obviously i went a little over board there but too clarify I'm not asking for a detailed out line of the development process just like 5 minutes to say something like "coming soon" or "still working out a few bugs" or any thing

Thats actually one of my biggest fears, I'm worried it won't release until after all of my money has gone for textbooks. 

As for Blizzard being prompt or full of updates... "Diablo II" & "Burning Crusade". 

I was hoping to see something at GenCon too! I checked the catalog, and booths and nothing.

It's understandable that they want to put out the best game possilbe, and I wouldn't want them to rush it either, but as the lastest news is May 8, almost 3 1/2 months old, my hopes for seeing anything more is almost gone.

 It's too bad, becasue I know my firends and I had very high hopes.

 well that cooler guy posted the 16th of June indicating that it was VERY close to finished, but even thats over 2 months behind us.

Welp, haven't been able to get online via my work or home computers, so I'm guessing either the game's been pulled from beta and is close to release, or it's shut down and won't be appearing soon.

 Either way, went ahead and uninstalled it as I can't play until it's released and won't be digging around to see when the release is coming since the company seems to be unable to regularly update the beta group as to what's going on. I can't imagine their ability to interact with the public at large after it releases will get better as it'll be more interaction, not less.

 Sigh, had high hopes too.

 This isnt updating. Astral masters isnt updating. I wonder what they're up to. Maybe they've gone?

 I think they are too busy working on the Bella Sara pony CCG.  No joke.

http://www.bellasara.com/index_maf.aspx 

You are probably right.  I just wish that they would post something in the news section to update the fans that have been loyal. 

Well in any case they are loosing customers simply due to there lack of importance on updating the public with what is going on. It takes 3 minutes to let everone know what is going on and they havent deemed it important to them to even utter a single word to anyone. To me that simply tells me that they do not care about the people they want to make money from.

Bad move in my book and I personally have put this into my abandonded games book and wont be back to get it later IF they decide to ever release an update or the actual game.

I can say that my friends and I feel the same way.

hooray new news

 good news too... its funny though, november for the WoW expansion sounds close, but october for spectromancer seems so faaarr awaaayy...

 Check out the new interview with Richard Garfield about Spectromancer on TCGPlayer.com:
http://www.tcgplayer.com/db/game_review.asp?AID=2626&PID=299&DBID=4

Thanks for the link.