Tempest 4000 - YES! YES! YES!

[Jamesac]

How long before (hopeful) release do dates have to be announced? Ten days or four months, for example?

The sooner it's in Local Game Store's system the quicker people can reserve it. Therefore a release date is created long before it's set in stone, but usually made with a reasonable expectation of being at least close. And then sometimes things don't work out.

[Baggypants]

How long before (hopeful) release do dates have to be announced? Ten days or four months, for example?

I doubt it works like that. Probably more like, 'keep a box in the store and we'll give you the nod' probably even less so on steam. I remember Korruptor tweeting a big green publish button when Lumo came out.

[Jamesac]

Honestly, when things are embargoed they can show up days beforehand and cause any amount of annoyance as store employees count them up for daily inventory, usually by looking at the number of boxes and multiplying by 4/6/12, depending on how they're packaged. That's for only the biggest titles, though, and the normal release is "shows up, gets shelved". I'm looking forward to T4K quite a bit but it's definitely falling into the latter category. A game has to show up by the case-full to get the embargoed treatment.

[zbandito]

[Molloy]

It's kind of amazing that Xbox development is still bogged down with red tape in this era where they're publishing games like PUBG that are half finished and pushing huge updates constantly.

[PVB]

It's kind of amazing that Xbox development is still bogged down with red tape in this era where they're publishing games like PUBG that are half finished and pushing huge updates constantly.

[PVB]

Yak and Giles seem to be on a short holiday over the last few days.

Hopefully that means something is about to happen....?

[Markie]

I suppose it is possible we may not see T4K until later this year ...

[PVB]

Looking for any news on the release date, I found this preview from 14th June:

https://games.mxdwn.com/news/tempest-40 ... pressions/

So many things wrong with what’s written!

[Harlequin]

So many things wrong with what’s written!

Goddess! Aside from the factual errors and ignorance, the quality of his writing is abysmal. How did Valdez acquire his claimed degree in Creative Writing?

[gravy]

Because him claiming a degree in creative writing is creative writing?

[Markie]

Because him claiming a degree in creative writing is creative writing?

I like that :-)

[gilesgoat]

Looking for any news on the release date, I found this preview from 14th June:

https://games.mxdwn.com/news/tempest-40 ... pressions/

So many things wrong with what’s written!

Jeez .. that's a very old build as well that poor version number been incremented so many times ..

[Misfit]

So it's finally out.

Just about to buy on the Xbox One store (£23.99)

having issues finding it on the PS store, but probably won't buy it there unless we get VR

Sadly I'm 200 miles from my Xbox, but may be able to check it out around midnight tonight if I'm not too tired from meetings/drive home.

So presumably it's quite good?

[Misfit]

OK, wasn't in the PS store, was in something that looked like it could be the store, but where searching for Tempest did sod all.

As discussed elsewhere, the digital storefronts are appalling even when you know what you want!