Everything announced at THQ Nordic Showcase 2024: Wreckfest 2, Gothic, and more

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While most major video game showcases tend to happen in June, we just got one more to kick off August. THQ Nordic held its annual digital showcase focusing on a handful of the publisher’s upcoming games.

The broadcast takes place ahead of this year’s Gamescom, where THQ Nordic will be demoing several of the projects shown during today’s showcase. While the show wasn’t jam-packed with announcements, it did provide a deep dive into five games, including the newly announced Wreckfest 2 and the upcoming Gothic remake. Ahead of the show, Digital Trends attended a pre-briefing event and learned more details on each title. Here’s everything that was revealed at THQ Nordic’s 2024 Showcase.

Wreckfest 2 brings more customization

The biggest surprise of the showcase was the reveal of Wreckfest 2. The arcade-style racing game is getting a sequel that promises more chaotic driving. It’s being built in a new iteration of the ROMU engine and comes with several new features. The biggest draw is a new customization suite that lets players painstakingly design their liveries, part by part. A gameplay video showed a player spraying rust marks on a car and decking it out with decals. THQ Nordic says that players will be able to share their creations, too.

Aside from that big feature, we know that Wreckfest 2 will feature multiple race modes as a well as a career mode. It will get modding support and feature regular content updates. It doesn’t have a release window or specific platforms at the moment, but it’s set to launch on PC alongside unspecified consoles.

Gothic 1 Remake gets lots of improvements

We got a closer look at Gothic 1 Remake, which will bring a 2001 RPG classic back to life — and it’s doing that in impressive fashion based on what we saw. An overview trailer recappedGothic‘s story and emphasized its reactive world, all while showing off its Unreal Engine 5 glow-up. We also got a glimpse at the remake’s modernized