PCGamesHardware.de has put together a little feature that compares the graphical prowess of Piranha Bytes’ Risen to their previous title, Gothic 3. To be honest, Risen doesn’t really look a whole lot better.

The first several reviews of Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes’ Risen are in, but unfortunately they’re not nearly as favorable as we might have hoped. Resolution Magazine hits it with a 6/10: I suppose I’ll say this: there’s a lot of…

Deep Silver has released a 1.1 GB, multi-language demo of Risen, just one day shy of the game’s worldwide release.  An issue with the demo’s executable has caused some sites to pull it down, but you can still grab a (working?) copy on the official…

With less than 48 hours to go before Risen is available worldwide, Deep Silver has released another cinematic trailer that gives us a glimpse into “how the nameless protagonist becomes an influential hero who helps shape the fate of the…

The editors at NZGamer managed to get their hands on an early copy of Risen and have whipped up a quick hands-on preview of the RPG. Combat is entirely real time, with damage (etc) based on roll of the dice vs.…

Piranha Bytes’ official Risen website has been updated with yet another short story, and this time it’s titled “The Scribe”. He felt how the hands grew wet. The first beads of sweat shone on the forehead. Surely the first spots…

Deep Silver has updated their YouTube page with a second pre-rendered trailer for Piranha Bytes’ Risen. This one is pretty short, too, but at least it nearly breaks the one-minute mark. Look for Risen on store shelves this Friday.

The hardware savvy folks at PCGamesHardware.de have benchmarked Risen with several different video cards, including ATI’s new Radeon HD 5870. The setting of Risen is based upon the almost completely new developed DirectX 9 engine which is visually similar to…

Embedded within the thirty-fourth issue of PCGZine, one can find the very first English review of Piranha Bytes’ Risen. The overall score is an 84%, with these closing paragraphs: There are some minor niggles, like inconsistent visual performance and some…

Deep Silver has updated their YouTube page with a 41-second, pre-rendered trailer for Piranha Bytes’ Risen. Apparently this is just a portion of the entire video, so stay tuned for additional footage.