Not fully.

JoWood made a Gothic 4 without their involvement (and dropping the Gothic name of Gothic 4 years later) pretty much killed the franchise. Of course, JoWood retained the rights to Gothic 4 since they made it themselves, further complicating the issue.

Blasphemy...calling Arcania a Gothic game, if you're a Gothic fan, is unacceptable. ;)

Anyway, Arcania is not PB game and nobody gave a toss about it, so IIRC Gothic IP is again with PB.

But, to be honest, PB dropped the ball after Risen 1, while I still enjoy their games, they are past their prime.

I checked, and I think the Publisher was... THQ!

THQ bought a ton of studios before the financial crisis (6 studios alone in 2006), but got hit badly by the crisis. And since they burnt all their money in acquisitions, they didn't have any reserves for the crisis, and had to file for chapter 11 in 2012. So maybe that just comes with the name.

Although Nordic games already was on a shopping spree long before they acquired the THQ brand name for themselves. And it's long enough to even warrant it's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_THQ_Nordic

Also funny how this closes the circle: Their first acquisition (still just as Nordic games) was JoWood, the owner of the Gothic brand. Now with Piranha Byte, they also have it's creators.