What happend with the Candy features,why were not implemented?
They were experimental features and the candy developers were unable to complete them due to the everyday life.
I believe area lights were in a usable state, so I hope that they get merged in. Maybe Kupoman or Moguri could assist, as I believe they could really give a graphical boost.
i guess they will work on it when they get time… 
SSS and Area Lights i have used and it works well in BGE !
I would love to have then placed, or as an addon! I downloaded the old build, and I have no idea how to get them going - tutorials, applications? Can this work with 2.70+?? I certainly hope so!
keep up the good work, i can’t help but feel that it has gone quiet.
Mokazon’s been awol since April. Agoose recently updated the area lamps patch so that could probably get included; the differential needs to be uploaded to fabricator. SSS probably could also.
I’ll try work on it, learn to apply the patch to other versions. Blender updates so fast!!! It’s hard to keep up! =P
The best would be to add the patches to a fork version.