'MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries' revives a classic series in 2018

It's been a long, long time since there was a single-player game in the MechWarrior series -- 2002's MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries has been your only option if you didn't want to play online. Thankfully, a new wave of gamers is about to see what all the fuss was about years ago. Piranha Games (which runs MechWarrior Online) has unveiled MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries, a single-player focused title that has you pursuing a career as a private robot pilot serving on behalf of the houses of the Inner Sphere. The game isn't due until 2018, so there isn't much to say about the exact game mechanics or storyline. Will the invading Clans make an appearance, we wonder?