There was recently an article on Tacticular Cancer that said SFI was reporting a "late september" release date.
There is a new ad
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Press release on "Space Empires Month"
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Tacticular Cancer article
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Also, I notice that TC has some news on a new Jagged Alliance game, but SFI has news about them yanking publishing rights for the series... I do hope it comes out.
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