I had been to their forum before and it had the cybers so this arabic thing is new.
I had heard they were playing with their timeline in order to match the movie closer (which I find annoying as heck). By toying I mean the DL emerges on Earth inspiring the Exodus (from what I am guessing). I suppose it is supressed or driven back (i.e. the plot of the movie) only to come back later down the road. That leaves it open for the cybers to be created later. Still, not a big fan of jacking with the plot, although previous editions of the game (Mutant Space) had even stranger changes. That said, they were not Mutant Chronicles, just the fore-runner of what would become MC. 2nd Ed MC did not mess with the timeline (if anything it cleared things up a bit). I know I was upset when 2nd Ed WZ screwed around with things (especially Bauhaus). I'll probably get this game, just to watch the train wreck. I was worried it would come out while I was gone and did not get a copy but they keep sliding it to the right, just like the movie and the Collectable Minitarues Game from Fantasy Forge.