If you'd prefer to check out BattleTech sooner, you'll be glad to know that a variety of board games and expansions are on sale ahead of the 40th Anniversary Edition's launch. Your best bet is to ...

We don’t often get definitive sales numbers in the world of tabletop gaming, but when we do, it’s because a publisher has something to crow about. Catalyst Game Labs’ BattleTech line had one hell of a ...

Harebrained Schemes was founded in 2011 by BattleTech co-creator Jordan Weisman and game designer Mitch Gitelman, both veterans of the MechCommander series of real-time strategy games. After ...

As a mercenary, I’ve learned to hate complications. “Developing situations” might be the technical term. It could be anything. Maybe you send down your Lance, your team of four mechs, for a simple ...

Shams Jorjani is no stranger to signing big projects. As Paradox's vice president of business development, he's been intimately involved in the deals that birthed Cities: Skylines and Pillars of ...

Rocket boosting a 60-ton mech to the top of mountain then raining down missiles on your enemy will never not be cool. At the same time, seeing every single piece of that salvo miss the one body part ...

The real-world story of the BattleTech series is more confusing and impenetrable than the space politics of its fictional universe. It's seen several partial buyouts, more than three decades of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The thing to clarify here is that MechWarrior was more the ...

If you're a young gamer, I wouldn't blame you for not knowing the name BattleTech. The title MechWarrior is probably more familiar to the younger generation thanks to its series of mecha combat ...