I love the PC game Battletech. It’s one of my favourite strategy games of all time – I even prefer it to the XCOM reboot it is based on. Battletech’s story is great and the mechanics are even better. I’ve played the game for about 500 hours in total.

As such, I was anxiously awaiting that the game’s publisher Paradox would announce the development of a sequel. Which will probably never happen now, as The Lamplighters League, the latest game by Harebrained Schemes (which developed both Battletech and the PC adaptations of Shadowrun), has flopped massively. Paradox seems to have seen this coming and laid off most of the Harebrained Schemes staff pre-emptively during the summer.

Apparently, Harebrained Schemes did pitch Battletech 2 to Paradox at some point, but the publisher didn’t want it to happen because the IP for the project wasn’t owned by neither party.