Catalyst Games Lab has recently launched their new Kickstarter for BattleTech: Mercenaries and is smashing those stretch goals like a PPC through a Dodge Dart. As of this writing, Catalyst needed $50,000 to fund the project but with 23 days left in the campaign, they have reached more than $4.5 million! That’s a lot of C-bills.   I jumped in at the Recruit level, but I’ll likely buy a lot of the add-ons when I finally check out. Unlike a lot of other Kickstarters I’ve backed, this campaign has added a ton of cool swag to the stretch goals and it really is an incentive for more people to back the project. There are new maps, buttons, patches, “Salvage Boxes” (blind buy boxes of Mechs), challenge coins, novels, a metric $#!+ ton of new mechs and vehicles, t-shirts, comics… and there are tons of options within these choices to pick your favorite faction, clan, or merc group. Take my paycheck. All of it. Man, it’s a good time to be a BattleTech fan. Link to KS

In an emotional video posted today, Winters SEO announced that he's leaving Deployment Zone TV. Link to the YouTubes. You can watch his explanation video above and listen to the hobby LEGEND of LEGENDS explain it for himself, but if I can briefly summarize, running a business is hard and the best way forward for Jamie is to go solo. He'll keep producing content for YouTube subscribers and has four tiers of memberships available. I've been a subscriber for Winters for a long time, even before he showed his face or even showed his dice rolls, and I immediately signed up for tier 3 immediately. He's my favorite YouTuber by a mile and I really hope he does well and this is a good move for him. As a former small business owner, I certainly understand where he's coming from and how physically and emotionally draining running a business is and I'm glad I'm out.  Good luck, Winters, you have my sword!