The Chatterweb: A BattleTech Podcast

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We are back in the studio and beginning the 20th Anniversary of the Chatterweb Podcast and Arbitration Studios! (This episode is late because Knightmare was sick and FINALLY moving back into his Hurricane-damaged home. My bad y'all.) For this special episode, we're talking about the latest BattleTech fiction releases, including Star Crossed Warriors by veteran author Bryan Young...

Play testing and a Spooky Season!

We recorded this episode a little later than intended, so enjoy some October in early November!

For us, October is always a goofy time for the podcast: BattleTech news is, historically, very limited. Fortunately, this year is a little different, and for this episode we're talking about the BattleTech: Gothic suite, a new Fox Patrol story, and some old 'Mech games recently resurrected on XBox...

GenCon 2025, the Gothic experience!

Well, if you saw our second GenCon 2025 episode, then you already know that GenCon is here. In our first episode (which Knightmare accidentally posted out of sequence), we're reflecting a little bit on some of our past GenCon experiences and those special times when we served as a volunteer.

After, we're off to the races, providing an in-depth review of Catalyst Game Labs newest BattleTech...

GenCon 2025 is here! DON'T WORRY, FOR WE ARE HERE!

For our second episode from GenCon 2025, we're talking all about Catalyst Game Labs's newest Kickstarter projects: My Hero Academia, Runefire, and Partha Wars. Afterwards, we're diving deep in the newest BattleTech Continuum universe, the biological nightmare that is BattleTech: Gothic.

On a more sentimental note, we want to take a moment to express our gratitude to all of o...

GenCon 2025 is upon us! That means BattleTech, BattleTech, and more new BattleTech!

Welcome to the first of our GenCon 2025 episodes! Join us as we prepare for the largest tabletop gaming convention in the world! In this episode, Day Zero, we're talking about the amazing BattleTech, and other things we expect to see, do, and buy at the convention. We also drop how convention goers can come and say "hi" to the Chatterweb Podcast...

For the Silveroot!...

This month's Chatterweb Podcast is coming in HOT with our detailed discussion about the latest expansion for MechWarrior: The Clans, Ghost Bear: Flash Storm! We'll also talk about the surprise re-release of MechWarrior 1 and 2 on XBox Game Pass.

Switching gears to our middle segment we have an overview of Big Red-40Tech's "Alternate Clan Invasion" video replete with our own opinions and impressions of i...

Cooking with MrsArbiter...

You're not going crazy or accidentally tuned to "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives" with our man Guy. No, for our May 2025 episode of the Chatterweb, we're diving into MrsArbiter's BattleTech Cookbook, Chandresaker Kurita's: The Art of Food.

After receiving our fill, we'll move onto the newly released BattleTech ForcePacks, and what you could expect from the new MechWarrior 5: The Clans Ghost Bear DLC. (...

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In this month's Chatterweb Podcast we're digging into all of the news from Adepticon 2025. That means we're diving into BattleTech Aces, the new BattleTech Audiobooks, the latest BattleTech Novel, and other amazing BattleTech products headed our way.

This episode also tackles the latest controversial product: BattleTech Gothic and what the BattleTech Continuum series has in s...

Darken the city, night is a wire... Steam in the subway, earth is afire...

For our February episode, we're discussing the new BattleMech Lance Packs from Catalyst Game Labs, Sun Tzu's Art of War, the Grey Death Legion, and Ghost Dogs. Our middle segment cues with dim lights, dirty jazz music, and sultry tones as we discuss BattleTech's first romance novel: Hungry like the Wolf. We're diving into the story narrative and the book'...

AN EVENING WITH BRYAN YOUNG Buckle your seatbelts folks, because this episode of the Chatterweb is packed full of goodies. It's also a long one, so hit pause now, run to the potty, refill your drink, grab some snacks, and then settle in your favorite chair.

This month the Chatterweb Podcast is joined by BattleTech author and writer extraordinaire Bryan Young, talking about general geek stuff and his latest novel Voidbreaker, dr...

Happy New Year MechWarriors!

We're closing out Chatterweb Podcasts 2024 with a bang! Arbitration kicks off with a Year in Review before moving onto what we can hopefully expect to see in 2025. We'll dive into the depths of the recently released Hotspots: Hinterlands sourcebook and the ridiculously awesome MechWarrior 5: Clans.

If you can pardon our tears we'd like to thank every one of our listeners for joining us in 2024. We...

"Hey all, it's Knightmare, your friendly neighborhood producer of the Chatterweb. I'm interrupting our regularly scheduled podcast introduction to take a quick moment and apologize for the lateness of October's episode. For those of you who don't know, I, like many others living along the Gulf Coast and in North Carolina, lost their homes to Hurricane Helene. Thankfully, myself and my family are safe, but the damage sustained from ...

GenCon 2024 is now and it's time for the Chatterweb's second GenCon episode!

Arbitration and the Chatterweb are bringing your last word in BattleTech. For Episode #2 of GenCon 2024 we're covering all the topics we completely forgot to cover in our first episode due to distractions, general fanboying, and the sheer number of awesome things to cover. Afterwards, Mrs Arbiter will drop a little GenCon and Dungeons & Dragons hist...

GenCon 2024 is now and it's time for the Chatterweb's first GenCon episode!

Arbitration and the Chatterweb is bringing your last word in BattleTech. For Episode #1 of GenCon 2024 we're discussing the enormous catalog of BattleTech merchandise available at the Catalyst Games Labs's booth, as well as a number of other games that have tickled our fancy.

We'll wrap up this episode with an introduction to a new segment called: Th...

That's right folks, with GenCon right around the corner it's time for the Chatterweb's pre-game episode, and do we have a show for you!

That's right. When MrsArbiter isn't creating new colors, we'll talk about the new digital content for the BattleTech Mercenaries Kickstarter, and the new metal BattleTech miniatures from our good friends at Ironwind Metals. We also take a look at the latest MechWarrior 5: The Clans promotional ...

Before we dive into this month's show contents, we'd like to apologize for not recording an April Podcast. Mea culpa loyal listeners. We slept for four weeks, but feel recharged, renewed, and ready to bring one hell of a May show as recompense.

This month we dive into the heavily awaited, anticipated, on the verge of landing, BattleTech Mercenaries Kickstarter, including the nothing burger fiasco of the oft derided cost of shi...

A message from the man, the myth the legend: "Greetings 'Mech Fans, Duncan Fisher here, and I find myself on Terra in a place called Kansas City, where I am supposed to be interviewed by your last word in BattleTech talk.  My agent assures me there will be plenty to drink, and plenty of women to keep me company." That's right, we have the incredible George Ledoux on the show.

As if Mr. Ledoux wasn't enough, BattleTech was a sma...

"Fuzzy Bunnies Forever!"

Catalyst Game Labs is getting ready for Adepticon, one of the largest gaming conventions in North America, but that doesn't mean we're lacking in BattleTech news!  This month we saw three (3) brand new pieces of BattleTech fiction released, a new DLC for MechWarrior 5 is coming (re: Smoke Jaguars), and Big Red's Epic is truly stunning in scope.

As great as this month's releases have been, we have some...

Can you believe it? We're going to hit this month's release on target. It must be a New Year! We're kicking off 2024 with a great episode brought to you by chud rage and online antics. On January 24th Catalyst Game Labs released what is arguably the most vanilla and least offensive community standards post in the history of online community moderation. Unfortunately, some really sad, angry, and very hurt folks couldn't finish the p...