Today, Automated Mail Bot begins sending thank you mails to everyone who pre-ordered World of Goo, with a link to download the full version.

Automated Mail Bot will consider a “pre-order” anyone who orders before Monday, October 6, 11:59pm Pacific Time Zone, or whatever this magic clock says. If you miss the pre-order deadline, the game will be properly released in one week – Monday, October 13, on both PC and WiiWare.

Also, the second trailer has been updated with some new footage below. Thanks from both of us to everyone who pre-ordered, and kept us going these last few months – we’re a week away and it can’t come soon enough…

many months ago, when kyle and i were testing out the new leaderboard feature, we added a “cheat” entry called Big Winner Uncle Dave (though that wasn’t always his name).  we forgot to remove him when we made the leaderboard public, and at some point he became more of a legend than a mistake to be corrected, so we left him there.

anyway, i don’t know when exactly this happened, but we just became aware that a Netherlander named Marius actually beat Big Winner Uncle Dave’s record! check out Marius’ masterful building technique and tremble with awe…

Nintendo President Iwata and game design overlord of our hearts Miyamoto played World of Goo last week – and they liked it! Today, Iwata mentioned it as a part of a presentation in Japan – here’s a translated text version and video (our little mention is at 29:00)

We are honored they even know we exist. Thanks, as always, to Dan and Tom at Nintendo!