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GAME INFO publisher: Xicat Interactive developer: Piranha Bytes genre: Action Adventure MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS PII-400, 128MB RAM, 16MB 3D accelerator	ESRB rating: T homepage: www.piranha-bytes.com/ release date: Nov 23, 01 (released)

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DEMOS	size	date
demo	270MB	Sep 19, 01

PATCHES	size	date
v1.08k patch	4.8MB	Jan 09, 02

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»	Dec 25, 01 Gothic review There are a lot of elements that have to be fit into a consistent whole in order to produce a successful and appealing RPG title. If we start from the essence... » MORE

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»	Oct 20, 2009 Risen After so many years of working exclusively on the Gothic series, the dudes at Piranha Bytes return with a fresh IP. It's time for PC gamers to dive into the first single-player RPG in. » MORE

»	Jul 25, 2009 Mornin '09 2lions and I just went through our release dates section, hoping to find something remotely interesting and original. No luck. It's mostly newbie, generic-looking action games, franchise reboots and sequels. » MORE

»	Jun 09, 2009 Risen Shots Finally Show Some Action So far, Piranha Bytes mostly concatenated on showing the lush environments from their forthcoming RPG, Risen. This particular batch of new in-game screens shows a bit more action - so, you'll see characters, enemies and more. » MORE

»	Jun 11, 2009 Mornin '09 Beyond doubt, Diablo III just might be the only fucking game I'm sincerely looking forward to. Sure, I'm going to check out all the others that are coming our way, but Blizzard's Diablo III is the only one that stirs up the blood, if you get my drift. » MORE

»	May 12, 2009 New Risen Shots Piranha Bytes release new screenshots from their RPG, Risen. Check it out: click to view full gallery As most of you noticed already, this game borrows plenty of familiar elements from Piranha's Gothic games. » MORE

»	Apr 23, 2009 Arcania: A Gothic Tale Screens Arcania: A Gothic Tale seems to be coming along just fine. Take a look at the latest screenshots: click to view full gallery The game is in development at Spellbound and is slated for a winter 2009/2010 release. » MORE

»	Mar 14, 2009 New Risen Screenshots Back in December last year, Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes -- the makers of the Gothic series -- announced Risen, a role-playing game in development for PC and Xbox 360 platforms. » MORE

»	Dec 17, 2008 Batman Arkham Asylum Cast Official The promising new Batman game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, is currently in development for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. We've seen the recently released trailer and Eidos released preliminary info about the game. » MORE

»	Dec 10, 2008 Gothic Creators Working on Risen, First Screens Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes -- the makers of Gothic 1, 2 and 3 -- today officially announced Risen for the Xbox 360 and PC. This one's apparently targeted at a mature audience and is expected to ship in 2009. » MORE

Sep 30, 2008

Gothic 3 - Forsaken Gods Trailer
Just posted a trailer for JoWood Productions' Gothic 3 - Forsaken Gods, the upcoming expansion pack for the action role-playing game. As announced by JoWood back in April, Gothic 3 - Forsaken Gods is meant to bridge the gap between Gothic 3 and Gothic 4 (or rather Arcania: A Gothic Tale).

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»	Sep 08, 2008 Arcania: A Gothic Tale Teaser Trailer JoWood Productions announced a few months back that the official title for Gothic 4, the open world role-playing game, has been changed to Arcania: A Gothic Tale (Germans pick the funniest titles). » MORE

»	Aug 04, 2008 Blizzard Responds to Irritated Fans' Petition Following Blizzard's announcement of Diablo III, a bunch of hardcore nerdy-nerdy fans got together and initiated a petition in the hope of getting the developer's attention. » MORE

Jul 01, 2008

Unhappy Diablo Fans Start Petition
It appears that Blizzard's new art direction for Diablo III made certain fans of the franchise rather unhappy. They've decided to express their discontent with a petition that asks people to support the notion of a darker, more realistic art style, and not something that's, as they put it, so similar to World of Warcraft.

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»	May 19, 2008 Gothic 4 Title Changed So, anyway, JoWood's RPG won't carry the name Gothic 4: Arcania, like we were lead to believe. Instead they are calling it Arcania: A Gothic Tale (hm, that sounds slightly Uwe Boll-ish to me). » MORE

»	May 12, 2008 First Gothic 4 Screenshots If the initial reports are to be believed, Gothic 4: Arcania, the new installment in the open-world RPG series, will take place ten years after the previous game. » MORE

Apr 28, 2008

"Gothic 4: Arcania" Revealed
The scoop comes from German PC Games magazine via Tiscali Games. It's about the latest installment in the RPG series; Gothic. It appears that the game is called Gothic 4: Arcania and, as we've said many times before, it will be developed by Spellbound Entertainment.

