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