With GenCon 2019 behind us, I can share a few tidbits from the Catalyst Game Labs crew via their What’s up with Catalyst? session. Present were John Helfers (fiction director), Bryn Bills (Leviathans line developer), Randall N. Bills (managing director), Loren L. Coleman (owner), Brent Evans (BattleTech line developer), and Jason Hardy (Shadowrun line developer). Highlights: At […]
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GenCon 2018 is almost a wrap, and Catalyst Game Labs had a What’s up with Catalyst? session where the-powers-that-be shared insights into the BattleTech product line and the future of CGL. Present were Loren L. Coleman (owner), Randall N. Bills (managing director), Brent Evans (BattleTech line developer), John Helfers (fiction director) and others. The group covered a […]
Read More →BattleTechGear.com (from HBS) has two new crowdfunded BattleTech merchandise campaigns: BattleTech Stein – ceramic pint with a really awesome metal Atlas-Skull top ($40) Solaris VII Coaster Set – featuring 6 “commemorative” coasters (and tin) full of Solaris VII lore ($20) Both products are crowdfunded – meaning if the minimum order quantity isn’t reached, the products won’t be produced. They’re both over […]
Read More →Are you a BattleTech geek that also likes to write? Want to cover MechWarrior Online or news about the upcoming BATTLETECH game? Interested in sharing your thoughts and reviews on the latest products and releases? Sarna.net is looking for a new writer or two for the News section. If you are interested, please get ahold of Nic and share […]
Read More →Fantastic news just in time for the holidays: Harebrained Schemes has secured a limited license from Topps to create and sell BattleTech merchandise. They can only sell a limited number of items, so to prioritize what gets ultimately gets made, they’ve opened a crowdfunding website at BattleTechGear.com (EDIT 2020: this domain is now a scam website). Only items that […]
Read More →At GenCon 2016 last weekend, we were treated to an awesome surprise: a playable Super-Pre-Alpha demo of BATTLETECH. This game is going to be awesome. The Super-Pre-Alpha demo was playable by anyone attending the convention, and featured a single mission where your lance attempts to capture a salvage base. I had the opportunity to play it for a while […]
Read More →The BATTLETECH Kickstarter is about to launch! September 29, 2015 @ 10:00am PDT:
Read More →Harebrained Schemes, who will soon be launching a Kickstarter campaign for a BATTLETECH video game, is hosting a Live Stream with No Guts No Galaxy on Monday Sep 28 at 10am and 6pm PDT to talk about the project. Check it out!
Read More →Harebrained Schemes has just announced the date of their BATTLETECH Kickstarter: September 29, 2015 @ 10:00am PDT They’re hoping to Alpha Strike the Kickstarter by getting as much support as they can within the first hour of the Kickstarter going live: I, for one, am very excited! Looking forward to seeing what the rewards are at each level.
Read More →A few weeks ago at GenCon, I sat down with Mitch Gitelman and Mike McCain of Harebrained Schemes. That week, HBS had announced an upcoming kickstarter for BATTLETECH – tactical ‘Mech combat for the PC. Needless to say the community was pretty excited, and I was lucky enough to get some time with the two of them to ask what BATTLETECH will look […]
Read More →Impy and NGNGTv are hosting the 3rd Annual RJC Memorial 24 hour Charity Livestream benefiting the Autism Science Foundation on July 2nd starting at 7:00 pm EST. Over the last two years, they’ve raised over $24,000 and this year’s goal is to reach $20,000 alone!
Read More →Hi everyone! I want to thank everyone that took the Sarna 2014 Survey. We had 941 responses, which has given us a ton of great feedback! Besides the survey questions, there were several hundred written suggestions, ideas, bugs and thoughts on how to improve the site. I’ve spent the last day pouring over the results, […]
Read More →Hi everyone, Please take a moment to help us improve Sarna.net by taking a survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sarnanet2014 The survey asks 20 questions and should only take 5 minutes of your time. We will use it to help us better understand how we can improve the site. All feedback is anonymous (unless you want to leave your […]
Read More →Atraitus has a great YouTube channel reviewing old videogames, and he started with MechCommander Gold. Check out his super in-depth video review below:
Read More →Every year, Editors, Readers and Admins on the BattleTechWiki are called to nominate contributors’ names for the annual Founder’s Awards. These awards are given in recognition to the amazing individuals who made significant contributions to the wiki in 2013. If you’ve visited the wiki in the last year and came across a great article, or […]
Read More →5,700 12th-year students taking their history exam found a fun surprise when they opened their packets to an image depicting the Russian Revolution: A Marauder somehow mistakenly found its way into the Storming the Winter palace on 25th October 1917 by Nikolai Kochergin. OR MAYBE THAT’S WHAT REALLY HAPPENED!? Whoops.
Read More →I was first introduced to the BattleTech universe in 1994. Twelve years old at the time, my family would often take vacations from our home in Grand Rapids (Michigan) to Chicago, only a three-hour drive away. On one of these trips, we stumbled upon the BattleTech Center at Chicago’s North Pier. I was instantly hooked […]
Read More →I was at GenCon this last week enjoying the insanity (you should really try to go at least once if you’ve never been), and was able to take notes during Catalyst’s “What’s Up With BattleTech?” seminar put on by Herb Beas, the BattleTech line developer. The atmosphere for the session was rather casual. Instead of just […]
Read More →Catalyst Game Labs is at Origins this week, and they’ve announced they’re having a sale of 25% off all products in the BattleCorps shop. Use the coupon code ‘ORIGINS13’ during checkout to get the discount!
Read More →Herbert Beas, of Catalyst Game Labs, will be hosting the 5th Live BattleChat of 2013 this Saturday May 18, 2013. There will be two chats, at 12pm and 8pm (EST), running for an hour. This is your opportunity to ask Herbert, the Catalyst Line Developer, anything you want about the BattleTech universe. The chat will […]
Read More →Who are the writers behind the Sarna.net Blog? Read more to find out… Abe still remembers that first shot, fired from his Crusader on a Ryoken on a harsh jungle map in a friend’s basement. That first LRM15 salvo destroyed the Ryoken. And a love affair was born on that day that carried through twenty […]
Read More →Welcome to the new Sarna.net blog! While the look of Sarna.net has changed quite a bit since it was created in 1998 – checking the Wayback Machine can be a bit embarrassing – the main goal of the site has always been the same: to (modestly) be the most comprehensive BattleTech resource available on the […]
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