Egosoft GmbH (formerly Ego Software) is a German video game developer based in Würselen, Germany.

[citation needed] Egosoft was founded in Würselen by Bernd Lehahn in 1988, making it the oldest active video game company in Germany.

"[8][9] There is still no official information on the Online Universe, though there has been speculation that X2 and X3's 2007 uplink feature may be a positive spin-off of the project.

[10] In late 2009, Egosoft announced that Terran Conflict completed the story started in X: Beyond the Frontier, taken by some to mean the end of the franchise.

However, in March 2011 they announced on their X-Universe forums that they would be attending FedCon XX in Düsseldorf on 28 April 2011, and would show preview footage of their current project,[11] previously only referred to by the codename TNBT (The Next Big Thing).