Following is a quote from paradox marketing:
Hi guys,
Ok so from the heading already you have an inkling of the news here.
Today we are announcing that Hearts of Iron 3 has officially gone gold
(technically a while back) and with it the final confirmation of
release dates.
Unfortunately we've encountered some production issues (print) which
means that the European ENGLISH release version is going to be delayed.
This will mainly affect Scandinavia as our UK distributor had already
communicated an Aug 14 release date. So the boxed release will be set
for Aug 14 in UK and Scandinavia and we've got a confirm of Aug 28 for
localized version in FR/GE.
I'm sure the news are disappointing and I'm sure you trust that we've
done everything in our powers to avoid the delay. With that said Johan
should not receive any criticisms for this as his team have had nothing
to do with these production delays. Just wanted to make that clear.
The good news is that the digital version will still be released as
planned on Aug 7, meaning that all of you who cannot wait for the game
can still acquire it that way.
Kind regards
Susana Meza
