Arcania: Gothic 4, otherwise known as Arcania: A Gothic Tale, is a 3rd person RPG and marks the first outing in the Gothic series to be helmed by new developer Spellbound. Piranha Bytes developed the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The sadly underappreciated Gothic role-playing series has been around since 2001 and has told the tale of a soft-spoken nameless hero who ventures ...

An expansion pack, titled Fall of Setarrif, for ArcaniA: Gothic 4 is in the pipeline, developer Spellbound Entertainment and publisher DreamCatcher announced today. Fall of Setarrif will pack an ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Gothic franchise has forever been defined by free-roaming open-world gameplay, sweeping story and settings, and bugs. Lots of bugs. Publisher ...

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Four titles in, the Gothic series has worked hard to earn a legion of dedicated fans – mainly in Europe, but steadily growing in reputation worldwide. However, the series has never managed to attain ...

Gothic 4 is set 10 years after the last installment and situated on multiple southern islands, each with unique fauna & flora according to various climate zones. The game will feature a day & night ...

This post has not been edited by the GamesBeat staff. Opinions by GamesBeat community writers do not necessarily reflect those of the staff. An ugly, broken mess that somehow manages to be fun. When I ...

It's been a while since the North American release of Gothic 3, and you still see threads pop up on message boards asking if it's playable yet. The fact that it was released in a messy state is no ...

In the time-honoured RPG tradition, I've been collecting swords. Not to use, necessarily – Arcania's endless kill-and-loot cycle so rarely throws up compelling gear, it's almost a joke – but to sell.

A lot of these problems affect other hardcore RPGs. Indeed, fans of the Gothic series won't be shocked to hear of the atrocious voice acting or the relatively mindless fetch quests. They're staples ...