You might recollect that X Rebirth was originally targeted for release a couple of years ago, but it’s only now entering those final stages. Word (via Blue) is that it will appear at E3 under the banner of new publisher Tri Synergy. The announcement of this appearance is accompanied by a hand-wavey explanation of delay from the dev’s bossman Bernd Lehahn, who says “It’s beautiful, it’s big and everything in it is new. But it turns out you don’t simply reinvent space games overnight.”

Anyway, Egosoft are still pushing out the ongoing dev materials, as we saw in this post from Craig in May. And they’re still at it. Astonishing orbital-structure concept video below.(more…)