In an article the german PC Games explains why they originally mentioned August as the release date and when the game was supposed to be released exactly. According to the article, the 15th August was mentioned when they visited Piranha Bytes and played Elex there.

However, on all information there was an embargo up to 1st June, excluding the newest issue of their magazine, so they announced August as a release date, which they later had to correct, only hours before the final release date dropped. As we already reported, Elex was delayed in the last minute because of the console versions. Now the RPG is going to be released on 17th October 2017.

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