Not to redirect traffic, but plenty of gaming and performance oriented sites do regular features on this...and have benchmarks to prove effectiveness. Two that come to mind are Gamersnexus and Modders-Inc.
Can't see this happening...ubisoft took major heat about saying 30FPS is good enough. 60 has been the gold standard and if anything, like most things in tech, the bar will raised higher than that soon enough.
I didn't see anything mentioned about WTG...this can be used like any other external bootable drive with a copy Windows 8 on it. Plenty of articles on web that say how to create such...