Seen in a recent episode of The Big Bang The­ory*. $395 from DC Direct.

*Star­ring every late model Gen­er­a­tion Xer’s pre­teen crush Dan­ica McKel­lar.

The Mechwarrior/Battletech fran­chise seemed to fade out right around the time Microsoft bought out FASA , so it’s nice to see it get look in by a new mob.

Whats peeked my inter­est  is that the movie above is being touted as in-game footage. If it is, it means I’ll be upgrading/buying a new com­puter before the launch date for sure. I’ll be damned if I’m play­ing a Mech­war­rior game on con­sole. Steel Bat­tal­ion not with­stand­ing, con­sole con­trollers are far too sim­plis­tic to accu­rately sim­u­late dri­ving giant mechan­i­cal robots across bomb strewen landscape.

Real work­ing Nightvi­sion Gog­gles? Yes, please!

(via Engad­get)

UPDATE: JB HiFi seem to be tak­ing pre­orders now. $199 seems like a rea­son­able enough price, con­sid­er­ing it’s goign for US$149 in America.