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Gothic 1 Remake is Out Now! Welcome to the Colony! Barcelona, Spain / Vienna, Austria - June 5th, 2026: Gothic 1 Remake is available now on PC, PlayStation®5 and Xbox Series X|S, bringing one of the most beloved cult RPGs of the early 2000s back to life. Gothic 1 Remake has been
Embracer Group is once again doing sterling work to demonstrate the perils of consolidation. Piranha Bytes, who are one of well over a hundred studios that Embracer bought up in recent years, today posted a statement on Xitter saying "Don't write us off yet!". The statement goes
Essen, Germany / Vienna, Austria - March 1st, 2022: Get ready! Starting today, players around the globe can become the hero of Magalan. Science-Fantasy-RPG ELEX II is launching today for PC and consoles, offering a vibrant open world to explore including five major factions each
Essen, Germany / Vienna, Austria - January 11th, 2022: Essen, Germany / Vienna, Austria - January 11th, 2022: The invasion has begun! An enemy force has landed on Magalan, bringing death and destruction to the planet and all its inhabitants. There’s only one way to stop them; fig
Piranha Bytes are returning to their post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy world with Elex 2 , announced today. The sequel to their 2017 RPG will continue the story of Jax, trying to reuinite factions against a new threat and all that. Point is: yes, you still have a jetpack. Check out th
Essen, Germany / Vienna, Austria - June 15th, 2021: Probably the best-kept secret is finally getting revealed: The next Piranha Bytes Game is indeed ELEX II. Surprise! The planet Magalan has seen some rather peaceful years after the Events of ELEX I: old factions have been vanqui
Is it a Gothic Remake? Not yet, but it can become one: THQ Nordic releases playable prototype on Steam, asks for the player's opinion Barcelona, Spain / Vienna, Austria, December 13th, 2019: „Welcome to the colony!“ – how is it possible that 18 years have passed since we first he
THQ Nordic continue to hoover up studios and games that make many go “Oh huh, yeah, they could be neat,” today announcing they’ve bought Piranha Bytes. They’re the German studio who created Gothic , Risen , and Elex, three open-world RPG series with varying degrees of promise and
THQ Nordic has acquired Gothic creator Piranha Bytes, and with it the IP rights to Gothic, Risen and Elex. The two companies have worked together before - THQ Nordic having been the publisher of Elex (2017), which was a bit ropey but charming nonetheless (a little like Piranha By
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THQ Nordic , publishers of the Darksiders games and recent jankfest Elex , have bought Koch Media, the companies have announced . Koch are the father-company of Deep Silver, who publish games like Saints Row , Metro , Dead Island , and Homefront: The Revolution . That means THQ N
Update December 20th 2017 Changelog New Difficulty Settings: - Player Damage: damage dealt by the player. - Opponent Damage: damage dealt by your Opponents. - Stamina cost: modifies the stamina cost for your actions. Engine: - Added FXAA T2x and SMAA T2x anti-aliasing techniques
Update December 20th 2017 Changelog New Difficulty Settings: - Player Damage: damage dealt by the player. - Opponent Damage: damage dealt by your Opponents. - Stamina cost: modifies the stamina cost for your actions. Engine: - Added FXAA T2x and SMAA T2x anti-aliasing techniques
Update October 27th 2017 Changelog Engine - Crash fix for systems with more than 16 logical CPU cores. - If savegame limit is reached, “Create new savegame” is hidden. (limit is 99) - Fixed saving for all Windows user. - Fixed some freezes in tutorials. The tutorial won't be show
Update October 27th 2017 Changelog Engine - Crash fix for systems with more than 16 logical CPU cores. - If savegame limit is reached, “Create new savegame” is hidden. (limit is 99) - Fixed saving for all Windows user. - Fixed some freezes in tutorials. The tutorial won't be show
Magalan – a planet that sounds like the name of an early 80s high street shop that would have rented you a telly – has been ravaged by some evil space goop or other, turning a once Earth-like civilisation into warring bands of Character Classes, addicted to Blue Space Goop and al
People, people of Earth, for the second week in a row GTA V isn’t in the Steam Charts! And for the first time in human history, this week nor is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive! What’s happened? I’ll tell you what’s happened. Everyone’s got a copy now. Phew. So instead, here are
From the first Gothic games through to Risen, German studio Piranha Bytes have made fantasy RPGs. Today that changes with the launch of Elex , taking the open-world RPG antics to a post-apocalyptic with jetpacks and guns. Oh okay, it is a little bit fantasy still, with technomagi
Dear ELEX fans, we are proud and happy to announce that ELEX is now available here on Steam We have also added some Digital Extras if you are interested in Soundtrack, Artbook and Making Of: Have fun, enjoy and stay tuned Piranha Bytes & THQ Nordic