[Article] Arcania - Fall of Setarrif: Trailer, Screenshots, Reviews
13.11.2011 um 21:47
Nordic Games has released Arcania - Fall of Setarrif on the 25th of october. To watch the Launch Trailer, see below. To view Screenshots and read reviews follow the links. Arcania - Fall of Setarrif is available on Steam.
[Official] Arcania: Fall of Setarrif - Release on October 25th 2011
23.09.2011 um 00:24
A long time the future for the already completed Arcania add-on Fall of Setarrif was unclear. The probability for a release seemed to be nearly equal to 0%. But now Nordic Games announced the release date for the long delayed game. The stand-alone expansion pack will be available on October 25th 2011 from all major digital retailers. Apparently it will be available for download only, except in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it will retail for EUR 14.99. The playtime is estimated between 4 and 8 hours.
Additionally new Screenshots are available in our gallery
As we reported two month ago, significant parts of the insolvent publisher JoWooD were bought by a swedish company. The plan was to reboot lots of the JoWooD games and communities. Now JoWooD became a wholly owned label of the newly founded Nordic Games GmbH. The company is located in Austria to maintain business activities.
Right now the JoWooD websites and forums where shut down. During the next weeks new websites will be created and launched. As explained in the press release, all old forum threads and data files will be included in the re-launch.
If this new development incdreases the chance for the release of the already finished Arcania add-on is unknown.
[Article] Wingefors Invest from Sweden buys JoWood
09.06.2011 um 22:56
Insolvency administrator Helmut Platzgummer told APA that the Swedish company bought signifcant parts of JoWood.
The idea is to continue the business activities in a reduced form. For the JoWood employees there will be no guarantees.
The Swedish will take control over JoWood through the daughter company Game Outlet. A major part of JoWood Austria and 95% of the Romanian daughter company Quantic LAB SRL will be acquired.
JoWood\'s new owner Game Outlet was founded in 2004. The company sells more than six million computer games each year.
[Article] JoWood's Stefan Berger on the rights to Gothic
27.05.2011 um 19:40
PC Games held an interview with Stefan Berger, manager from JoWood. They also asked him about the Gothic-rights:
PC Games: According to Piranha Bytes the brand Gothic will soon be returned to the studio. Can you confirm this?
Stefan Berger: There are contracts, which have their validity, that the company JoWood can publish Gothic 4 plus an addon, and that existing products can be kept on the market within a certain time span. This contract will certainly be kept, possibly even by a new partner, who will buy the assets (brand, software, etc). A Gothic 5 and further versions will belong to the developer Piranha Bytes. This however was agreed upon already some years ago, so nothing new comes out of the bankruptcy of JoWood. Until recently, this theme was simply not brought up and elaborated upon.
[Article] JoWood to be sold until june at the latest
08.05.2011 um 20:13
The insolvency administrator of the game publisher JoWood hopes to sell the whole company in one piece until the end of june.
"We are on it, searching for options. Probably it will come to a sale of the company as a whole, which is the goal", Helmut Platzgummer told the Austrian Press Agency (APA) on thursday. However, there are no parties with a concrete interest at the moment.
JoWood, publisher of the Gothic series, Arcania and other games has not survived. After negotiations with potential investors turned out to be unsuccessful, the company has withdrawn its application for the arrangement of a recapitalization plan.
As a consequence, JoWood will now face bankruptcy proceedings.
[Official] Decision on Jowood's capital reorganization plan postphoned until 5th of May
12.04.2011 um 21:37
Originally, there should have been a vote on Jowood's capital reorganization plan at the 7th of April. However, as Wiener Börse News reports, negotiations with potential investors were still ongoing at the time. Thus, it was decided to give JoWood time until the 5th of May.
[Official] Arcania addon Fall of Setarrif postphoned
31.03.2011 um 20:45
The addon Fall of Setarrif will not be released yet. There seems to be a conflict about the rights to the game with BVT Fund. The BVT Fund financed the main game Arcania.
Arcania declared on its website that the release of the game has been put "on hold" until further notice.
[Official] Fall of Setariff: Official Homepage with Trailer, Screenshots and Artworks
03.03.2011 um 20:30
The standalone Add-on Fall of Setariff now has its own official homepage. At the moment it features some information on the game, a first trailer, screenshots and artworks. JoWood has set the official release date for Arcania Fall of Setarrif on the 25th of March.
