I couldn't tel you for the selling, in my country (france) nobody knows it, and I actually am the only one owning ffg games appart from some warrior knigths...
But even if it might sale quite well, I don't think it does enough to take too much time on it for a company like FFG. But, hey, they did recently announced this expansion for Tribune, probably a game less known than CE, so, never say never, right ? Everyone around me is ok for an arkham, a descend, a whatever. But if I ask, no doubt : it is cosmic they want to play.

In case you missed it, they finally officially announced Cosmic Incursion: 20 new powers (including the Snivler!), Rewards system, and a sixth player were in the announcement.

-shnar

A pretty good clue as to when it will release: on the FFG homepage, in the header it says "Cosmic Incursion. This Winter: The Invasion Begins"

See ?! See ?! I prayed ! I did ! I diiiid ! Yeepee yay !!!!!

Winter is a long span, but I know it's coming and that's good enough for me! Hooray!

Keep up the prayer Hem!

Basically the same press release but from a French gaming site, translated with the help of google. It has slightly more to say about the Cosmic Quake though, and for that, while eagerly awaiting more official information, it's worth a look. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsp-mag.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D1180%3Aune-belle-bande-de-cosmiques%26catid%3D52%3Ajspsortie%26Itemid%3D114&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=

I didn't check the translated version of google but thanks a lot for the link ! If you don't mind, I'll provide my own translation. I realized there really was nothing new in this article, but I kept on translating it for any fans that is just happy to read stuff about CE from time to time.... but no "new news" in there, sorry !

"Quite a Bunch of Cosmicals" (sort of)

Thirty two years after its first publication, the famous game Cosmic Encounter is healthier than ever. The Editor Company Fantasy Flight, responsible for the new edition last year, has just announced a first expansion, Cosmic Incursion. This one will obviously include new aliens races with astonishing powers, but will bring some few changes to the base game too.

In Cosmic Encounter, each player controls an alien race with a very peculiar special ability and must try, by force and by forging clever alliances, to establish colonies on the other players' solar systems.

The last version, published in French by Edge Ent, allowed to draw from a fifty available alien races deck, so that you could be sure to have an always different combination of powers in every game.

With Cosmic Incursion will appear twenty new races, some of them taken from the previous versions of the game, like the Whiner, and some others brand new.

This expansion is the occasion too for a sixth player to come into play, with the whole components needed for him. The american publisher will reveal in the forecoming weeks the other modifications brought to the game, but one already says that there could be a Rewards cards deck that may attract bellicose moves from every player. Regarding the Cosmic Quakes, it is still too early to say anything about it, except that they may probably shaken the peaceful quietness of the game...

To see the announcement on FFG's website :

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=882

Cosmic Encounter - Cosmic Incursion expansion
Author : Bill Eberle, Bill Norton, Jack Kittredge, Kevin Wilson
Editor : FFG
Players : 3-6
Age : 10 and more
Lenght : 60 minutes

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Don't get too worked up over Cosmic Quake, guys. It's just the rule in the FAQ being made official. There are plenty more cool bits in the expansion though.

Yup, this french article is nothing but advertisment wholly taken from the FFG announcement. I personnaly don't even know about Cosmic Quakes, I discovered Cosmic Encounter with FFG's version. I'm too young to know others

Sir Wilson, may I ask what you are doing here, wasting your time talking to us ? Hm ?! I'm gonna ask Sir Petersen to lock you up in a room with pen and paper so you can work on all of your masterpieces and create more expansions for it, especially Android first !!!! You've made fantastic works, now assume it ! Be exploited !

.... sigh, I really don't know how to tell an artist how much I admire his works. That's pathetic. Me sad french kwak kwak.

It's coming out this winter.