I picked it up. 

Like the idea, very interested in the game, tried the demo. However... I meet the system requirements yet the game runs awfully, FPS never goes higher than 25 (and that's on 1024x768). And the game takes foreever to launch. The main menu lags a lot too.

Shame that, i might've bought it if it worked well.

And it is supposedly coming to Xbox Live. Maybe. IF it comes to Live AND offers same console multiplayer (not bothering with random people over Live), i will get it. But as it is, on PC, i won't bother.

Gameplay impressions: Spellcasting is great, once you grasp the mechanics. Very innovative, standard Vancian Magic system (with or without mana) most games offers feels very weak after Magicka's magic.

Yea, we're pretty good friends with the Paradox guys (i.e. talk to them very regularly) and we're seeing what we can do to help them with Impulse::Reactor integration.

It would solve a lot of problems I suspect as IR doesn't require a client (i.e. no Steam or Impulse client required).

Honestly, I would put Magicka up there as a nominee for Game of the Year.

(The travesty that is still the net code aside.)

For its intended purpose and goal, it's an amazing game.

The marketing? Genius.

The gameplay? Dynamic, chaotic and fun.

The flavor? Teeth grindingly cheesy sometimes, yet oozing nerd cred.

The game/design/company's future? Wide open.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through the SP campaign (since MP is spotty at best) and while it's not the deepest game in the world, I've enjoyed every minute of it, even the obscenely demanding boss fights. I love that there's always at least one way to completely cheese the system, and the devs are ok with that.

That said, here's some fun facts.

Magicka has been known to use 35 to 40kb/sec of upload to run a multiplayer game. For us, that's the main reason we haven't been able to play. Magcka taxes the **** out of your internet connection. (And your memory, apparently.) On release day, some of us had no less than 4 copies of Magicka running, because the code wasn't there for the game to close itself.

I guess the game started as another one of those "design a game" contents, and has been steadily developed over several years.

It's a crazy little game. And damn me if it isn't fun too.

We had a ritual on release day. No one could wear the hats. Any time we had any connection problem in the lobby, everyone had to close their game, check their TM and close all copies of Magicka before we tried to form another lobby. We had hosts running DMZ and port forwarding the game.

We were on the verge of sacrificing chickens when MP actually managed to work for an hour.

Since release day we haven't been able to run a game yet that doesn't desync by 20+ seconds in the first level. So we're pretty sure it's not the multiple copy thing...it's just the atrocious bandwidth usage.

Paradox =/= Arrowhead.

Swedish?  You sure its not Canadian, eh?

This just in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2DsoiA54Y

It... Ther.. Wh... I got nothing.

Magicka Vietnam.

Any news on Magicka coming to Impulse?

The Cynical Brit aka TotalHalibut has number of game play videos up and running on Youtube. Search for "Magicka TotalHalibut"

Me? Well, it has friendly fire. For me a NO! Bet the AI spends half its time nuking itself.

Edit: Well, after watching videos I will give this one a try. By the time it gets onto Impulse the remaining tech problems should be solved. And it is a bright and humorous game! This is a college project that got out of hand and became a real game. What a creative bunch of people! I mean, look what they're doing next!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCFtiO5j97M Watching this 1 minute video is required! No exceptions!

That's correct. Shame, but they have to look at the cost of supporting another version vs the number of new sales it would create. As a multiplayer game the fracturing of the community is also a problem, because people will have to buy it from the same place to play together and that can create some very unhappy users when they don't know that before buying.