Publisher Jowood's recent history with the Gothic series of fantasy RPG titles has been...interesting, to say the least. The last game in the series, Gothic 3, was developed by Piranha Bytes (now known as Pluto 13) but apparently Jowood was not happy with the final product when it was released in the fall of 2006. In May 2007 Jowood announced it was severing their ties with Pluto 13 and later announced that the next game in the series, Gothic 4, would be created by another developer, Spellbound Entertainment.

While there has been no release date mentioned yet for Gothic 4, Jowood has now announced that there will be an expansion pack for Gothic 3 this fall. The expansion is subtitled Forsaken Gods and according to the press release "will answer many open questions and guarantee a seamless step to Gothic 4." The developer of the expansion is not named but the announcement did say that Forsaken Gods's dev team will be scanning the game's offical message boards and "will incorporate as many of the fan-wishes as possible."