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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:29 pm
Remember the MechWarrior series? It's entirely possible that some readers looking at this article right now are too young to remember the heyday of wrestling with their joystick that looked like an alien penis while stomping around in a big lump of virtual bipedal metal, but believe us grizzled old veterans when we say that those games were great. Sure, we've had other giant robot games since then -- mostly from Japan, and mostly on consoles -- but none have quite matched up to the original mech sims.
The series is set to make a triumphant return in the second half of 2012 thanks to newly formed publisher Infinite Game Publishing (IGP) and developer Piranha Games, who have previously worked on the Need for Speed series, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen and Duke Nukem Forever. The series has passed through the hands of a number of publishers over the years, including Activision, Microprose and Microsoft, eventually ending up in the hands of Canadian newcomers IGP for this new title.
Read more here: http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/224475/mechwarrior-returning-as-free-to-play-pc-title/
GOA.Luke*BK*
The series is set to make a triumphant return in the second half of 2012 thanks to newly formed publisher Infinite Game Publishing (IGP) and developer Piranha Games, who have previously worked on the Need for Speed series, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen and Duke Nukem Forever. The series has passed through the hands of a number of publishers over the years, including Activision, Microprose and Microsoft, eventually ending up in the hands of Canadian newcomers IGP for this new title.
Read more here: http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/224475/mechwarrior-returning-as-free-to-play-pc-title/
GOA.Luke*BK*