Great, and we lowly Europeans have to wait a few more days. No wonder nobody likes you Americans ;-P.

Let me grab those additional 13GB and will tell you if we have to wait or not. Will take a few hours though...

Do they at least use the demo assets to save a few GB?

Me idiot forget to fire up my PC this morning, otherwise I could download that game via the Steam app.

No idea yet, since it seems to have downloaded it at the Depotcache folder (going by the size of it), you'll have to ask Orcish (or another american) about it. And I'm not talking about the "official" release, if you know what I mean...

Would you like to hear how good it is, or how I'm neglecting it to try out Dishonored?:)

Ah, this is the time of the year when I throw both good sense AND money out the window. It's my present to myself:)

I also picked up Pokemon: Black and White 2 on Sunday and Fable The Journey today. I am still trying to finish Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2 from last month, and so I bid you adieu while I go start drinking and playing video games:)

I'm jealous of either your free time, or your lack of caring about other things to get that much video game-time in. :D

I don't have that much free time, realistically some of these will go barely played...

I already have more achievos on X-Com than you, my green friend ;-P.

Ah, the joys of the internet ...

Ok, all the positive buzz has turned me onto XCOM. But I'll wait for the inevitable $7.50 price tag one year from now.

Probably Christmas

Nah, not this high profile of a release. I doubt it'll be more than 50% off during the Holiday Sale. But next summer? Aww yeaa

There is review on czech gaming site and they gave it 9/10 and hail it as great game. Main gripes that aliens do nothing until you discover them, soldiers don't stop when they spot alien and can end right next to him with no turn left and unability to shoot the environment with weapons, only with rockets which are limited by skill.
He also said it controls better with gamepad than with keyboard+mouse combo, which I unfortuantely already knew.
It took him 30 hours to complete it and he lost 24 soldiers in the process, but no mention of difficulty level (so I guess it was normal).
He praised more important features like that he had good fun and it has good atmosphere and also overall gameplay.
All in all he made to look forward to it a bit more than before again, but I will still wait for some time before getting it.
Yeah and thing I find weird are his mention about special missions, like when aliens try to mine railway to blow up train and you have to stop them. I don't wuite get, why should aliens want to blow up trains when there are more efficient ways to harm humanity.

I looked up the file sizes and was blown away by how big it is. Jagged Alliance BIA was 2gb or something (a comparable type of strategy game). Have you found out what's eating up all that space?