Zipper Interactive's MAG has to be one of the most ambitious console projects going at the moment. Getting 128 people fighting against 128 other people in the same online match on the PS3 sounds like an enormous feat, and it's surely no small technical challenge for Zipper. I'm not convinced yet that any one individual player is going to be aware of that size and scale in the thick of the action, given the way the game subdivides players into smaller groups and even smaller teams, but the very concept is so grand and ambitious that you can't help taking notice.
The guys behind MAG are starting a series of video developer diaries over on the European PlayStation.Blog to demystify such a complex game. The first installment doesn't do much to address my questions about player hierarchies and the way the action will break down, but it does set up the background of the game's fiction and explain why the different factions are fighting each other. Plus, you get to see a lot of guys shooting a lot of other guys.