Yesterday, Gothic 3 developer Piranha Bytes announced via their website that their much-anticipated sequel in the Gothic series, Gothic 3, has gone gold. After 3 and a half years of development, Gothic 3 has a release date of October 13th, 2006 throughout various markets in Europe via JoWooD, with announcements for the US forthcoming from Aspyr Media no doubt.

Official announcement after the jump..

At 02:20 this morning Gothic 3 has been shipped to Sony Austria for replication. This means that after more than three and a half years of time development has been finished. Gothic 3 is scheduled for release on October 13th in various European countries.

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