Surprisingly, THQ Nordic has announced in a press release that the publisher acquired Elex developer Piranha Bytes. Thus Piranha Bytes becomes a subsidiary of THQ Nordic. All brands of Piranha Bytes, i.e. Gothic, Risen and Elex, are now owned by THQ Nordic. However, the acquisition isn't supposed to result in any major changes. Piranha Bytes will continue to develop in Essen, there should be no personnel changes and Nordic promises Piranha Bytes full creative freedom for the future. Elex 2 is also briefly mentioned in the press release. There it says in a semi-official comment: "Have a guess."

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Update: As you likely noticed by now, this news is an April Fool joke of course. Risen 4 hasn't been announced and we won't close the website. But maybe we'll find out what PB's next game actually is in the course of this year...

Surprisingly, Piranha Bytes and THQ Nordic announced the development of Risen 4 - Return to Faranga today. As the title already indicates, in the new game you will return to the island from the first series installment. In the process you will reprise the role of the nameless hero from Risen 1 and 2, who only had a short cameo in Risen 3. And as the first screenshots show, you will again spent a lot of time in the underground temples and dungeons populated by monsters. But the surface is going to be a lot more volcanic this time. Today we're not getting to see that though.

22.12.2018 21:00

Just before Christmas, Elex is greatly reduced: both at GOG - if you prefer to buy the game DRM-free - and on Steam Piranha Bytes latest RPG currently costs only about $20/20€, a discount of 60%. On GOG the offer ends on January 3rd at 11:59pm, on Steam it ends on the same day at 7pm.

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21.06.2018 21:00

Elex on Steam is currently 50% off due to the annual Steam Summer Sale taking place. Other offers include the Gothic and Risen series for a 66 to 80 percent lower price, depending on the game. The Steam Summer Sale will last until 5th July.

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The price of Elex on Steam is currently reduced by 50% due to Midweek Madness. The offer is valid until this Friday, 19:00 CET.

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As THQ Nordic announce in a press release, the console patch that was due since december is finally being released now. The patch includes the same improvements as the 3 months old patch for PC and also enhances the resolution on PS4 Pro and Xbox One X.

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Originally, the huge patch that was released before christmas for PC should also have been released for PS4 and Xbox One for quite some time already, including graphical improvements for PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. That's how Publisher THQ Nordic announced it, anyway. But so far console players have come away empty-handed, there's no trace of a patch.

Now Michael Rüve from Piranha Bytes commented on this issue in our forums. According to him, Piranha Bytes have encountered console-specific issues in addition to the already long certification process by Sony and Microsoft, and don't know a date for the patch themselves. We'll keep you up to date if further details or an exact release date are communicated. Until then, waiting is the only thing we can do.

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11.01.2018 13:00

Yesterday a small patch with version numbers 1.0.2955 (Gog) or 1.0.2956 (Steam) respectively, was released. However, because of a lack of patch notes we're unable to tell which changes the patch includes. According to reports from the community though, the SMAA T2x anti-aliasing option works now, while other users report about crashes they didn't have before. If there'll be any news about the patch, we will update this news.

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Just before christmas, Piranha Bytes has released another patch for Elex, which is roughly 2.5GB in size. The patch with version number 1.0.2946.0 (Steam) fixes plenty of bugs and implements new difficulty settings.

When the patch will hit Gog or the consoles is unknown at the moment though. You can find the full patch notes on Steam or in this news by clicking on "Read more"!

Update: The patch now has been released on Gog.com as well, and according to german gaming website 4players on consoles, too. There, it also enhances the resolution or the graphical fidelity, depending on the display used. We have updated the changelog accordingly.

Our dear partner site Piranha Bytes Italia has released the english translation of their Elex review a couple of days ago. They thoroughly tested the game and found many strengths, but also weaknesses in it.

You just need to be patient and eager to explore a peculiar game system, pretty different from other recent games, without expecting to fully grasp it without effort. Maybe this is the main problem of Elex: it was created for an endangered species of gamers, who are supposed to accept its flaws and value its undeniable qualities and “freshness”, even though it is a typical Piranha Bytes‘ product.

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