MechWarrior Online celebrates Steam launch with $100K esports championship

Your giant-robot-piloting skills can finally earn you cash.

Developer Piranha Studios announced this past weekend that it is planning a MechWarrior Online World Championship series in 2016. The competition, and its $100,000 prize purse, should attract some of the MechWarrior community’s best players. This announcement comes as the free-to-play mech battler goes live on Steam for the first time, and Piranha looks to bring in new players. Esports has turned into one of the most common ways to promote a game and get players excited about it, and that’s especially true for games that are free to download and play on PC.