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»	Apr 14, 2008 Gothic 3 Add-on Announced When Gothic 3 arrived, it was pretty much overshadowed by Bethesda's open-world RPG, Oblivion. In addition, it suffered from technical problems that were a major bummer, until they were fixed a few months after that is. » MORE

Mar 11, 2008

JoWood and Piranha Bytes Reunite
Settling all differences, JoWood Productions and Piranha Bytes (Pluto 13) announced that they will continue to cooperate on future projects. However, this won't have any affect on JoWooD Productions' fourth installment in the free-roam RPG series, Gothic.

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Jan 23, 2008

Devil May Cry 4 Demo Tomorrow
Apparently, there's something about gray-haired dudes with big gloves that's supposed to get you going, you know? (Santa fetish? - 2Lions) Capcom warns us to warm those broadband connections and get ready for the Devil May Cry 4 playable demo, which hits both the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow.

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»	Dec 07, 2007 DMC4 360 and PS3 Demo in Early 2008, Screens Galore The folks at Capcom just sent over an e-mail, confirming that the demo for their upcoming game Devil May Cry 4 is coming out in early 2008 and will be downloadable via both the PlayStastion Store and Xbox LIVE Marketplace. » MORE

»	Aug 23, 2007 GC 2007: JoWood Chooses Gothic 4 Developer More news coming via the Games Convention. This time, we've learned that publisher JoWooD named Spellbound Entertainment as the developer for Gothic 4. » MORE

»	Jun 18, 2007 Piranha Bytes Plans New Game According to this scoop, Piranha Bytes and publisher Deep Silver settled their differences have teamed up to work on a new project. Gothic devotees should know though, that this new project isn't related to the Gothic franchise. » MORE

May 23, 2007

JoWood Seeking New Developer for Gothic 4
Unfortunately for Gothic fans, Piranha Bytes, after disputes with JoWooD over the popular RPG license, has now been ditched. JoWood is presently on the lookout for a new development studio to make Gothic 4 for next-gen consoles and the PC.

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»	Apr 26, 2007 JoWooD to Invade Next-Gen Consoles JoWooD in their infinite wisdom has announced plans to port a bunch of their games, or rather to bring a bunch of their "commercially successful" properties to the next-gen consoles, the 360, PS3 and Wii. » MORE

»	Feb 06, 2007 More Games Tested With Vista ExtremeTech tried out more than 25 PC Games in Vista and have reported back with their impressions. Their tests covered World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2, Half-Life (Steam Games), Oblivion, F. » MORE

»	Jan 31, 2007 Neverwinter Nights 2 Patch Oh, goody, goody. I'm still actively playing this game (I would've got around to it sooner, but I got held up with Gothic 3). Anyhow, a thread posted over at the NWN forums has the info regarding a new edition of the 1. » MORE

»	Nov 14, 2006 Gothic 3, Eragon Ship to Stores Even more games has shipped! The North American version of Piranha Bytes' Gothic III is one of them: Gothic 3 is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and carries a SRP of $39. » MORE

»	Nov 10, 2006 Gothic 3 Demo JoWooD Productions, Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes unleash a 1GB single-player demo of Gothic 3 on the gaming world. I haven't tried it yet (nor do I intend to), but I hope it's the post patch 1. » MORE

»	Nov 08, 2006 Gothic 3 Demo Coming Friday US gamers will be happy to know that JoWooD, Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes plan to release a single-player demo for Gothic III this Friday. They call the demo "immense. » MORE

»	Oct 27, 2006 Gothic 3 US Date Announced Aspyr Media announces that Piranha Games' Gothic 3 would be shipping to North American retailers November 13, "ensuring that it lands on store shelves by November 20. » MORE

»	Oct 10, 2006 Gothic III Demo News PCGames.de offers confirmation that a demo of Gothic III is indeed coming. There is no word on what the planned language is, or when the demo is going to be released, but at least we know it's coming. » MORE

Oct 05, 2006

Rainbow Six Vegas (360) Demo News
Ubisoft announces today that in the build up to Rainbow Six Vegas' worldwide release in November (for the PC, PS3 and 360), they will be releasing a 360 demo exclusively this month as part of the December issue of Official Xbox Magazine in the U.

