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It has a rather confusing history with several developers and publishers but the Mechwarrior series of mech action-sim games (based on the BattleTech franchised created by FASA) still remains a favorite of PC gamers. Activision published the first two games in the series with the very first one released in 1989 by Tribes creators Dynamix. Mechwarrior 3 was released in 1995 from Microprose and developed by Zipper Interactive before Microsoft bought FASA and published the final Mechwarrior game in 2002 (with some stand alone expansions made by Cyberlore)

Microsoft decided to sell off the interactive rights to the FASA properties, including Mechwarrior, to a company called Smith & Tinker in 2007 (co-founded by FASA creator Jordan Wisemen). Since then there's been no word on the company's plans for the franchise. But who among us doesn't want to see a new next-gen Mechwarrior PC game in our hard drives? We think it would sell like hot cakes. 16/01/09