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A series of Twitter posts from (former) Radical Heights Lead Producer Ron LaJoie seems to indicate that he did not know that Boss Key Productions was closing until he was told by his 10-year-old daughter. She sent him a copy of the press release from Cliff Bleszinki where he announced that Boss Key was “effectively shut down”. It is unclear whether other employees were told ahead of time or not.
This week our own Tim Eisen attempts to fit 5,000 words in 1,000 as he covers the latest Beta Crusade update from City State Entertainment. We’re talking CPU load on proxies, icons and MMORPG freestyling!
As gamers, we want the best peripherals. One bad accessory can spoil an entire game, but a full set of high-end peripherals can cost hundreds of dollars. Logitech is out to change that. Today, we’re looking at the G305 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse. It features their incredible HERO sensor, with excellent tracking and astounding 250 hour – 9 month battery life, compromise free wireless for only $59.99. What’s the catch?
The Wild West Online forum has a new post to provide details about the most significant components of the latest update to the game. Most notably, players will find several changes to vendors as well as additional weapons, more loot and XP bonuses applied on a kill. In addition, quality of life changes were made, several specific to Town Capture Events.
The Tree of Savior site has been updated with a new post to lay out big changes coming for all of the healing classes in the game. This is part of the overall “intense balance” pass that the team has been working on for the past several months. There is no specific information about when update will be deployed and the pass is still considered a work in progress.
The latest Grim Dawn developer update has been published on the game’s forums. In this new “Grim Misadventure”, the team talks about the Rune Augment system that is coming along with the Forgotten Gods expansion. Rune augments can only be applied to Medals and will provide players with one of six different movement abilities that can drastically change the way any class plays. These Runes can be earned via faction reputation or crafted in higher forms via blacksmith blueprints.
MMORPG.com has been given 200 keys worth at least $50 in game for Dragon Awaken. These keys will give users many free in game items such as Advanced Summoning Cards, 7 day VIP trial cards, hero upgrade stones and more! Enter for a chance to win one of these keys now!
The Aion site has been updated with a new contest announcement called Leave Your Legacy: Costume Design. Aspiring and artistic Daevas are invited to create a costume design and submit it by May 27th for entry into the contest. The winner will receive in-game premium currency and five costume skins of their design. Five runners up will receive a smattering of in-game premium currency.
Cliff Bleszinski has posted on Twitter that “Boss Key Productions is effectively no more”. He further reveals that LawBreakers was a great game that “didn’t gain traction” and that Radical Heights was “well received, however, … too little too late”. He further writes that he will be taking time off to spend with his family and to consider whether or not he’ll be back “to make something new again someday”.
Heroes of the Storm players are being invited to participate in the newest in-game event called Nexomania. The skins, sprays and other cosmetics definitely rock the lucha libre vibe. There are new skins for Lunara, Diablo, Lunara, Garrosh and others.