Games Asylum (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Most Played Since its release early last year, Shadowrun has been on the receiving end of a lot of flack, and to be honest, it’s mostly deserved. The single player mode is almost non-existent - you can only play against bots with less intelligence than a ’80s calculator - and there are no options to speak [...]
Minimum Wage Gamer (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Reports indicate that Shadowrun can be played online on the Xbox 360 with a live silver account, something of which people speculate that is due to Windows Live being free as of now.
DarkZero (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
News has hit the Internet (starting over on the Xbox.com fourms) that Shadowrun has become a very unique Xbox Live game, as it can now be played online on the Xbox 360 even if you only have access to a Silver Xbox Live account. The reason for this is not yet fully known, but many [...]
Minimum Wage Gamer (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
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ProjectPerko (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
In any game, there is a kind of primary play loop. For example, in an RPG, the primary play loop is probably the combat. 99% of the parts of the game you can actually influence (equipment, treasure hunting, level-up specifics) is geared towards fighting. The other 1% is generally split between very simple story branching and making the girls wear bikinis. These "high level" play loops nest the main...
DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
In an ideal world online gaming would be done by rational, courteous people grouping together for the challenge of the game and the experience of playing with a larger group. There’d be no complaining about team balancing and no hacking programs. It’d simply be skill against skill in a sportingly friendly fashion. Unfortunately it’s not a [...]
Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
"Non-gamers simply don't love games enough to put up with the crap they get online". Shadowrun designer Bill Fulton has staged an attack against Xbox Live idiots, claiming that the abusive behaviour of online games is "dramatically reducing" sales of his game. Funny, we though it was the bad reviews. Click here to read the full article
UMPC Buzz (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
I have an xbox live account (I was able to retrieve it and install on my xbox360, and can login on the xbox live site with the email address and login), however when I try to login with Shadowrun, it appears to login, then tels me I need to download an update (I can't run without downloading this update) and then says it failed to get the update. This basically sucks - the one game that is Vista only,...
Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (Free subscription) | 20/01/2008
Welcome to the inaugural edition of *Back to the Stack*, our stab at not-so-retro gaming. Each Saturday night we take a multiplayer game that may not be hot or new, but is still worthy of your time. So start looking for the disc holding this week's game - *Shadowrun*, for both the Xbox 360 and...
DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
2007 was a great year for gaming, but not a good one for FASA Studios, as their only game Shadowrun failed to impress gamers and critics alike, thanks to the lack of polish and additional content a lot of people hoped would come. This led to the closure of the Microsoft-owned studio later in the [...]
Game|Life (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Good news and bad news this week for Microsoft's Shadowrun franchise. The Xbox 360/Windows Vista game continues its protracted slide into oblivion, with the announcement that the multiplayer-only game's official Web forums will close in two weeks. On the bright...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 , First Person Shooters , Online Ms. Kimona has dropped by the official Shadowrun forums to let everyone know (all three of you) that the boards will be nailed shut in a few weeks, and eventually Shadowrun.com will be transitioned over to new caretaker (and original creator) Jordan Weisman, who recently formed Tinker & Smith and promptly borrowed back several neglected...
Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Microsoft mentions "the next generation of Shadowrun products" while noting the forums will soon close. The Shadowrun forums are due to be closed in the next few weeks but there's hope of further products from the brand emerging in the future. Click here to read the full article
QJ.NET (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
When FASA Studios closed shop , it kept both the Community Manager and Technical Support Manager post active. The company said that it would continue to do so while people still played Shadowrun ( Xbox 360 , PC ). Well, it looks like interest for the game has already waned because the forums are going to be shut down in two weeks time. Community Manager Kimona said that they are doing this because...
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Former Shadowrun Community Manager Kimona has announced that the official Shadowrun forums will be shutting down within the next two weeks. With the game's developer FASA having closed its doors, there simply weren't enough people on payroll to monitor the forums. "We'll eventually close down www.shadowrun.com," Kimona adds, "and transition it to the folks working on the next generation of Shadowrun...
