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October 16th is National Boss Day - the best holiday of the year! To celebrate, Outspark is offering gamers a chance to show their bosses just how much they care. Players around the world are invited to come together in the free-to-play MMORPGs Fiesta and Secret of the Solstice and celebrate the one universal constant: Love for our bosses!

National Boss Day comes but once a year, and Outspark has gone all-out to allow the lowly workers of the world the opportunity to finally reward their boss’ hard work and dedication with much-deserved greeting cards, gifts, and magic fireballs to the head.

Log into Fiesta and Secret of the Solstice today and join in the National Boss Day festivities by repaying the bosses for all their help in the last year. The Outspark Game Masters will be spawning progressively more difficult bosses - and handing out progressively better rewards as players slay their way up the corporate ladder.

The celebration continues through the weekend, so there’s still plenty of time to express your love for your boss!

Prepaid SparkCash cards are now available in Target stores across the country! Starting today, you can find SparkCash cards in any Target in the continental US.

SparkCash cards come in $10 and $25 increments, and are a perfect way to grab cool premium gear like mounts, pets, and power-ups if you don’t have a credit card or can’t buy things online. Best of all, everyone that redeems the special 10-digit code on their SparkCash cards in September and October will receive FREE bonus items, including free plays of Remi’s Rare Finds and Blue Lucky Balls!

For more information, or to find the Target store nearest you, check out Biski’s thread in the Outspark forums now.

Earth Day is later this month, and we’ve been working on a special little something in preparation for the event. New items and a unique contest is on the way. We can’t say much more, but for now keep your eyes on Outspark.com for the latest news.

Get ready for some cool stuff!

We had the pleasure of meeting with the fine folks at Allakhazam during the 2008 Game Developers Conference last Month to talk about Outspark, our games and plans for the future. They recently published the writeup and we encourage you to take a look!

Some highlights:

It was great to hear about the time focused on their games being a service, not a boxed product that, once you buy you as a consumer, have no other interaction with the company. All too many times MMOers are forced to deal with this type of publisher and developer attitude and companies like Outspark seem to be bringing the service portion of our games back to us.

Creating a play environment which is safe and playable for all players, regardless of age, is something they’re committed to. Helping Outspark in this goal is the fact that their staff is made up of Americans who both live and work in the market to which they’re providing this service. The unique challenges that must be undertaken to assure that all laws and operating procedures are easier when your entire staff is on the same page. That Outspark takes understanding their market and supplying a well defined and directed service across all areas of operation is something that truly warms my heart. All too often we see games being published in other countries without any sort of localization, poor or understaffed customer service teams, and little to no translation, and it shows! These games are not like that.

Thanks again to Tovin and AutumnKiss of Allakhazam! Click on the link below to read the full article.

GDC 2008: Outspark! (Allakhazam)