South Park: Snow Day and everything else from today's THQ Nordic showcase

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THQ Nordic's annual digital showcase has been and gone for another year, and while there were plenty of familiar faces returning from 2022's outing, it did bring a couple of new reveals. The publisher's South Park game finally got a proper unveiling in the form of Snow Day, for instance, and was followed by announcements for the likes of Titan Quest 2 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. For a full recap of everything shown, do read on.

Eschewing the cartoon's classic construction paper looks in favour of boring old 3D, South Park: Snow Day is a co-op adventure that sees up to four players — in the roles of Cartman, Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, naturally — enjoying their day away from school by battling through the snow-blanketed South Park streets on a quest to save the world. There's no release date for this one yet (expect to read this a lot as the recap presses on), but it's coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch some time next year.

Developer Alkimia Interactive's remake of Piranha Bytes' cult-classic 2001 action-RPG, Gothic, first surfaced as a playable teaser back in 2019, generating enough interest among players that THQ Nordic eventually agreed to greenlight a complete remake. Unsurprisingly, the core remains the same in this new version — once again, players take control of a convicted prisoner who finds himself on a quest across a dangerous medieval fantasy realm — but there are plenty of modern-day niceties, some of which you'll see in Gothic's latest trailer. There's still no word of a release date for the remake, but it's coming to PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

THQ Nordic's slate of rejuvenated oldies continues with Outcast: A New Beginning, the sequel to Appeal Studios'