THQ Nordic has revealed that they have launched a new studio with Alkimia Interactive with the aim of creating a remake of Gothic. For those who may not be aware of the franchise, Gothic was an amazing RPG series that made several games appear during the ’00s. While developers and publishers changed hands several times, THQ Nordic had a hand in some of the titles and eventually took over the series in 2011 after the last entry (Arcania: Goties 4) a bit bombed in 2010. Since then, the series has been on the shelf for a decade with only reissues of previous titles. That all changed this week when the company unveiled the new development studios, set up in Barcelona, Spain. The company is currently hiring people to tackle the new game, so you should not see anything new about it in the next few years. However, it’s cool news to see the franchise come to life again. Here are some details from the team on what’s to come.
In the summer of 2020, the studio will begin and bring together a team of passionate RPG developers. Since then, the studio has set up an office in the heart of Barcelona. The team is constantly growing and is still looking for developers to join the family. The team’s focus and ambition is to build high quality RPGs, with its first project fully developing the Gothic Remake for PC and Next-Gen consoles. Development is well underway and the first results of all the hard work the team has done will be announced in the next few months.
“We strive to build Alkimia Interactive as a first-class RPG studio,” he said. Reinhard Pollice, Studio Head by Alkimia Interactive. “Our ambition is to become one of the best addresses for the development of PC / Console core games in southern Europe.”