Looks very nice indeed. Any minimum/recommended PC specs given yet?

On a side note though, how anal would combat gear designer need to be in real life to put flashy "shoot-me-im-here" lights on combat armor?

how anal would combat gear designer need to be in real life to put flashy "shoot-me-im-here" lights on combat armor?

If you read the full blog entry, you'll see that they have an explanation for all of that.
While the original armor of the marines in NS was developed for marine vs marine combat, the new armor they're using in NS2, which takes place a few years after NS, is specifically made for marine vs. alien combat. That's the reason why those helmets don't have any kind of face protection, like they do in the original NS. It just removes a lot of your field of view, while adding no survival chance bonus because if an alien is already biting on your head, you're dead anyways.
So, those blue lights don't add any advantage for the aliens (since they have different sensory organs than humans anyways) while they do make it easier for the marines.

Is this Halo OSTD?

This video shows a simple mod we created for Natural Selection 2 to fine tune some features of the engine, like animation blending and physics. It also gave us a great opportunity to test out our content pipeline and modding infrastructure. This simple rifle range game was created from scratch (it's only about 500 lines of Lua code) and took very little time using the Spark toolset. This mod doesn't use any of the Natural Selection 2 game code, so the actual NS2 rifle behaves a bit differently. We thought you'd enjoy a peek!

Natural Selection 2 pre-alpha gameplay footage skulk, marine, gorge, command station, the sentry and a marine base chock full of toys.

I doubt things with eyes in the mouth survive natural selection. :ugly:

We have confirmed with Valve that pre-orders will transfer properly to Steam! As you know, we have been funded largely by preorders although many of you have been patiently waiting to hear if pre-orders would let you download and play the game on Steam later. The answer is YES!

Pre-ordering now gives immediate access to NS2 mapping tools and artwork as well as early access to the alpha or beta when ready. We are now testing our engine with a small number of players and will expand that to everyone that has pre-ordered the Special Edition shortly.

So we gonna go for this game? Looks good and we seriously need some new toys to play with.

I have preordered the special edition BTW. ^^