer to the players!

It's time for some guides! You know, we always appreciate user-generated content and these guides is a perfect opportunity for our players to release their creative potential. In addition to that it can help other players learn more things about VoidExpanse. So, today we'll make a short review of them.

One of our friends finished creating a really ingenious and interesting guide “Mining addictions". Basically this is a mining guide with some advices how to make it a most profitable job which brings a lot of fun. We chose it to be first in this review because of its very creative and fun approach to the VoidExpanse playing. So, the best you can do now is read the guide, power up your mining laser and get rich!

The largest guide at the moment - “Slimelord's Guide to Void Expanse” created by Slimelord. It is a impressive work which describes all of the quests in VoidExpanse as well as many other interesting aspects of the game. We know that creation of this guide took a lot of time and effort and we really appreciate it! Actually, this is a measurement standard for guide composing.

Third useful guide is “Basic Trading Primer” from one of our most active friends loudent2. This guide is also about getting rich in the most comfortable way but using some other in-game activity - trading. It explains a lot of things but it actually needs some checking because the trade system was rebalanced recently.

The last – and also “about hoarding wealth” guide is “Time is money” created by neong. This guide is quite informative and gives you a good overall view on getting rich with fun and efficiency. Also great work and composing, it is highly recommended for new players interested in some free roaming game style and not fond of quest or storyline running.