MechWarrior Online sales pass $5 million before launch
Though MechWarrior Online will be free-to-play when it launches, players have already coughed up more than $5 million to play the beta version through its Founder's Program. Things are looking good for the stompy robot sim, then, and publisher Infinite Game Publishing is pre...
READ MORE >MechWarrior Online open beta delayed
Good little MechWarrior that you are, you're may be reading this from your repurposed fighter jet seat, headset atop your melon, dual joysticks in hand and pedals underfoot, eagerly waiting for MechWarrior Online's open beta to launch today. Ah. Problem. You've clearly misse...
READ MORE >"I thought there was a thread on it last week. Maybe I'm going crazy."
see all 9 commentsMechWarrior Tactics preview
MechWarrior Tactics will be free to play, but it offers a bit of a change from traditional turn-based strategy games.
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Year and years ago, MW2 didn't automatically translate into "Modern Warfare 2"; PC gamers were using that shorthand to refer to the fine giant...
READ MORE >"The year is 3025. You gotta wait a couple years till the in-game clock advances that far."
see all 42 commentsMechWarrior Online heats up in Caustic Valley
Just as MechWarrior Online boasts an icy map where the cold messes with your mech, so it's also getting a roasty-toasty level with hazardous heat, named Caustic Valley. Come peep the trailer.
READ MORE >"! what he hell, there is a SP mode, pm me if you know know one will know."
see all 4 commentsMechWarrior Online trailer visits the Frozen City
MechWarrior Online developer Piranha Games has revealed the icy level Frozen City and its chilling effects on combat, with a video for you to look at and everything.
READ MORE >"That was my original though as well, then the beta footage started leaking and I lost control of ..."
see all 15 commentsMechWarrior Online early access program detailed
MechWarrior Online will allow players to purchase early access with tiered bonuses starting in June, developer Piranha Games announced today. The closed beta is kicking off this week.
READ MORE >"This is going to be the only game that will make me wish I still had a joystick with a twist axis :("
see all 10 commentsMechWarrior Online mech customization detailed
As every mech pilot knows, tweaking your mech is half the fun of stomping around in a towering killbot. Piranha Games has lifted the wraps off MechWarrior Online's mech customisation, which'll let you mess with everything from guns to paintwork.
READ MORE >"I was about 5 when my brother got this. It's what got me into the whole universe. "
see all 15 commentsMechWarrior Online first gameplay trailer stomps out
At long last, the first first gameplay trailer for stompy free-to-play revival MechWarrior Online has been released. Yes indeedy there are plenty of lasers, missiles, cannons and explosions.
READ MORE >"That vid looks damn sexy! Gawd I am such a Battletech geek it hurts. So happy this IP is back in ..."
see all 22 commentsMechWarrior Tactics' hexy first screens revealed
While free-to-play stompy mech games Hawken, Reign of Thunder, and MechWarrior Online focus on piloting the lovely robots, MechWarrior Tactics puts you in command of a squad of them. Announced last month, it's now been revealed in the first screenshots.
READ MORE >"I used to play a game called Crescent Hawk's Revenge (it actually yelled the title at you when ..."
see all 19 commentsMechWarrior Tactics coming this year, will be free-to-play
MechWarrior Tactics, a new turn-based, free-to-play, tactical combat game set in the BattleTech universe has been announced for North American PCs.
READ MORE >"I found one of these at a flea market a couple years ago but never got it to work."
see all 43 commentsMechWarrior Online aiming for 12v12
Piranha's free-to-play stompy robot game MechWarrior Online is aiming to offer multiplayer mech melee in size 12v12, assuming it can deliver a "solid play experience" at that scale. This revelation and more come from a new community Q&A.
READ MORE >""Hardcore Battletech devotees..."? You mean all gamers in general. haha"
see all 19 commentsMechWarrior Online concept art reveals evolution of 'Atlas'
MechWarrior Online developer Alex Iglesias discusses his work redesigning the classic mechs in the upcoming free-to-play title, and shows off concept art featuring the 'Atlas' mech.
READ MORE >"then again, this is all old news to me, as I read the interview and saw the picture right after ..."
see all 10 commentsMechWarrior Online not 'Pay-2-Win'
MechWarrior Online developer Piranha Games has insisted that the mech combat action-sim won't be "pay-2-win," provocatively explaining "why you want MechWarrior Online to be free-to-play."
READ MORE >"This is going to be awesome! I know that I won't *have* to pay for it, but I would!"
see all 10 commentsMechWarrior reboot was derailed by Microsoft blocking PS3
The initial incarnation of Piranha Games' MechWarrior reboot, revealed yesterday to have become free-to-play PC exclusive MechWarrior Online, was stymied by "a Microsoft restriction" blocking a PS3 edition.
READ MORE >"I think that's one of the issues they'll be addressing. Every Mech will be useful and it wont ..."
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"It plays like Counter-Strike with mechs at the moment (which I find quite compelling). Gameplay ..."
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