Sadly, it has no heated bed planned. And it would be more complicated than just tossing one onto the platform to add one.

It'll be under $300, It will almost certainly be $250 like the non-early-bird price (though it probably won't come with the free filament like the IGG pledge rewards do).

As for updates, the last one was before CES, with a preview render of their CES booth setup, there wasn't a regular update email however. I would assume that they were pretty busy at CES though, so I'll forgive it.