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Delphi replied to one of the threads at the official forum on when exactly Emperor would be in stores saying, "it could hit store shelves as early as June 8th, but I wouldn't bet money on it." I also got a reply back via email saying that he would know for sure on Monday and that the game will be out by the 15th at the latest.

Chris Longpre also replied to a few threads, although he seemed to miss the ones about the game going gold for some reason... :)

The FOW in Emperor is defaulted to off. You can turn it on for multiplayer games though (for a real challenge). We've provided scouts which make keeping FOW back pretty easy. They have a large sight radius, and are camoflaged when stationary, so they don't get picked off too easy. When the FOW creeps back in, the terrain is still visible, but the units & buildings become obscured by a grey 'fog'. -LINK

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The Harkonnen Devastator can be forced to overload its nuclear reactor, which is already being stressed past its limits (the voice of the pilot inside is quite funny). When you give him the order, it only takes about 2 seconds and a mini-nuclear explosion will take out a few foes with it! But the plasma cannons..they rock! -LINK

I think we already knew about the Fog-Of-War info but it has been a while since it was last mentioned. Good to see they give us the choice this time as well.