Category: #mechacommunity

Last week saw some exciting updates in the mecha community:

• The Steam release for Star Renegades formally announced for September 8th! Star Renegades is a unique pixel art strategy RPG featuring mecha, developed by Massive Damage Inc., developers of Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander.
• John Bear Ross’ novel Defiance: Junctionworld Book 1 is a finalist for the 2020 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel. Congrats to Bear Ross!
• Although Mecha Knights: Nightmare had its release date pushed back into 2021, work continues! Damian Kubiak posts development updates on the game.
• New teaser trailer dropped for Galahad 3093. No announced release date, but the developer has a Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram presence. Keep an eye on this one.

Last week saw some exciting updates in the mecha community:

• Mecha Knights: Nightmare pushed back its release date to early 2021. Mecha Knights is a mecha action shooter soon to be released on Steam.
• Rebelmini’s Motorpool Kickstarter is now sending out backers’ rewards. Keep an eye on your email, and update your email with them ASAP.
• Zimmerit posted a new article on Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed.
• Wargaming.net’s World of Warships announces a collaboration with Hasbro’s Transformers. The event, called One Shall Stand, will release new ships skins featuring Bumblebee, Rumble, Optimus Prime, and Megatron.
• According to PCGamer, fans of the defunct mecha game Hawken have reinvigorated the game. The Hawakening team managed to get single player version of the game running. Instructions on downloading the client can be found at hawakening.com.

Last week saw some interesting updates in the mecha community (mouseover underlined names for Mechapedia links).

• Rebelmini’s Motorpool Kickstarter was a success! Congratulations to Rebelminis and John Bear Ross! Motorpool consists of armor and infantry figures for tabletop gaming in 15mm and 28mm scale sold as printable .stl files.
• Alex Connolly is working on the next Motorpool vehicle design.
• Orbital Speed Studio pushed back Dual Gear‘s Steam release date to July 29th. Dual Gear is a forthcoming PC game inspired by Japanese console games, like the Front Mission series.
• Sean Suchanya released a new sketch of the Siegfried, a mech for the game Eisenfront.
• Ksen posted a new art piece, robot sketch 113.
• Emerson Tung, lead concept artist for iD Software, uploaded 30+ Tankhead images to Artstation.

Last week saw some interesting updates in the mecha community.

• John Bear Ross 3d printed the 15mm version of the MegaTank for the Motorpool Kickstarter by Rebel Minis. Motorpool consists of armor and infantry figures for tabletop gaming in 15mm and 28mm scale sold as printable .stl files.
• Sean Suchanya released the new Weapons Pack A in 1/100 scale resin on the Centerfire Hobbies site. As a reminder, the Mastiff, Doberman, Hornet, and Gauntlet in 1/100 scale are also available for direct order. Although the weapons pack is for Eisenfront, they can be used on any humanoid figure in 1/100.
• Rattapoom Kotchapong has begun using Autodesk Sketch.
• Ksen posted a new art piece, robot sketch 112.
• Tkachenko Andrey posted a new art piece, Mechanic from the League of Mechanics. He is working on a new art book.
• The makers of Obsidian Protocol released a first look on the DTG-30M Mutt’s new reduced poly model.