Huh? A new patch was released for the PC version of Arkane Studios’ Arx Fatalis earlier today, a little over eight years after the game originally hit store shelves in 2002. According to the patch notes, this latest improves the game’s stability in Windows Vista and Windows 7, and also addresses some performance issues with NVIDIA GPUs on top of some other, much smaller fixes.
This, understandably, is the last patch Arkane Studios will put out for its RPG. However, you can now make your own by messing around with the game’s source code, which was also released this morning alongside this patch. You can grab the source here.
This news comes via Bethesda, which shouldn’t strike you as too strange. Bethesda arguably has the biggest reach of any studio in the ZeniMax Media family, which now includes other developers like Arkane and id Software. Also, Bethesda is presumably publishing Arkane's unannounced current project for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, and a little positive PR never hurts.
You can grab Arx Fatalis, by the way, on Steam, Good Old Games, and Direct 2 Drive.