Check out peercointalk.org, all the information about 0.5 and nubits is right there. Although nubits is still a bit of a mistery, the programming team working on it is excellent, so the expectations are pretty high.
I know they are paying top wages for engineers...
But, seriously, PPC has completely fallen into the abyss.
Last I heard Jordan Lee was giving away equity to his buddies.
NXT has 250 assets and is adding 2 assets/day = it's going exponential...
If the PPC team doesn't match NXT functionality head-to-head they are wasting their time...
Some half-baked protocol like XCP or ClearingHouse or MasterWhatever is pointless and doomed.
Any discussion of Crypto Assets without a direct comparison to NXT is meaningless.