- Piranha Bytes
Infobox Company
company_name=Piranha Bytes
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company_type=Private
foundation=1997
location_city=Ruhrgebiet
location_country=GER
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key_people=Michael Rüve, managing director
Michael Hoge, project director
Björn Pankratz, project director
industry=Interactive entertainment
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homepage= [http://www.piranha-bytes.com/ 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 amanagement 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. [cite web|url = http://www.pluto13.de/docs/GothicRights-EN.pdf|title = Rights to „Gothic ®“|accessdate = 2007-09-21|author = Pluto 13|date = 2007-06-06|format = PDF|quote = Specific rights to already or yet to be published games [...] werecontractually granted to JoWooD [...] The same applies to [...] the trademark “GOTHIC”. These contracts are extensive and confidential.]Until these events, the titles in the "Gothic" series were the only games Piranha Bytes had produced. They have since announced a new game named Risen. [cite web
url = http://www.worldofpiranha.com/?section=newsdetail&id=28|title =[Games Convention] Further Details About RPB|accessdate = 2007-09-21|author = geschrieben von Rashnu|date = 2007-08-23|quote = Mike Hoge [...] Björn Pankratz [...] and Kai Rosenkranz [...] gave away further details about the new roleplaying game developed by Piranha Bytes.]Games
*"Gothic" (2001)
*"Gothic II " (2002)
**expansion pack (2003, German & 2005, English)
*"Gothic 3 " (2006)
*"Risen" (TBA)References
External links
* [http://www.piranha-bytes.com Games website]
* [http://www.pluto13.de Corporate website]
* [http://www.piranhaclub.eu International Fanclub Website]
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