Long time BattleTech and Mechwarrior gamer here, though I haven't been as active as I've wanted to be on MWO. I wanted to let you all know that my new startup, MegaBots Inc., is dedicated to building real-life mecha - 15 foot tall, 15,000 pound walking combat bipeds that seat two people (a dedicated driver and a gunner) and play the biggest game of paintball you've ever seen.
We've spent the past two years doing R&D on the custom weapon systems and robot powerplants, and have spent the past five months building two prototypes - an upper body prototype of a MegaBot, and an example turret emplacement. Check out the upper body prototype:

We're not joking around - these are real mecha, and we're looking to build at least two and fight them. You can see the concept art that we're working off of here:

Ten points to the first person who correctly guesses who's responsible for that concept art...
In about three weeks, we'll be launching a Kickstarter campaign to build two MegaBots and run the first live-action mecha tournament. I can *promise* you that you'll be interested in some of the Kickstarter levels, if you like playing MWO... and that's all I can say on the subject for now. We'll be releasing a lot more details over the next few weeks as to our longer-term plans, and specifics on how the game is played.
If you want to see giant mecha combat in real life, we're going to need your help, starting now. We need you to like and share our social media presence as far and wide as you can for the next three weeks, and when the Kickstarter campaign kicks off, we'll need you to put out the call again.
Our Facebook page (which has the most content/announcements) is here.
Our Twitter profile is here.
Our Instagram profile is here.
And you can check out a couple of news stories about us appearing with the prototype at the New York Comic Con this past weekend, if you want to learn more - Engadget covered us here, Maglomanic has a video of us here, and Business Insider named us one of the best exhibits at Comic Con!
Thanks folks. Let's take MWO and make it real, and get you all suited up in some real cockpits!