***UPDATE 2015-03-23***

Last week i sent a mail to GAMKIN about their upcoming tactical RPG “X-Tactics”, as i thought that i needed to check how the project was going.

Because nothing much as been said since September last year.

Well, we received an answer by GAMKIN this morning! And here it is =)

“Hello Robin, Thanks for your email!

We’re currently preparing X-Tactics for soft launch at the this time, waiting on Apple’s approval process, to try to pin down the release schedule, however we’re still tweaking balance, visuals and working on feedback from QA, so actual official release is still a build or two away.

Also to help us pay the bills and keep us afloat, we have been working on some client work, which unfortunately has delayed things a bit. But without this extra work X-Tactics development would not be possible, so we’re very grateful about it.

And thanks to this extra work, we have released a location based tourist adventure game this week for one of the regional tourist associations here in Japan. This side-project is now helping us iron out some bottlenecks in our backend before the X-Tactics release.

We’re also working with some partners to help us promote the game in regions we can’t fully support with our small team. I’d really like to provide a fixed schedule for releases, but we’re still trying to pin down the exact timings, as negotiations differ widely between partners.

We’re definitely planning on releasing first in English, but exact dates will differ a bit by country/region. Best regards,” – Robert, GAMKIN

So now you know the deal with “X-Tactics”. The project is not dead and the game will be released at one point or another.
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It´s been 6 months since i wrote about GAMKIN´s (an indie studio that´s full of Capcom, SEGA and SquareEnix veterans) tactical RPG game “X-Tactics” (iOS, Android, Kindle, PC, MAC, Google Glass and Linux).

So i thought that it´s about time that i do a status update on “X-Tactics”. Well, for starter the game collected over $18,000 (in total) on indiegogo back in September last year.

That is however, pretty much all “news” there is to it (to my great disappointment).

X-Tactics are made by veterans from SEGA, SquareEnix,and Capcom.

As Gamkin hasn´t updated neither their homepage or Facebook page since September last year. So it´s hard to tell what has really happened since the indiegogo campaign ended last year.

Is “X-Tactics” still under development? Or has the game been cancelled? Hard to tell at this time, we have reached out to Gamkin for a comment on this though.

But for now the future of “X-Tactics” is somewhat uncertain…

About X-Tactics: 
When you mix Men In Black, Conspiracy Theory, Illuminati, New World Order, Aliens, Urban Legends, Mad Science & Anime into an RPG, this is what you get. By veterans from SquareEnix, SEGA and Capcom. X-Tactics, an Episodic Tactical RPG that mixes solid game mechanics with real world data and geocaching.