BlackHat has had visits from everyone, beginning with your 'groupies' and ending with 40-50 year old MIT grads who have been hacking hardware and software since the Amiga days and prior.

Which was my point entirely ;)

This might well fall flat on it's face. Not through a lack of core ability from the director, but through trying to emulate a style built partially out of need rather than entirely from want.

Read what I said again - it is hardly one year later if they had that same footage in 2003.

Apparently the footage they use right at the beginning - the same footage they used in last year's tech demo, they have been shilling since 2003.

Call me when they get an honest to god gameplay demo out of the door.

To be fair to jaronimoe, the first three-four minutes of footage is directly from the original video uploaded a year ago.

You explained why they are banning bots. However, unless something changed in the English language somewhere, bots are not mods. They are bots.

Yup, and anyone on long-haul flights.

I am actually finding myself refusing to play Ubisoft products that have the DRM, which is a problem for me if From Dust has it. I'd rather pirate it than not play it, but on the same token, I'd rather buy it and support the idea of more projects from Eric Chahi.

Does this mean this is the first Nintendo console they don't make a net profit on?

So do I.

During development the team actually built the nature simulator before thinking about gameplay to throw around it, so the tribe AI could be a result of later coding.

It's slated for numerous D2D services including Steam, so I should hope it isn't the case.

After the campaign, the last world is a sandbox world. You can replay any level you've completed including that one.

Was Ubisoft that screwed people this time around. The announced the game was delayed for PC the day before due release!

The tribes don't get much more advanced, behavior is pretty constant. They are rather thick.

From reviews, PC might be a better bet anyway as controls are reported as iffy with the controller.

The last level of the campaign is actually a sandboxy level, and you can revisit any level at any time.