Aside from Diablo 3, all's been pretty hush on the hack-n-slash front of late

Aside from Diablo 2 Items, all's been pretty hush on the hack-n-slash front of late, but today the drought's been provisionally lifted per Sega's 957MB PC-only Space Siege demo. Make that Gas Powered Games' Space Siege demo, actually -- published by Sega, but still very much from the desk of Chris Taylor, i.e. the brains behind Total Annihilation (great), Dungeon Siege (alright), Dungeon Siege 2 (much better), and Supreme Commander (slightly better than alright).

Color me cautiously optimistic (seems like the case with everything anymore), but I have high hopes (if not expectations). It's been long enough since I played a really decent hack-and-slash on the PC -- the last would've been Titan Quest -- and I could care less whether it's derivative as long as it's progressively interesting. Diablo 2 Items bored the stuffin' out of me, whereas Dungeon Siege 2, well, didn't. Fingers crossed that'll be the case when Space Siege ships in exactly two weeks on August 12th for fifty bucks.