Egosoft has finally come out of hiding and announced release date for X: Rebirth, something I've been waiting impatiently for years for.

November 15th in Europe, November 19th in the US. Already on Steam, but no pre-orders yet.

With it, they've also released a new nearly 4-minute trailer, which links to another video of Bernd explaining scale and some game features.

I haven't really been paying close attention to this, so I was taken aback by the fact that you have a multi-crew ship, and can actually enter and walk around stations. The game looks simply gorgeous.

Yes, it's kind of a bummer you're stuck in one ship, and yes every single X game comes out with game-breaking inexcusable bugs but...good God I haven't been this excited about a game since the new XCOM hit. I put over 1000 hours into X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Reunion combined and unless things go horribly awry (and they might), Rebirth will be gettin' near those numbers over the holidays too. Who needs new consoles?

This seems like everything I love about video games. TAKE ME TO SPACE.

Fuck man.... I was totally happy not knowing this existed. Now I gotta squeeze yet another game in this holiday. This looks like the exact space game I've always wanted.

I dont know anything about the X series but this looks fucking amazing. This is single player?

Wow, that's looks pretty cool. Add another awesome game for the rest of this year.

Aw, shit, I have X3 and I forgot about it.

I had sex wit ur mom.

...

IN SPACE!

Wow. I need a job and a new rig by then ....

@daneian: Unless they drop another bomb on us, yes, it's only single player. Historically, X games always have been.

Oh man, yeeeeees. I spent a good amount of time in X3TC. I should play a bit of Albion to get myself back in that space mode.

As Keanu Reeves once (many) times said ... Woah.

If there is one word I could use to describe X3, it's boring. Soul-crushingly boring.

How is this going to be any different? At least it looks good I suppose.