No, Armatures won’t be working for the game engine for this release : sorry. (If you want to have some great engine features try to help, in any capacity : they’re just too few working on it right now.)
Yeah there’s just too little people working on the gameblender portion. Hehe, erwin’s on it though with the time’s he’s got.
Everyone should have seen this coming when Ton decided to redo the whole animation system. If you need to use armatures just used a previous release of blender for the time being. The new armature systems still has awhile to mature a bit and it’ll take a little while before it’s 100% workable again for the game engine.