Tales of the Abyss falls into the abyss known as gaming delays.

With the release of Xenoblade Chronicles, and the promise of The Last Story and Pandora's Tower next year, in Europe and not North America RPG-fans were being treated quite well in Europe. Tales of the Abyss 3D was due to follow suite by being released in Europe next month and North America early next year, although that has now all changed.

Earlier in the month the release date slipped back two weeks to November 25th and now Electronic Theatre is reporting that the title has been delayed from next month to an unspecified date this year. This means that European gamers should still get it ahead of the North American release date of February 14th 2012 but we'll have to wait and see if it gets delayed again.

Update: Good news everyone! One of Namco Bandai's PR peeps has been on Twitter to rubbish claims of a delay:

Contrary to the odd report yesterday, tales of the abyss has not been delayed in europe. Still 25th nov.