Coleman announced on April 20, 2007 that InMediaRes was in negotiations to acquire the licenses for Classic BattleTech and Shadowrun from WizKids as Fantasy Productions' license was set to expire.
MechAssault takes place in the BattleTech universe, a science-fiction universe that often centers around pitched battles between human factions in control of combat robots, called BattleMechs.
MechAssault: Phantom War is one of the games in the popular MechWarrior series and is part of the BattleTech universe created by FASA.
BattleTech | Multiplayer BattleTech: EGA | Battletech | Terra (BattleTech) |
It is named in honor of Michael A. Stackpole, a science fiction and fantasy author known for his Star Wars and Battletech books.
Its name is derived from the Capellan Reaches, the region of space spreading out from Terra towards the star system Capella, and for the Capellan Hegemony, once centered on Capella, which was one of the Confederation's founding members.
Dragon's Fury, fictional faction in the MechWarrior: Dark Age table top war game set in the BattleTech universe
He also worked for the German company Fantasy Productions on their version of the BattleTech game, producing art for the Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised (2003), Handbook: House Steiner (2004), and Classic Battletech Master Rules, Revised Ed. (2004).
This was accomplished in the fall of 2003 when WizKids agreed to grant IMR an exclusive license for publishing new, canon BattleTech fiction online.
Developed by Day 1 Studios and published by Microsoft, MechAssault was initiated when Denny Thorley of Day 1 Studios approached Jon Kimmich of Microsoft about developing an original BattleTech game built from the ground up to support console play.
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries was released in September 1996 as a stand-alone add-on to MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat and the last BattleTech game made by Activision.
Renegade Legions Leviathan module was used as the base for FASA's Battletech new aerospace rules known at the time as BattleSpace.
FASA signed an agreement with Roc Publishing in 1991 that kicked off with Robert Thurston's Legend of the Jade Phoenix series for Battletech (1991).
Ironically, the Destroids served as the basis for some of the early Battlemechs of Battletech fame, and the Destroid missions adopt an isometric view very similar to the MechWarrior 3050 game for the SNES.