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New MechWarrior Announced, MechWarrior4 To Be Distributed Free

Posted by Soulskill on from the as-in-beer dept.

Vamman writes "In light of the recent announcement of the new MechWarrior game, Smith and Tinker has granted our online dev team MekTek.net (which has been supporting MechWarrior for almost a decade now) permission to release MechWarrior 4 entirely for free using the same type of distribution model that id Games used for Quake3's free release.

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  1. All of MechWarrior 4 will be free by Gwarsbane · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everything, will be free. Vengence, Blackknight, the packs and Mercs. It will also include a whole bunch of maps and MekTek's own MekPaks. It will all be one download more then likely via bit torrent, the ISO image maybe as large as 3 or 4 gigs.