Dec 7, 2007
The boss of the now-defunct FASA Studio has established a new development house and has gotten the rights to a number of IPs back from Microsoft.
Jordan Weisman's new studio, Smith & Tinker, has the rights to Crimson Skies, Shadowrun and MechWarrior. According to the studio's official website, it also has the rights to additional properties from the FASA back catalogue.
"We're not quite ready to announce our plans for each property, but please be assured that our goal is to
The next title in the Mechwarrior series will be a
free-to-play team-based multiplayer BattleMech sim exclusively for the PC, the game's developers announced this week. The
plainly-titled Mechwarrior Online will launch in Summer of 2012, and
developers Piranha/Smith & Tinker have already started work on building the
game's community...
Giant
robot wars will return with the upcoming release of MechWarrior Online. It’s
the first new MechWarrior game we’ve seen in about ten years – and today,
GamesRadar and our friends at PC Gamer
are hosting the first trailer for MechWarrior Online made with the game’s
in-game engine. Have a look and follow the jump for more details…
Piranha Games revealed the latest gameplay trailer for their in-beta mech shooter, MechWarrior Online today, showcasing the game's new River City urban combat...
Rumor has it that EA is willing to spend one million dollars to acquire a former Infinity Ward studio head. Activision canned Infinity Ward's leaders, Vince Zampella and Jason West, last month, citing "insubordination." Doesn't look like the duo will be unemployed for long, unless they're enjoying the leisure. In a recommendation posted on Zampella's LinkedIn page, a former Infinity Ward employee wrote:
"Rumor in the industry is that EA placed a million-dollar bounty for snapping up any IW studio lead, like Vince. Just the fact that the rumor is out there should speak volumes about how badly people want Vince working on their products."
It would certainly be interesting if either Zampella or West went to EA...

Activision's legal action against former Infinity Ward heads Vince Zampella and Jason West has gained further weight, with Electronic Arts officially added to the list of defendants in the $400m cross-complaint. The accusations against the Redwood software behemoth include a protracted campaign to lure Zampella and West away from their contractual commitments to Activision.
Attempts were made at the highest levels of EA, says Activision, to “disrupt and destroy Infinity Ward” – leveraging the losses to Infinity Ward's Call of Duty series into gains for EA's properties, such as floundering rival franchise, Medal of Honor...

Medal of Honor, EALA and DICE's modern-day series reboot, will be released October 12, 2010, almost exactly one month before Call of Duty: Black Ops releases on November 9th. It's a franchise face-off almost ten years in the making...

From high above the stage at the Orpheum Theater in L.A., a row of monitors descended. Eighteen players entered, and EA showed off Medal of Honor's DICE-developed multiplayer for the first time. The game moved fast - here's what we saw...

Above: Terrorists winning
Speaking to PSM3 magazine, Medal of Honor producer Patrick Liu responded to the controversy over the ability to play against Americans as Taliban soldiers in multiplayer for the upcoming Medal of Honor game...

Disbarred Florida attorney and anti-games activist Jack Thompson wants to halt the release of the new Medal of Honor title, which is scheduled to release on October 12. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Thompson criticizes the first-person shooter, arguing that it poses a ‘demonstrable danger to our troopers’ by providing training materials to insurgents. He also criticizes U.S. soldiers who helped produced the game as well as the ESRB…