GamesRadar - Risen

Best of Risen: Brilliant landscape pictures (News)

Nov 18, 2009

Risen has some really nice landscape and dungeon areas where the underlying engine may shine with atmospheric pictures. PCGH assembled some of them showing the beauty of the RPG.

Risen mds_Modpack.exe Released (News)

Nov 16, 2009

The Risen ModStarter pack includes all currently existing mod's for this game.

Risen High- Res Texture Pack v1.0 Released (News)

Nov 8, 2009

All stone and wall textures were edited. All stairways, walls, floors, altars, ruins, stones, rocks and mountains got new textures with more details and were put in a high-resolution format, so they won't get blurry if you approach them.

Direct2Drive Top 10 Weekly Sales Chart, Oct 25-31 (News)

Nov 5, 2009

D2D has released their latest top ten weekly sales chart for the week ending on October 31.

Direct2Drive Top 10 Weekly Sales Chart, Oct 18-24 (News)

Oct 30, 2009

D2D has released their latest top ten sales chart for the week ending October 24.

Risen PC Demo Now Available in North America (News)

Oct 13, 2009

GCO: "Piranha Bytes today released the demo for the upcoming role-playing game, Risen in North America – offering players a chance to get a first impression on some of the adventures that are awaiting them on the island of Faranga before the game release."

Steam sales chart for the week ending the 10th of October. (News)

Oct 11, 2009

Crowbar Error 42 writes "It that time of the week again where we take a look at the top ten selling PC games on Valve's Steam service."

Risen PC Demo Now Available for Download (News)

Oct 10, 2009

PC gamers can now download the official demo for the upcoming RPG Risen directly from news10.net's The Game Guys.

Risen Update Released (News)

Oct 8, 2009

Piranha Bytes has released a new update for their RPG Risen, now available for download.

Risen Hotfix 1.01 is out (News)

Oct 8, 2009

Risen Hotfix 1.01 is out. It fixes the problems with Geforce 6 and Geforce 7 cards showing a foggy overlay when playing Risen.

Risen Tuning Tips: Activate Anti Aliasing, improve graphics and start the game faster (News)

Oct 7, 2009

PCGH has assembled some tuning tips for Risen. They explain how you can activate Anti Aliasing, skip the intro videos and optimize the graphics settings in the system files.

Risen - Cinematic teaser (Video)

Oct 5, 2009

From the developers of the Gothic Series comes this stellar dungeon crawler, taking place in a vibrant, detailed world with rock-solid gameplay.

Risen - Intro teaser (Video)

Oct 5, 2009

From the developers of the Gothic Series comes this stellar dungeon crawler, taking place in a vibrant, detailed world with rock-solid gameplay.

Risen: Maxed out graphics due to tweaks and downsampling (News)

Oct 5, 2009

Risen, the new RPG from the makers of Gothic 1-3 ist out. PCGH shows some screenshots with maxed out graphics based on downsampling FSAA (the game doesn't offer AA ingame) and modified ini (view range, details in the distance).

Risen Updated Demo Released (News)

Oct 4, 2009

Developer Piranha Bytes has released an updated demo for their gritty RPG Risen, now available for download. The original demo wasn't packed correctly, resulting in errors on some computers.

Steam sales chart for week ending 3rd of October (News)

Oct 4, 2009

Crowbar Error 42 writes "It that time of the week again where we take a look at the top ten selling PC games on Valve's Steam service."

Risen (Review)

Oct 2, 2009

Having spent a considerable amount of effort collecting every herb and mushroom we could find, we must confess that we began to question our sanity. The giant vultures, porcupines and killer butterflies that harassed us as we made our way across the island suddenly seemed a little suspicious.

Were they merely hallucinations? ...

Risen (Screenshots)

Oct 2, 2009

Risen: Demo released (News)

Oct 1, 2009

Risen Demo out now: PC Games published playable Demo of Piranha Bytes Risen.

Risen Pre-Purchase Deal on Steam (News)

Sep 29, 2009

Deep Silver's RPG Risen has been listed for pre-purchase on Steam, offering a discount to those who purchase the game before it's release on October 2.

