Tag Archives: Piranha Games

A new video for MechWarrior Online has been released, showing a landing party arriving in a landscape filled with “acidic haze and caustic heat.” The high temperatures throughout the entire map will greatly affect gameplay, as everything will tend to overheat. Players can make use of cooler weapons such as ballistics, which contain a reduced heat profile and long-ranged weapons will be beneficial on the map as well. Watch the video below. You can sign up for the closed beta here.

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The Centurion, Piranha Games tells us, is the perfect mech for those who don’t actually know what kind of hulking death tank they want.

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Russ Bullock, president of developer Piranha Games, explains the four pillars of gameplay in MechWarrior Online in the developer video below. Have a watch. Game’s set for August 7, and you can look over the PC specs here. The game is currently slated for a “summer” release with early access starting August 7.

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Can’t get into the MechWarrior Online beta? Here’s over seven minutes of footage which you should probably watch as quickly as possible before Piranha Games shuts it down.

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Early access for MechWarrior Online has been moved from July 17 to August 7 due to “some of the key production hardware was delayed in arriving to the data center.”

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Piranha Games has released a very modest set of minimum system requirements for upcoming MMO sim MechWarrior Online.

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Piranha Games is offering two Founder’s Packages for upcoming free-to-play sim MechWarrior Online, both granting access to the game’s beta tests among other bonuses.

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Check out some in-cockpit and overview gameplay footage of upcoming mech sim MechWarrior Online. Pew pew pew!

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Piranha Games’ upcoming MechWarrior Online is looking pretty fancy in these new screens, which show off the Catapult mech.

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If you have a gaming den full of precision controllers, MechWarrior Online could be a dream come true.

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Piranha Games has released the GDC video for MechWarrior Online, its free-to-play revival of the classic mech sim series.

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Piranha Games has released some new screenshots for MechWarrior Online, the free-to-play revival of the classic mech sim series. The game is slated for PC exclusively in 2012. You still have tome to register a pilot name, so go do it.

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Piranha Games has released the first trailer for MechWarrior Online.

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Piranha Games has published the first developer diary for MechWarrior Online and it contains information on the free-to-play title’s factions and timeline, the later of which corresponds interestingly with the actual calender.

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Piranha has unveiled a new frontline BattleMech, the Dragon. First manufactured in 2754 in Luthien, the Dragon is “a long-range focussed ‘Mech capable of handling threats at all ranges”. It sports a Vlar 300 engine, ten tonnes of Starshield armour, a Telos DecaCluster LRM-10, Imperator-A Autocannon/5, and two Victory 23R Medium Lasers. If you know what that means, you’ve probably already hit the link above for more details.

MechWarrior Online is the free to play revival of the classic mech sim series, expected exclusively for PC in 2012.

Thanks, Massively.

MechWarrior Online will be built on Crytek’s award-winning CryEngine 3. According to a post on the game’s website, Piranha Bytes president Russ Bullock believes the tech will allow for “a truly unique AAA experience”.

The long-awaited return to a beloved PC gaming franchise was announced at the end of October as a free-to-play MMO mech sim which plays out the series canon in real time conflicts.

Thanks, Blue.

Classic mech sim series MechWarrior is back in action, as Piranha finally unveils a long-awaited reboot.

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Concept art created by Piranha Games, the studio behind much of the multiplayer in Duke Nukem Forever, has been released. It shows some of the babes you will be stealing from your opposition’s camp in the Capture the Babe multiplayer mode. There’s also a video below of Duke walking around with the equivalent of Mr. Hankey and tossing it at walls and the like. It doesn’t wear a Santa hat though. To save a bit of face, there’s a jetpack video below as well.

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