I voted "Yes", mainly because I associate a lot of people on this (and other) forums with their avatars, I recognise very few people from their usernames alone, especially if their name is: "xXxS1ckSkiilzxXx".
@mikkaq: I just assume that everyone without an avatar is the same oddly prolific person.
I would bring this up to other members of your gaming group, see what they think of him.
If you feel you would have majority support, confront him. Or, alternatively, you said he's the one that usually organises the games, gets you all together. So start organising some games without him, slog through games with him and wait for him to really piss somebody off (it sounds like he's getting more standoffish and confrontational, it'll only be a matter of time before he pushes someone too far)
Apart from that, try not to openly question him I guess. Some people really don't like being told they're wrong, especially among their friends. Doubly so if they think they are a de-facto leader of sorts.
@the_laughing_man: Not only that but when were the specifications finalised? a year ago? a couple of months?
Any developer making a next-gen game releasing in the launch window has probably been working on non-final hardware for a while. Engines need to be updated, middleware needs re-writing, there is more to it than just making the game at the start of a generation.
@olliespace: I don't know if you've already tried this, but you could also send a mass e-mail to everyone in your faculty, or to the Computer Science faculty asking them to participate.
Though you might want to check with your head of faculty before you do anything like that, to make sure it's okay.
I get dozens of these types of requests near the end of every semester sent to me, so I'm sure your Uni would be okay with it.
Oh and for the data, I meant just in the form of graphs/pie charts, if you get a decent enough sample size, some of those questions might reveal some interesting results.
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