[andrewas]

Infinity is dead, long live Aurora.

or to put it another way, all series currently on infinity will transfer to the aurora (ie NWN) engine for their next instalments, with the possible exception of expansion packs (if any) and the definite exception of third party add-ons (ie TDD, DsotSC etc)

there will be no BG3 ever, at least officialy. this is because the plot ends for good in ToB, and the endings branch to the point where it would be almost impossible to continue a plot based upon the bhallspawn. this does not mean that their will never again be a game set in the Baldurs Gate/Amn/Saradush territories of course. so ends the stuff im fairly sure about the future of black isle games.

on NWN, there are not official minimum specs yet, but looking at the shots, graphicaly it dosent beat black&white (for instance) in any significant detail. the models are a bit better, thats about it. and then theres the spell efects. im going to estimate around 800mhz as a decent spec for it, but im gonna go for something a bit meatier than that. as in 2ghz/geforce3.