Courtesy of Coral Beach, our revered French Mutant Chronicles Elder ;o)
In February 2001, Paradox announced on its website that the Kult and Chronopia/Mutant Chronicles licences were ceded to two companies, respectively 7ème Sercle and Excelsior Entertainment. Shortly after, in an interview in the French magazine Casus Beli the team of 7ème Sercle explained that they had as obligation to release at least one product on the Kult licence before its term 5 years later.
It is thus reasonable to assume that EE was submitted to the same duties as 7ème Sercle, so January-February this year should be a moment of accounting with Paradox.
That's all I have ;o)