Creative director Randy Varnell wrote in a letter today that many folks, himself included, are moving on to a highly anticipated unannounced project at Gearbox. Meanwhile, the last round of skins including several Borderlands themed outfits and balance patch changes will roll out for Battleborn. As of this week, there will be no more Battleplans and there is currently no planned content after the Fall Update. Details of any future changes or news will be made on our forums or through social media, so keep your radars on. Varnell says the servers will up and active for the forseeable future and that any future changes will come through social media, but it seems the team oriented hero shooter is closing up shop, three months after launching a free to play version. Members of the Battleborn subreddit are mourning a loss that seemed somewhat inevitable. As user ux. Abednego writes Damn dude. So sad to see this finally happening, as expected as it was. Ive been obsessed since the CTT, and Ive never been as involved in a games community as with Battleborn. You. Tube Stars Who Met With Feds to Grow Trump Themed Business Were Paid by Trump Campaign. A pair of familiar faces from the 2. US Commerce Departments Twitter account Monday afternoon. But by Tuesday morning they were gone. You. Tube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardsonbetter known as Diamond and Silk, respectivelywere invited to the Commerce Departments headquarters this week, apparently to discuss ways in which they could expand their business. The pair runs a political blog aimed at promoting President Trump and denigrating his critics. The Commerce Department revealed Diamond and Silks visit in a photo posted on the departments official Twitter account, which said the duo had met with the Minority Business Development Agency MBDA to discuss how to grow their business and build their brand. The tweet was deleted hours later. A Commerce spokesperson told Gizmodo the tweet was deleted out of an abundance of caution as the department was not clear it had received permission to post the photo. Diamond and Silk were here to talk about minority business development, the spokesperson said. They reached out to the Acting National Director of MBDA, whom they had met previously, to discuss how best to help the minority business community. The spokesperson declined to elaborate on how the Commerce Department was helping Diamond and Silk build their brand. At present, they offer only two products in their online store, both Trump branded pins. Mondays meeting was arranged by Chris Garcia, a former Trump campaign advisor whom the president appointed acting head of the MBDA this year. The meeting would seem perfectly innocent, were it not for the fact that Diamond and Silk were paid Trump campaign consultants. Lenovo System Update Firewall Ports List. The Trump campaign denied paying Diamond and Silk for their regular on stage appearances at political rallies. But an amendment to the campaigns 2. FEC report, released in May 2. You. Tube stars were in fact cut a check shortly after the election a meager 1,2. Questions had been raised by reporters last summer over what Trump aides brushed off as coincidence Ace Specialties, a company the Trump campaign reportedly paid more than 2 million for campaign swag, also supplied the pro Trump merchandise sold on Diamond and Silks website. A campaign spokesperson told ABC News in April 2. Diamond and Silk have never been paid by the campaign, which you can verify in our FEC reports. There is no connection with Ace. We very much appreciate the unwavering support and enthusiasm, from Diamond and Silk. Daniel Scavino, a Trump campaign advisor who now serves as the director of White House social media and assistant to the president, first invited the bloggers to attend a Republican debate in November 2. Politico reports. Two months later, Trump introduced Diamond and Silk at an event in Iowa by noting, Theyve become very famous and very rich. Later asked by a Politico reporter what Trump meant when he said theyd grown very rich, Diamond replied Ask Donald. The pair went on to stump for Trump in Mississippi, South Carolina, and Iowa, drawing energetic responses from crowds of 1. Days before the Nov. Lara Trump, the presidents daughter in law, at a North Carolina event, where they accused then candidate Hillary Clinton of considering herself a slave master. While their ties to Trump are often portrayed as a mere chance encounter, the pair now frequently rub elbows with the conservative elite. Theyve landed repeat appearances on Sean Hannitys Fox News program as well as his radio show. In April, they attended the wedding of White House political aide Omarosa Manigault, a quiet affair at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Now after having been declared paid Trump campaign consultants, a former Trump campaign staffer is ushering the You. Tube celebrities into a federal office building, allegedly to help expand their Trump themed businessthe very existence of which remains curious, given Trumps propensity for suing people who try to profit off his name, even when their name also happens to be Trump.