{"id":5500,"date":"2017-11-17T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/309970"},"modified":"2017-11-17T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T23:40:00","slug":"11-years-after-launch-titan-quest-gets-a-new-expansion-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/11-years-after-launch-titan-quest-gets-a-new-expansion-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"11 years after launch, Titan Quest gets a new expansion pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at THQ Nordic (nee Nordic Games) did something interesting this week: they launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/741350\/Titan_Quest_Ragnark\/\">$20 expansion pack<\/a> for\u00a0<em>Titan Quest<\/em>, the myth-soaked\u00a0<em>Diablo<\/em>-like that Iron Lore (now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/108612\/Iron_Lore_Entertainment_Closes_Doors.php\">deceased<\/a>) released back in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a funny show of support for an 11-year-old game, though in speaking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/a-new-titan-quest-expansion-takes-players-into-the-realm-of-the-norse-gods\/\">PCGamer<\/a>\u00a0THQ Nordic&#8217;s\u00a0Reinhard Pollice\u00a0said it&#8217;s something the company has been working towards for some time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the day we acquired the franchise in 2013, we&#8217;ve been toying around with ideas on what&#8217;s best for <em>Titan Quest<\/em>,&#8221; said Pollice. &#8220;We were quickly motivated to do another expansion as we realized <em>Titan Quest<\/em> is still actively played.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THQ Nordic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/190994\/Red_Faction_Darksiders_more_sold_to_Nordic_Games_in_latest_THQ_bankruptcy_auction.php\">acquired the rights to\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/190994\/Red_Faction_Darksiders_more_sold_to_Nordic_Games_in_latest_THQ_bankruptcy_auction.php\">Titan Quest<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(and many other properties, as well as the THQ name) during THQ&#8217;s bankruptcy proceedings in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last summer the company released a revamped version of the game on PC as the\u00a0<em>Titan Quest Anniversary Edition<\/em>, and the new\u00a0<em>Titan Quest: Ragnarok\u00a0<\/em>expansion is actually only compatible with said\u00a0<em>Anniversary Edition<\/em>; it won&#8217;t work with retail copies of the original game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at THQ Nordic (nee Nordic Games) did something interesting this week: they launched a $20 expansion pack for\u00a0Titan Quest, the myth-soaked\u00a0Diablo-like that Iron Lore (now deceased) released back in 2006. It&#8217;s a funny show of support for an 11-year-old game, though in speaking with PCGamer\u00a0THQ Nordic&#8217;s\u00a0Reinhard Pollice\u00a0said it&#8217;s something the company has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5500","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\/5500","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=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}