As you all know, PB is working on a new franchise (although they say it's still very reminiscent to Gothic) together with Deep Silver.
Here's a teaser homepage with an artwork: CLICK
The name hasn't been announced yet, althouh some infos already drizzled through.
The game takes place on a Vulcan Island, the "Forbidden Isle". The gods have abanoned the world, and now an other force emerges whom the player will be confronted with.
Also, they've now fixed the broken Genome engine finally. No horrible stutters a'la Gothic3 will occur.
If there will come more infos along the days, I'll post it here.