On the official forum yesterday, Jolly Joker claims that the Tribes of the East expansion will not ship in September: "Did you read anywhere that it has gone gold? It hasn't, yet, so forget September." JJ has worked on the German translation of the game.

Going gold is when the master disc is sent for duplication, a few weeks before the game comes out in store. Publishers sometimes announce that their games have gone gold, either via a press release or a forum post. We'll keep looking for such an announcement...