THQ Nordic has just announced the inclusion in his team of a new studio in Barcelona, Alkimia Interactive, who will now get to work on the release of a remake di Gothic, legendary fantasy RPG.
The aggregation operations of a team of RPG experts by THQ had already started last summer right in the heart of the Catalan city, in Spain. In fact, we already knew for over a year that THQ Nordic was working on a remake of Gothic, but now the news is that one has been created. study entirely dedicated to the purpose. In fact, the Alkimia Interactive office will be packed with developers passionate about fantasy just to revive the Gothic RPG series.
The first Gothic was born as action RPG nel 2001, by Piranha Bytes, a German development house. The game featured a world full of NPCs, bounded by a magical barrier: such an environment had to be one prigione where the inmates were forced to forced works to mine a particular magical metal, necessary for humans to win a war against the orcs.
However, something went wrong during the creation of this prison, and the magical barrier a dome which was to imprison only a delimited area has expanded to cover greater distances, including its own creators and city settlements. The story of Gothic begins here, between prisoner riots, impervious territories, religious and moral dilemmas, magic and sidearms, and a freedom to face the quests which in 2001 was almost utopia.
We strive to build Alkimia Interactive as a top-notch RPG studio. Our ambition is to become one of the best addresses for the development of basic PC and Console games in Southern Europe.
Reinhard Pollice, Head of the Studio of Alkimia Interactive
From the first Gothic then a series developed, ended with ArcaniA: Gothic 4 of 2011. The revival of this RPG would therefore be an ambitious revival of a franchise that had its glory in the early 2000s and that has almost been forgotten over time. The goal of the team assembled by THQ Nordic will be to give luster and quality at the resumption of Gothic. In the coming months we will already have a taste (ie some trailer) of the results of the hard work that Alkimia Interactive is facing.
