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I remember getting rules for this system called VOID when I picked up Army Builder 2.2 in CD format years ago. I remember it was by some company out of the UK called I-Kore and that it seemed to have the usual range of sci-fi types, some decent, most uglier than sin. Whatever happened to it?

Hi. I-Kore had... accounting irregularities. The game has now become Urban war, from Urban Mammoth:

http://www.urbanmammoth.com/

It's even more complicated than that. Ikore went under and Void went to Scotia Grendel who still have the old models.

www.scotiagrendel.com/void_catalogue.html

Urban Mammoth launched a new game based on the same IP called Urban War then renamed Metropolis.

Just to add to the madness there's a story that Void was developed while the designers were working on Mutant Chronicles/Warzone as part of their exit strategy while that game was tanking.

Actually, the story goes that the outline of the VOID rules were going to basically be the 4th Edition of Warzone. When Paradox Plaza went poopie dead, Felix Garzon and the rest of his lads (along with my favorite Merc sculptor Kev White, and other favorite Merc artist Adrian Smith who both worked on all the Chronopia/Warzone stuff) started I-Kore.

The rest is pretty well documented.

So the standard "by gamers, for gamers, we suck as accountants/marketers" tale?

Pretty much. With a pinch of 'history repeating itself over and over and over...' thrown in.

Just a note:
Urb war is a skirmish level game (like necromunda).
Metropolis is for larger battles with bigger forces/heavier units, it's not just a renamed Urban War.

The minis are still available (mostly) through Scotia-Grendel (and kryomek is available there, too). There is a section on the Urban War forums about Void.

Many of the forces can still be used in UW.
There are, as yet, no vehicle rules, and the larger pieces (striders/big viridian squiggoth-like dinosaur-thingy) are simply pretty display models.