Today I have a very special Free Game Friday for you guys. What makes it special is that it includes five games, and they are all of the mech genre. It’s really rare for a mech game to get made lately, let alone to have them all be free to play. 2012 is really going to be a great year for mech games, with one of them playable already and the rest soon to come.
An interview with piranha games president Russ Bullock about MechWarrior Online and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries.
Expect the game to only work offline right now.
As we trend ever deeper into a world of games that require servers maintained by the developer or publisher, we see more and more games disappearing from the world. What happens when these games are shut down? What does it take for a game to survive beyond this point?
Most modern games that have online components like destiny rely so heavily on co op between players that even if you had a full disc version popping it in and playing won't be a fun experience as you can't play the actual game after hitting a wall with difficulty levels of they even boot
But classic titles like vice city will still be the same in 2049 as they were in 2001 provided you play on a disc not stripped down digital versions that have the soundtrack cut out ten years later