If you want to watch two mechs punch each other in the face, BattleTech is one of the best ways to do that—provided you don't run out of patience waiting for the game to load. As a mercenary, I’ve ...

It’s been over a month since I was first introduced to Battletech via the Beginner’s Box, and since then, I’ve spent more time painting Battletech models than actually playing, so sitting down to ...

BattleTech, as you might expect, is a game about massive mechs stomping around a battlefield, throwing ordnance at one another. But, less obviously, it's also a game about a small business owner ...

Science fiction involving mechs, referred to as “mecha” in Japan, has always held a soft spot in my heart. Japan had Gundam and Macross, the former exploring war and its socio-political ramifications ...

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...

When I first fell in love with BattleTech, in the late 1980’s, it was a popular war game played with dice, figurines, and graph paper. Today, it’s a recently released turn-based PC game that plays a ...

Strategy-RPGs hold a special place in gaming. While other genres have seen great leaps in iteration and scope over the last 20 years or so, Strategy games have remained remarkably still, a testament ...

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It’s like a Katy Perry song, this one. You think you’re immune from its charms and then all of a sudden you’re humming it in the shower and singing while you drive. Battletech is so unforgiving and ...