Egosoft is pleased to announce the release of X3: Albion Prelude 3.0 - Shady Business! The fight of the Corporations for power, prosperity and technologies continues.

A Split 'bridle' is missing and StrongArms, Jonferco and the Beryll are trying everything to find her. They seem to be putting in a bit too much effort just to save a Split wedding. What other interests they have in finding the Split bridle? You'll find out in the 'Shady Business' plot. Another place another story. Some corporations rise; others fall. A few owners of struggling corporations are clever enough to ask for help. Who knows? Maybe one of them will also try to contact you. Find out in the 'Corporation Troubles' plot. Turned-off gate connections drastically change the universe, as we know. While some factions fight for control of the remaining territories, others pursue more peaceful objectives. Help those discovering new places to settle in the 'Breaking Grounds' plot.

But this is not everything Update 3.0 has to offer by a long way. Four new generic missions have found their way into the game. Amongst those are the 'Tour of a Lifetime' and 'Repair Station' missions that some of you might know from earlier X games. In the hope of continued support in the ongoing war, the Terran government has finally decided to offer previously unavailable weapon and support factories for sale. Driven by a similar logic, the Argon federation has put its newest supply ship into mass production. While not directly involved in the war, the Split Patriarch has revealed his long-kept secret flagship to counter the armament efforts of the other races.

Also new in this Update is the added support for Gamepad controllers. Finally those of you who want to play X3: Albion Prelude with a Gamepad will be able to do so.

It's not only new things that have been added, though; some old bugs have also finally bitten the dust. These include a problem with super-shipyards preventing M6 ships from undocking without collisions, the destruction of captured ships by the war manager, as well as several problems with generic missions. As usual, the complete changelog can be found in the documents folder of your X3: Terran Conflict addon directory.

X3: Albion Prelude 3.0 is available now for download over Steam. The Steam client will automatically update your game to the latest version, provided it has not been configured to prevent this. We have also updated the NoSteam EXE to version 3.0 - to use this you will need to update via Steam first.

We would like to thank the volunteer developers of the AP Community Project for developing large parts of this update. We would also like to thank our army of community members, testers and translators for their contribution in bringing this update to life.

The X-Universe News Edition 50 featuring a new development video and an interview with our Linux expert is now available!

Update: The forums are back online.

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We're pleased to announce that X3: Albion Prelude 2.5.3 is now available, in which we extend the script engine and finally smash the Billion Barracuda Bug.

The world didn't end! And so we have just begun sending out X-Universe News edition 49. We've moved the X Rebirth release date to 2013, there's a community Q&A, Concepts and Music, exciting X3AP news and more!

Read all about it in X-Universe News 49

'Tis the Season... Steam Holiday Sale! Until January 5th all X games are 50% off on Steam. And if you're lucky you'll catch the 75% off Flash Sale. Save 50% on X SuperBox on Steam

Finally we would like to thank all our fans for their continued support and wish you all happy holidays and a great start into 2013 - the year that will see a Rebirth!

Just a small update for X3TC and X3AP today. As well as updating the Chinese localisations for both games, we're adding voice support for Russian to X3AP and preparing for the new Japanese release. The update for X3AP also includes a number of small fixes, including a solution for those of you suffering from the infamous "billion barracuda bug".

X3: Albion Prelude 2.5.2 and X3: Terran Conflict 3.2c are from now on available for download over Steam. The Steam client will automatically update your game to the latest version, provided it has not been configured to prevent this.

After a hardware failure in the primary forum server we temporarily re-routed the forum traffic through a different server until repairs could be completed.
Good news: we haven't lost anything and the original server is back up and running again, however it may take up to 72 hours until everything is once again running through that server.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We are pleased to announce that X3: Albion Prelude 2.5 is now available! The latest update includes a new Terran plot and a number of bugfixes.

While defending the Terran territory against continuous attacks, the USC high command has been prepairing a secret mission to weaken the war efforts of the Commonwealth races for quite a while. Now the time to start "Operation Loose Ends" has come.
In a series of covert operation missions the player will be sent deep behind enemy lines to help the Terran Federation getting the better of the war again. Rewarded with new technologies the player will be able to change the universe even more than before.

As well as adding a new plot, the latest development also eradicated some annoying bugs. Amongst others, the ATF rank is linked to the Terran rank now, war ships give player escorts more time to leave the war sectors and war ships will no longer try to self-destruct, once they have been captured. As usual the complete changelog can be found in the documents folder of your X3 Terran Conflict addon directory.

X3: Albion Prelude 2.5 is available now for download over Steam. The Steam client will automatically update your game to the latest version, provided it has not been configured to prevent this.

As always we'd like to thank our loyal army of community members, testers and volunteer developers for their contribution to making this update the success we hope it will be. In particular we would like to thank Cadius for the Terran HQ.


To celebrate the release of version 2.5, the X-Games will be available on Steam with a 75% discount until the 26th July again. If you have not taken the chance to complete your collection, another one just waits for you now!

Today Egosoft proudly presents a new trailer for our forthcoming X3: Albion Prelude update 2.5, which will lay the focus on a new plot. The trailer sheds some light on the reasons behind the partial destruction of the Earth Torus and on the destiny of Saya Kho.

Betrayed by their brothers and sisters, the Argons, the Terran federation has been waiting for the right moment to strike back. Now, the time has come. In "Operation Loose Ends" the player is dispatched deep behind enemy lines to weaken the Commonwealth war efforts. Gaining new technologies he will play an even more important role in the war.

No manual download of the update will be necessary; X3: Albion Prelude will be auto-updated by Steam as soon as it is available.

The Steam Summer Sale has just started and the X-games are included. Until the 23rd July all X-games will be available with a 50% discount. If any X-games are missing from your collection, now is the time to complete the set!

X3: Albion Prelude 2.1 and X3: Terran Conflict 3.2b

Spanish and Czech fans will be pleased to know that the translation teams have spared no effort to give you the best game experience in the latest patches, with full Spanish text localisation in Albion Prelude 2.1 and Spanish and Czech with Terran Conflict 3.2b.

We have also taken the chance to fix some of those annoying little bugs that have been standing in the way of enjoying X3: Albion Prelude for some time now. With version 2.1 the Rapid Response fleets will regain their former strength and help in making the universe a safer place. Some plot bugs have been fixed and an issue with registering custom hotkeys is a thing of the past.

X3: Albion Prelude 2.1 and X3: Terran Conflict 3.2b are from now on available for download over Steam. The Steam client will automatically update your game to the latest version, provided it has not been configured to prevent this.

Update: X3: Albion Prelude 2.1a

X3: Albion Prelude has been updated to 2.1a to fix an issue some people were having with the Deploy Lasertower mission in the main plot. Your Steam client will update as usual.