{"id":115113,"date":"2020-07-07T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/366051"},"modified":"2020-07-07T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T21:15:00","slug":"thq-nordics-kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning-remaster-opens-the-door-for-new-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/07\/thq-nordics-kingdoms-of-amalur-reckoning-remaster-opens-the-door-for-new-dlc\/","title":{"rendered":"THQ Nordic&#8217;s Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning remaster opens the door for new DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THQ Nordic is working on a remaster of 38 Studios and Big Huge Games\u2019 2012 RPG <em>Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning<\/em>, cleverly named <em>Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning<\/em>, and now plans to release a brand new expansion for the game at some point after&nbsp;<em>Re-Reckoning&#8217;s <\/em>September&nbsp;2020 launch<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While remakes and remasters have been a bit of a trend for several years now, more and more companies are using those revivals as a platform to launch entirely new games or content based on IP that may have otherwise fallen to the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen it with Activision\u2019s upcoming <em>Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy<\/em>&nbsp;follow-up&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/365263\/Activision_follows_Crash_Bandicoot_remakes_with_the_first_new_Crash_game_in_a_decade.php\"><em>Crash Bandicoot 4: It&#8217;s About Time<\/em><\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363242\/2K_and_Hangar_13_get_in_on_the_classic_game_remake_trend_with_Mafia_Definitive_Edition.php\">new content promised<\/a> for&nbsp;Hangar 13\u2019s (now slightly delayed) <em>Mafia<\/em> remake, and now with new post-launch content heading to THQ Nordic\u2019s <em>Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning<\/em> revival.<\/p>\n<p>For now, THQ Nordic hasn&#8217;t said a ton about how this new addition will play into the nearly decade-old story of the original game, noting only that it is&nbsp;billed as a \u201ca brand new expansion\u201d currently due out at some point in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THQ Nordic is working on a remaster of 38 Studios and Big Huge Games\u2019 2012 RPG Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, cleverly named Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning, and now plans to release a brand new expansion for the game at some point after&nbsp;Re-Reckoning&#8217;s September&nbsp;2020 launch. While remakes and remasters have been a bit of a trend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}