The last time we checked in with the release date for Rise of the Argonauts, the official word from publisher Codemasters was that it would be out "before Christmas". Well, in just a few weeks that has changed and it now looks like 2008 will have go without the release of the action-RPG from developer Liquid Entertainment.

In a new press release Codemasters has now finally admitted that the game is due for release sometime in early 2009, which makes the already pretty sparse December time frame for new games even more bleak. Codemasters had previously pushed back another fall 2008 game, Damnation, to a new early 2009 release. Codemasters did release some new screenshots from the game this morning which we have reproduced here.