THQ Nordic revealed that it launched a new studio with Alkimia Interactive in order to create a remake of Gothic. For those who don’t know the franchise, Gothic was an incredible RPG series that had several games released during the 2000s. While the developers and publishers changed hands several times, THQ Nordic participated in some of these titles and ended up taking control of the series in 2011, after the last entry (Arcania: Gothic 4) kind of bombed in 2010. Since then, the series has been on the shelf for a decade, with only re-releases of previous titles being released. Everything changed this week when the company unveiled the new development studios, based in Barcelona, Spain. The company is currently in the process of hiring people to take on the new game, so don’t expect to see anything new about it in the years to come. However, it is good news to see that the franchise is being brought back to life. Here are some details from the team about what’s to come.
In the summer of 2020, the studio started operations and started to assemble a team of passionate RPG developers. Since then, the studio has opened 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 being the complete development of 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 revealed in the coming months.
“We strive to build Alkimia Interactive as a high-level RPG studio,” said Reinhard Pollice, Head of the studio at Alkimia Interactive. “Our ambition is to become one of the best addresses for the development of central PC / Console games in southern Europe.”