I posted this over on the EG forums, but thought you might appreciate it as well:
Okay, little update for those not following on the official unofficial TW2 forums:
Southpeak, the publisher for UK/US/Australia, has said to many people who have telephoned the head office that it is being released on the 5th October.
Zuxxez, the Continental EU publisher, is still saying 21st.
However, the CEO of Topware dropped into the forum and basically said that for the US/UK/Australia "Technically a release date before October 21st is not possible". Which is probably where Play.com and others are getting the 29th October from. Southpeak are still saying 5th October even after being told what the Topware CEO said.
So I don't know who to believe. Technically I should believe Southpeak because they have the final say on the release date, but why would the Topware CEO say that it's 21st at the earliest?
Play.com are basically out of the running - after all, they still have Fable 3 down as October 29th for the PC, when there is no confirmed date (same with Gameplay).
So we are still in the dark, but are now down to 2 possible dates (3 if you include play.com).