Piranha Bytes

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Piranha Bytes

Type	Public
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Ruhrgebiet, Germany
Key people	Michael Rüve, managing director Michael Hoge, project director Björn Pankratz, project director
Industry	Interactive entertainment
Website	www.piranha-bytes.com

Piranha Bytes is a German computer game developer known for their Gothic computer role-playing game series. Formerly the name of a now defunct company, the registered trademark and label "Piranha Bytes" was transferred during a management buyout. The company's legal name is now Pluto 13 GmbH.

After disagreements, Piranha Bytes split from JoWooD, their publisher at the time. Due to a contract between the two companies, JoWooD retained some rights to the Gothic name and to current and future games released under this trademark. The specifics of this contract remain confidential.^[1]

Until these events, the titles in the Gothic series were the only games Piranha Bytes had produced. They have since announced a new game under the working title RPB.^[2]

[edit] Games

Gothic (2001)
Gothic II (2002)
- Gothic II: The Night of the Raven expansion pack (2003, German & 2005, English)
Gothic 3 (2006)
RPB (TBA)

[edit] References

^ Pluto 13 (2007-06-06). Rights to „Gothic ®“ (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-09-21. “Specific rights to already or yet to be published games [...] were contractually granted to JoWooD [...] The same applies to [...] the trademark “GOTHIC”. These contracts are extensive and confidential.”
^ geschrieben von Rashnu (2007-08-23). [Games Convention] Further Details About RPB. Retrieved on 2007-09-21. “Mike Hoge [...] Björn Pankratz [...] and Kai Rosenkranz [...] gave away further details about the new roleplaying game developed by Piranha Bytes.”