Who doesn't love Battletech and MechWarrior? I certainly do. Never did play much of the tabletop mini game, but I certainly did my fair share DMing MechWarrior back in the day. I also played a couple of MechWarrior games for the PC, and found them entertaining enough.

Last summer (2009 thay is) I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was to be a MechWarrior computer game reboot. If you have a look at some of the footage released you'll understand why (there was a couple of neat live clips involving a Warhammer and an Atlas, but I can't seem to find them anymore). At any rate there was some legal trouble and when I had a look again today there wasn't really a lot to new stuff to be learned. Maybe it died before it was born...

At about the same time there was an announcement that the aging MechWarrior 4 would be released for free download. It never happened either. But you can find plenty of torrents out there, so no worries. The reason I mention this is because I actually ended up playing it, finding that it had an active modding community that had put out several expansions. And even after I got tired of it my then-eight-year-old son continued playing. Customizing mechs and then blowing up stuff - what kid can resist that? So now I can check off MechWarrior on my list of things-a-father-should-teach-his-son :-P