Nordic Games has teamed up with Piranha Bytes to work on their first collaborative and new project: ELEX. This open-world RPG is scheduled to release in Winter 2016/2017 on PC and current gen console platforms.
According to the press release, ELEX is the most ambitious project for Piranha Bytes and Nordic Games to date.
Reinhard Pollice Business & Product Development Director at Nordic Games, said:
“To say we are excited to see this new project unfold in the hands of Piranha Bytes is an understatement. ELEX is going to be edgy, dark, uncompromising, complex, and we love it already. We will be premiering a vertical slice build at Gamescom 2015, more info will be released in due time.”
Björn Pankratz, Game Director at Piranha Bytes, added:
“Apart from being enthusiastic about the cooperation with Nordic Games, it is great to know, that we will have ample creative freedom with ELEX, which is a very important factor for us. We can’t wait to show you a completely new game experience with a fresh setting, new assets and plenty of possibilities.”
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic science fantasy universe that puts players into a huge, seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
Nordic Games and Piranha Bytes will show off ELEX at this year’s Gamescom.
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Better you change the title from “creators of Risen” to “creators of Gothic” 😉
Seeing their output in the last 10 years, “creators of Risen” is more honest.
The creators of Gothic are long-gone from PB, as evidenced by their last games.
hope it is more Gothic than Risen. glad they moved on from Risen. how did they manage to make 3 Risen games is way beyond me. if you want a pirate themed game go play Assassin’s Creed 3,4 or Rogue those are the best modern pirate themed game you can find imo. (as funny as it is cause Assassin’s Creed should be about assassinating but that part is weak…)
The first Risen was still very Gothic-esque. I mean, there were pirates in the game, but they still fit the medieval Europe setting (besides, Gothic 2 had pirates as well).
that is why the first Risen is the best one in the series, and yet it is not Gothic and that is my point.
creators of risen?… i stop at there
Gothic 1 – 2 were awesome, 3 was really good after the community patches, risen was great, risen 2 sucked and risen 3 was pretty good.
gothic were amazing!
Probably another Shovelware.
Sounds good, Love Piranha Bytes games.
Should have put from the creators of Gothic, the Risen games werent really that good.
If someone are interested, the core “old timers” from Piranha Bytes started a new studio called Piranha Bytes Red (including the “father” of the Gothic series – Michael Hoge and the composer Kai Rosenkranz). They making a new game called Spacetime.
Judging from what I read it’s like Mass Effect + Gothic, a space exploration RPG. The game is based on Unreal Engine 4, and we will see it most likely somewhat after 2016-2017.
Cool, then we will be expectantly looking forward to it.