Game News Gothic III NA publisher confirmed

[Spazmo]

Tags: Gothic III; Piranha Bytes

After Atari completely bungled the release of Gothic II in North America and never bothered to release the expansion, Night of the Raven, it was unlikely developer Piranha Bytes would go back to the same company. This time around, they've partnered with Aspyr Media to release G3 in North America (<a href=http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=62467>story at Blue's</a>:<blockquote>AUSTIN, TX (November 30, 2005) - Aspyr Media today announced it has acquired the rights from JoWood to publish and distribute Gothic III in North America. As the third part of this globally successful role-playing saga, Gothic III offers players a nonlinear, open-ended role-playing game with an enthralling story that presents an extremely detailed simulation of nature and human behavior. Developed by Germany’s Piranha Bytes/Pluto13, Gothic III will be released in the first quarter of 2006 for the PC at a SRP of $39.99.</blockquote>Aspyr is also releasing Gothic II Gold, which includes the G2 expansion, so check it out if you've been wondering what Germany's been raving about.
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[Jaesun]

I wish in the Gold Version they would have included Gothic I, Gothic II and NotR.

But finally getting NotR for the US is good.

 

[Zomg]

I wish in the Gold Version they would have included Gothic I, Gothic II and NotR.

No kidding. I could also go for Gothic 1 in the Gothic 2 engine - the assets seem basically identical except the UI is superior in 2.

 

[jiujitsu]

I've been playing Gothic 1/2/gold for around two months. Back to back to back to back to back. I'm currently playing G2 Gold as a Fire Mage.

 

[MrSmileyFaceDude]

Wow, first quarter! Sweet!

 

[FrancoTAU]

Wow, first quarter! Sweet!

Well, at least we know we're getting one RPG next year! :-P

 

[LlamaGod]

this new publisher > atari's stupid ass

 

[Gorath]

Wow, first quarter! Sweet!

Q1? If JoWooD only had told Koch Media / Deep Silver ...

 

[DarkSign]

this new publisher > atari's stupid ass

Having dealt with Francois Masciopinto and his underlings, if they are any indication about the rest of Atari...a) Atari is insanely terrible at everything b) they have the business sense of a grubworm...and not even a freakin' cool radioactive grubworm.

Let's hope they continue their fine tradtion of operating losses

 

[Morgoth]

Forget this Q1 shit.... Jowood sucks at release date predictions.
A few months ago some German print magazines, one of them GameStar (teh biggest), got the chance to "play" an actual version of the game and talked a little with the devs... The realistic conclusion of all editors was that this game could never hit the Q1 release date...it's just too unfinished. More likely to be a late summer/Fall release.

 

[Claw]

Well, at the time of the GameStar article, it sounded like they had almost finished the engine and just begun thinking about the game.