Yo! Get comfy, cause this is a long one.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in last week’s Ask Day! We got so much fun stuff in our inbox we ended up having to make it longer than we originally intended. We had a great time talking with you all and answering your questions in a big burst like that. We plan to use our Ask Box more regularly in the future, so feel free to continue dropping your questions and messages in there. We want to hear from you! If you have thoughts, ideas, feelings, just wanna chat or say “Good job!” or “I don’t like this because” or whatever, just hit us up anytime! We want to hear from the folks who have got us here, learn how we can continue to best serve you, and be a bright light for you: http://wearemidboss.tumblr.com/ask

Since our last post, we’ve rolled out an update to our 2064: Read Only Memories release on Steam, Humble, itch.io, and GOG. If you own the deluxe version of the game, or the Sights of Neo-SF art book, you now have access to a new and updated Sights of Neo-SF!

What is Sights of Neo SF? It’s a digital artbook containing over 50 pages of concept sketches, before and after art, stuff from the cutting room floor, and logos. JJSignal really enjoyed putting it together for you, it’s the sort of thing we love seeing from the games we enjoy ourselves! We hope you like it too.

Also! We’ve been promising you news about the release in European markets for PS4. Good news! 2064: Read Only Memories is now available to 20 more European countries as of February 2nd. The only major European markets that we’re missing will be Norway and Portugal, which will come shortly after in the coming weeks. We very much appreciate you bearing with us while we got this figured out. We’re very glad that we can bring the game to you all now though!

While we were working on getting 2064 updated in Europe, and the new artbook, we’ve also been working on some major bug patches, which should go live in the next week or so on PS4 and Steam.

We at MidBoss have been busy in other ways too! We uploaded all photos from GaymerX’s GX4 to our Facebook page! There are now 1000 photos exactly in that album, so you all have a lot of beautiful photos to look through. Be sure to tag each other and share those around, just don’t forget to credit the original photographers! All their info should be right in the image description for you 🙂

While we’re on the subject, we want to give you an update on GaymerX in general: We have no current plans for GX5 in California this year. GaymerX Australia is coming up in late April and is presently our only scheduled event. There will be more news GX East Year Two to come, and we still have a lot of fun stuff planned on the GaymerX side of things. We realize that spaces like ours are going to continue to be important and vital in the coming years so we are not going anywhere. However we do believe that we need to make some changes to the way we’re doing our “main” event to make sure we’re addressing the changing landscape and do so in a way that is also sustainable.

Those of you who follow us on Twitter may have noticed we’ve been tweeting more directly about current political events than we have in the past. While we may be a company whose focus is in video game spaces, we are company of world-focused human beings who are passionate about making this world we share the best place it can be. We were founded on the idea of creating a physical space where people like us could be treated with respect, compassion, and equality.

We’ve worked hard since our first event to be a company that reflects those values in what we make, be that parties, movies, or the video game we’ve poured so much of our souls into these past few years. We can’t help but be upset and angry about the way we’re seeing people being treated in the country that many of us call home.

We want better than this for ourselves. We want better than this for all of you, regardless of where you live and where you’re trying to go. We will not stay quiet about the mistreatment of others. We’re scared too, but we believe that it’s important that we use our voice to fight for the world we believe in.

Thank you!