Gothic

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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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Gothic News

»	Dec 14, 2011 Risen 2 Release Date Confirmed Publisher Deep Silver and developer Piranha Bytes (best known for the RPG series, Gothic) have uncovered the launch date for their forthcoming co-project, Risen 2: Dark Waters. » MORE

»	Oct 25, 2011 Arcania: Fall of Setarrif is Here Now, I'm not sure how many of you actually found this game fun, but here's the news anyway. JoWooD Productions and Spellbound release a standalone expansion for the action RPG Arcania: Gothic 4. » MORE

»	May 12, 2011 New Risen 2 Screenshots Deep Silver and Gothic series creator Piranha Bytes have released brand new screenshots from the upcoming RPG, Risen. Check out the screens below:... » MORE

»	Apr 29, 2011 Disciples 3: Resurrection Announced, Screens Revealed Kalypso Media and Akella have teamed up once again to deliver a new installment in the Disciples series. Disciples 3: Resurrection offers a new race which ascends to power - the ruthless and merciless Undead Hordes. » MORE

»	Feb 21, 2011 Risen 2: Dark Waters Uncovered Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes today announced Risen 2: Dark Waters, the sequel to the solid RPG, Risen. Well, I say solid, because it really is a solid RPG and one that I certainly value more than Gothic 4. » MORE

»	Dec 04, 2010 Evenin '10 In case you've missed them, here are this week's reviews once again. All RPGs by the way, but none of them, as it turns out lived up to our expectations. » MORE

»	Dec 03, 2010 Arcania: Gothic 4 Another Gothic game has arrived. This one is brought to you by Spellbound (not the creators of the previous Gothic games. Here's a quick snippet from the article: The skill system is another weak link in the Gothic 4's chain. » MORE

»	Nov 23, 2010 Arcania: Gothic 4 Patch Released The latest patch for Arcania: Gothic 4 features including new gameplay dynamics and fixes a variety of performance issues for English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish editions of the game. » MORE

»	Sep 21, 2010 Arcania: Gothic 4 DRM Explained The action RPG series, Gothic, is getting a new installment next month - Arcania: Gothic4. JoWooD, BVT Group and DreamCatcher gives us more info on how they plan to incorporate the DRM in the upcoming multiplatform game. » MORE

»	Sep 04, 2010 Arcania: Gothic 4 PC/360 Demo Dated Publisher JoWood confirms that a playable demo for Arcania: Gothic 4 is gonna be available for Xbox 360 and PC platforms on September 24, 2010. Check out more info and media from Gothic 4 right this way. » MORE

»	Aug 21, 2010 Gamescom 2010 Media Recap Once again, folks, here's all the media that arrived during this year's Gamescom. You might wanna browse through all of it again, just in case you missed anything. » MORE

»	Aug 20, 2010 Risen 2 Official The sequel to the 3rd-person action RPG Risen has been announced during Gamecom 2010. Deep Silver officially confirmed that they are co-working with Piranha Bytes to bring Risen 2 to life. » MORE

»	Aug 19, 2010 Gamescom 2010 Media: Mafia 2, Gothic 4 & More First off, let's have a look at the brand new trailer for ArcaniA: Gothic 4: And now... the Raving Rabbids visit Julius Caesar: More stuff from the Gamescom 2010 just arrived. » MORE

»	Apr 26, 2010 Arcania: A Gothic Tale Screenshots After last year's action RPG Risen (from Piranha Bytes), gamers will get a chance to dive into another Gothic-like world. Unlike Risen this one, of course, uses the Gothic setting and is being developed by a different team - namely Spellbound. » MORE

»	Mar 29, 2010 Mornin '10 I really hope these guys know what they're doing. Apart from a few titles which I care about, Disciples III seems to be the only game that rekindles my old gaming spark - rarely does a modern-day game manage to do so. » MORE

»	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

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