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what's up Internet Kevin here with your weekly serving of the news talking about the biggest stories to come out of the gaming industry this past week and I want to start by talking about the return and the departure of two different lead game designers both of which have had a very large impact on the industry as a whole to begin with at the start of this week on Monday Cliff Bleszinski the father of the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War series announced on Twitter his official return from retirement with plans to announce something very big in the next week later he also tweeted a link to a countdown site which is presumably counting down to whatever his big announcement is which will be hitting zero at around 9 a.m. Tuesday Pacific time now Bleszinski left the gaming industry and epic games two years ago but only after a year he already started talking about that he had interest in getting back into Triple A games development and more recently he's shown a lot of interest in making a new PC arena shooter helping to bring more evidence that this return is in fact really happening earlier this week Bleszinski also filed for a new company which actually already has a website that is very bare-bones at the moment called boskie productions whose twitter page is also already teasing the project named blue streak now Unreal Tournament was easily one of the best arena shooters of its time and if you're a fan of the series or even of Gears of War then this is some great news and hopefully something that we have to look forward to we're just gonna have to wait until this coming Tuesday to get some more solid info and hopefully find out what he's got in store on a similar but sadder note earlier this week Rob Pardo announced that he is leaving Blizzard Entertainment after being one of its main creative minds for the past 17 years Pardo has had a hand in just about every major product Blizzard has released in his time working there and served as lead designer on games like Starcraft brood war Warcraft 3 and its expansion Frozen Throne and of course world Warcraft and its first expansion the Burning Crusade considered by many to be the Golden Age of WoW pardo posted his farewell letter on battlenet and while it is very heartfelt and he discusses loving his time at Blizzard and looking forward to playing more other games in the future as a consumer it's not entirely made clear why he's chosen to leave right now whether it was a personal decision because he's tired of working with that particular company or if someone else made him an offer he does mention in the farewell letter that he is looking forward to the next chapter in his life in the gaming industry so while he is leaving Blizzard Entertainment it has been made clear that this is not the last we'll see of him it's just that whether this is solo project he plans to work on in the future or if he's planning on joining in their dev team is yet to be known in other news this past week oculus technologies suspended all sales and pre-orders in China for the latest version of the oculus rift due to what they refer to as extreme reseller purchases this issue was initially brought up and discussed on reddit where users in China were confused and angry over their pre-orders getting cancelled the main reason for this decision basically comes down to the fact that the oculus rift is currently not in a full retail version but rather a death kit that's meant to be purchased and used by developers to help create more content for the device so whenever someone ends up purchasing it just to flip it and make a lot of profit well that just takes units away from people that actually are planning to make use of it and create more interesting stuff now oculus technologies has discussed the fact that they do still want to find a way to get units to their Chinese developers that want to make use of it but when they plan to do this and how they plan to do it without getting in the hands of resellers is still currently up in the air now last but not least for the news to come out this past week EA was called out by the UK government for what they consider and really what most gamers consider false advertisement back in February EA released a mobile remake of a classic PC titled Dungeon Keeper which was met with a less than favorable response from both fans of the original game and just new mobile gamers that just discovered it the reason being that while the game is technically free to purchase it over uses a passage of time mechanics so much that it's more or less impossible to do anything meaningful in the game without spending real money on gems to take actions faster functionally making the game actually a pay-to-play for those of you that want to do something more than just stare at the screen and do nothing well after some people vocally complained in regards to a advertising the game as free the UK's Advertising Standards Agency decided that such a claim was in fact false and the ad must be redone as well as have all future advertisements clarify that while the game is free to download actually playing it does require payment now this could be some fantastic news not because it's just calling out a company for false advertising but because it might help set a precedent for how we handle pricing it in mobile games this has been a really hotly debated issue and a lot of users are getting very frustrated with all the different pricing methods and surprise fees and actually calling a company out might help get the ball rolling on finding a new better way to price and distribute these mobile titles hopefully this makes it so that more games of this style will no longer be advertised as free and as a result companies will try to find a new better way of pricing them and if we're lucky it'll actually be a step up from the current model well that was just a quick look at some of the biggest news stories come out this past week I plan to see you guys 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