I happened upon this article thanks to a Google Alert for mentions of Battletech.  The article is a talk with Jordan Weisman called "Weisman: Practice 'Planned Parenthood' With Your Game Franchises".  As I was reading through I ran across this little blurb:

[Jordan Weisman] has now formed media company Smith & Tinker, and has bought licensed the electronic entertainment rights to FASA-birthed franchises like Shadowrun, Battletech and Crimson Skies back from Microsoft.

Read the article @ Gamasutra

Smith & Tinker

CORRECTION:
It turns out that Jordan Weisman has not *bought* the rights, he has licensed them.
Ref: http://www.smithandtinker.com/news/
Ref: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16535
Thanks to Major Tom for pointing out the mistake.

In the last post, I described the Classic Battletech Introductory Boxed Set. The second part of the article consists of an interview with Catalyst Game Labs' Herb Beas, line developer for BattleTech...

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Catalyst Game Labs is proud to announce the Clan Expansion Box Set coming in late 2008/early 2009! Visit the article at Wired.com today for a nice bit of artwork and review of CBT in general, and return tomorrow for an interview with Herb "The Nuke" Beas, CBT Line Developer.

The folks over at ClassicBattletech.com have posted two new previews of Technical Readout: 3075; the Table of Contents and the House Davion Age-of-War-era Hammerhands heavy BattleMech. This TRO contains new information not only on the bleeding edge of technology being used in the current Jihad, but also provides details on some of the mysteries from the dawn of the BattleMech.

 

Also, members of BattleCorps.com have access to an additional preview of the Word of Blake's Se'irim Medium Battle Armor in the "BattleCorps Exclusives" section of the forum. Become a member today to feast your eyes on this little bugger and much much more!