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Sep 27, 2006

Gothic III Goes Gold Again
Gothic 3 sets a new world record in going gold. JoWood once again shows how special they are. On the bright side, supposedly, the game is a lot less bug-infested now that it has gone gold again: Liezen, Österreich, 26th of September 2006; Thousands of fans have been shocked after the message: "Gothic 3 is not gold anymore".

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Sep 22, 2006

Gothic III Not Gold Yet
EvilAvatar is reporting that Gothic III, the long-awaited RPG sequel, has gone from gold to not-so-gold. Here's the blurb from the official site (which is down at the moment): On September 12th we have shipped a Goldmaster version of Gothic 3 for replication.

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»	Sep 13, 2006 Gothic III Gone Gold Great news for single-player RPG fans as Piranha Bytes announces that their next intallment in the Gothic series has gone gold. At 02:20 this morning Gothic 3 has been shipped to Sony Austria for replication. » MORE

»	Aug 18, 2006 New Gothic 3 Shots, Site Launched The folks from Aspyr send us half a dozen new Gothic 3 shots, along with word that they are launching a new Gothic 3 web site (Gothic3.aspyr.com). » MORE

»	Aug 09, 2006 Gothic 3 Dated Eurogamer is reporting that JoWooD and Deep Silver have pinpointed the date for their highly-anticipated RPG, Gothic 3. The game will appear in stores across Europe on October 13th. » MORE

»	Jul 06, 2006 Gothic III Drops StarForce Another game drops StarForce; this time it's Pyranha Bytes' Gothic III. They will use a copy protection thatll be "gentler" on the users. » MORE

Jul 04, 2006

Gothic 3, Call of Juarez Screenshots
New Independence Day shotage! First up we have brand new screens from Piranha Bytes' highly-anticipated RPG sequel, Gothic 3. And then when you're done gawking at those, you might want to check out these screenshots from Call of Juarez, the upcoming Western-themed shooter from Techland.

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»	Mar 13, 2006 Gothic III Delay Official Gothic III has been officially delayed in North America. Got this in my mail an hour ago: Aspyr Media today confirmed that Gothic III, the highly anticipated, epic role-playing game for PC, will land on North American store shelves this fall. » MORE

»	Mar 07, 2006 Gothic III Delayed Well OK, Elder Scrolls IV is just around the corner, which should make the news that Gothic III has been delayed far less painful for all you single-player RPG junkies. » MORE

»	Feb 01, 2006 New Gothic 3 Screenshots A few days ago, JoWood released six new screeshots from their upcoming RPG Gothic 3. Check 'em out right here. Looks decent enough. But I'd better not make any geeky comments, or 2lions will have my head. » MORE

Jan 26, 2006

IGN Dines with Uwe Boll
In case you were wondering how real gaming journalists do their job (not us quacks that is), you can head over to IGN and watch their "Dinner With Uwe Boll" video interview, where they are having this bizarre TV dinner with the German director, complete with red wine and a Gothic style candle.

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»	Sep 28, 2005 Even More Screenshots We've got even more screens for ya this evening: Gothic 3 Stranger » MORE

Aug 17, 2005

More Delays from JoWood
JoWood is delaying more games: Gothic 3 has been pushed back to 2006, as is the case with SpellForce 2. How this company is still operating is one of those great mysteries that very few people but those directly involved in its dealings are able to explain.

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»	Jul 15, 2005 Gothic 3 Screenshots More screenshot goodness for ya, kids. Three new shots from Gothic 3. This one is looking rather pretty, and I know those German boys are capable of producing addictive and balanced RPG gameplay, so the end result should be nice. » MORE

»	May 10, 2005 Gothic 3 Movie German developers Piranha Bytes have released a teaser trailer of their upcoming RPG sequel Gothic 3. One of the rare really good RPGs that I'd recommend to any serious RPG gamer. » MORE

»	May 02, 2005 Gothic 3 Site Live The official site for the third game in the Gothic series from Piranha Bytes has gone live, offering small screenshots from the game and enough info to be banned » MORE

»	Mar 31, 2005 Still Life Gold CGM is reporting that Still Life has gone gold. The Adventure Company has announced that Still Life, the crime/gothic themed adventure game from developer Microids, has gone gold and will ship to stores on April 14. » MORE

»	Mar 17, 2005 English Gothic 2 Demo Hey it only took them several freaking years to release it. And besides, Germans have an awful command of the English language - just like the Canadians (and if you flame me for this, you're just one big, dumb trout). » MORE

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