I wanted to make sure you all knew about what was happening around here. As most of you know, we released an NS2 teaser (http://www.naturalselection2.com) and started taking pre-orders for NS2 (http://www.naturalselection2.com/buy) about a month ago and the response has been tremendous. We cannot thank you enough. It has been a HUGE help for us and let us really focus on making NS2 the best game it can be! You ROCK!

Also, we had some problems with our new web server, which were recently fixed. So if you ordered NS2 and have not receive your game key(s) yet, or if you would like to change the e-mail address associated with your game key(s), go here (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/help).

Now we're cranking away on our custom content tools, which include our level editor, our model viewer and our cinematic editor (which we used to create the teaser). Everyone that pre-ordered NS2 will get early access to these tools. We don't have a release date in mind, but that's our next goal. These content tools will also come with our environment textures and props as well as NS2 mapping guidelines so you can start working on maps or custom artwork for NS2 or NS2 mods. We will e-mail you when they are available and can't wait to see what you build with them!

Yesterday we also got written up on IGN and released the first of our alien "reveal" videos (http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1001060p1.html). These are short videos that show the concept art and completed version of each alien. The Onos video was released yesterday and we'll be releasing the others shortly. The writeup talks some about the Onos' abilities, which we'll be covering in much more depth on our blog in a few days.

Thanks for all your support everyone, we can't tell you how much it means to us. We're in business for, and because of, you!

-Charlie, Max, Matt, Cory and the rest of the NS2 team http://www.unknownworlds.com/about
P.S. You can follow our development on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/NS2) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NaturalSelection2).