Various combat and planetary control screenshots from the EA version of 3025.

I think the "Targeting a Spider" shot was from an internal test and the sparse detail was from the diagnostic mode with the diagnostics turned off.

Another chunk of the GameStorm forum archives is now available.

This is the second piece of the infamous in-character "Coke vs. Pepsi" in-character roleplaying that dominated Skippy's for a month.

Back in 1999, shortly before the MPBT:3025 promotional website was released prior to that year's GenCon, a few of us from the MPBT team were brainstorming with the Kesmai marketing people about ideas for supporting 3025 outside of the game.

An idea that I'd had percolating since before I joined Kesmai was the concept of an on-demand Inner Sphere status map to keep players regularly updated with the real-time House spheres of control. Originally I was thinking that a website would be the proper delivery platform but after Doug (Vernon) and I discussed the potential, we looked into other routes.

Some more retro Solaris images from both the closed beta test in 1996 and the Fujitsu Solaris instance in Japan, sometime in 1999.

My memory may be wrong, but I don't remember the damage coloration ever being blues and red as it shows in the Fujitsu Solaris combat shot.

This is part one of a two part interview with Dave Marsh and Tony Van, the senior producers of the EA version of 3025 after development was ratcheted up after EA's acquisition of Kesmai in 2000.

Mountain Dew. Lots of Mountain Dew. That's the best way to describe the last two weeks of development of Multiplayer BattleTech: 3025 here at Kesmai Studios, an online game division of EA.com and located in Charlottesville, VA.

More of EGA GEnie Round Tables for Bug Reports and Hints & Tips is now available.

Another interesting piece from Kelton about the (vaporware?) EGA Manual: