Harebrained Schemes

A designer at Harebrained Schemes, the studio behind BattleTech, has resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment by six women, Waypoint reports. Tyler Carpenter was accused of repeated unwanted sexual advances and manipulation including in one case groping. “[F]rankly, everything is true,” he told the site.

Necropolis, a Souls-inspired dungeon romp that I didn’t love, is getting overhauled. In the next couple weeks, the developers plan to make the game more intuitive, and in the coming months they’re gonna add more enemy and level variety and make the game more challenging. Fingers crossed that the game becomes, you… Read more

Shadowrun: Hong Kong just got a free six-hour expansion. Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition augments the cyberpunk tactical RPG with a bonus campaign, dev commentary, and numerous tiny improvements. If you already own Shadowrun: Hong Kong, it’s completely free. Nice one, Harebrained Schemes.

Necropolis—Harebrained Schemes’ roguelike dungeon-crawler with the cool abstracted art style—will be hitting Steam on March 17. There’s going to be four-player co-op, too, so maybe you’ll all live a little longer. Read more

This single piece of concept art is all the info we have so far on Harebrained Schemes' next Shadowrun Returns campaign, which is hitting Kickstarter next month. Dragonfall was a huge improvement over the original game/campaign, so it should be interesting to see what they'll come up with next. Read more

Here's a closer look at the Shadowrun RPG's upcoming expansion, Dragonfall, courtesy of a new trailer. The Kickstarter update also mentions two other things: first, the expansion's release date has been pushed back to February 27, and second, the much-anticipated Quicksave patch is already live for the original game.