Risen Has Gone Gold on PC (News)

Sep 29, 2009

GrE writes, "The latest RPG from Deep Silver, Risen, is ready for it's worldwide release on Friday, October 2nd. There is also an Xbox 360 version of Risen which will be released in Europe on Friday. Sadly, North American 360 gamers will have to wait until next year to play the game..."

Risen Cinematic Teaser Trailer (News)

Sep 25, 2009

Voodoo Extreme published new cinematic Teaser Trailer of upcoming Risen.

Risen Xbox 360 not delayed in Europe (News)

Sep 21, 2009

From Strategyinformer.com: "The Xbox 360 version of Risen was confirmed to have been delayed over the weekend, although Deep Silver has informed us this morning that the delay will only pertain to the North American market, and that the game would release on October 2nd, 2009 in Europe."

Risen PC Now Gold But Xbox 360 Delayed (News)

Sep 18, 2009

Piranha Bytes has announced today that their RPG Risen has indeed gone gold for the PC and will be released on October 2nd 2009.

GC 09: Koch Media booth tour (Video)

Aug 21, 2009

From the developers of the Gothic Series comes this stellar dungeon crawler, taking place in a vibrant, detailed world with rock-solid gameplay.

Risen Voice Talent Cast Revealed (News)

Aug 12, 2009

Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products, today confirms the A-list voice talent featuring in forthcoming RPG Risen.

RPG Banned In Australia, Sex And Drugs To Blame? (News)

Aug 11, 2009

Kotaku:

The new role-playing game from Gothic developer Piranha Bytes has been refused classification in Australia.

The Classification Board listing for Risen, a third-person RPG for PC and Xbox 360, was updated late yesterday with an RC rating. No reasons were given as to why the game has been refused classification.

UPDATE: A spokesperson for Risen's Australian distributor Madman Interactive has told us that the Classification Board felt that the game contained "sexual activity and drug use related to incentives or rewards." That's an instant ban right there. Madman are considering all their options but have yet to decide whether they will appeal the decision or seek to edit the game to suit an MA15+ rating.

Gimli, Gollum and Pratchett in Risen (News)

Aug 10, 2009

Polish site Polygamia.pl has confirmed that the list of Risen voice actors posted at IMDb is in fact correct, and includes John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis and Lena Headey. We also know that the game's dialogues were written by Rhianna Pratchett, James Leach and Andrew S. Walsh.

Google translated version in the credit URL.

Gothic 4 vs. Risen screens comparison (News)

Aug 2, 2009

Side by side comparison between Risen and Gothic 4(Arcania: A Gothic Tale)

Risen: System requirements officially revealed (News)

Jul 30, 2009

Official System Requirements of Risen have been revealed. Apparently a 2.0 GHz CPU and a Shader Model 3.0 GPU are required. 3.0 GHz Dual Core and GeForce 8800 - ATI Radeon HD 2900 are recommended.

Risen hits stores on October 2nd for PC and Xbox 360 (News)

Jul 2, 2009

Piranha Bytes announced today that Risen will be released internationally on October 2nd for the Xbox 360 and PC.

Risen: Release date confirmed (News)

Jun 22, 2009

October 2, 2009 has been confirmed as Risen release date in Germany. Simultaneous worldwide release is targeted but has not been confirmed yet.

Risen Screenshots (News)

Apr 9, 2009

Risen for the Xbox 360 is an epic role-playing game set in a medieval world on a volcanic Mediterranean island. The Risen story unfolds over four chapters and will offer multiple ways to develop the story by his own actions and decisions.

Teamxbox brings you the first screenshots of the Xbox 360 version of the game.

5 things we learned about Risen despite not speaking German (Preview)

Apr 6, 2009

Writing about video games isn't always as easy as it looks. Sometimes you get distracted, sometimes you want to just play the damned things, and sometimes... well, sometimes you walk into the demo of a German game being given to a bunch of German press folks by a German developer speaking entirely in German. Which we don’t speak. ...