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DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
... invididuals who casually spout out epithets, racial and ethnic slurs with complete impunity. Shadowrun developer Bill Fulton has insisted that these people are to blame for the low participation in online gaming amongst console owners, and specifically for the low sales of his game. He claims that “non-gamers simply don’t love games enough to put up with the crap they get online”. While...
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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
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UMPC Buzz (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
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...
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Evil Avatar Forums - News Items (Free subscription) | 01/20/2008
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...
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DigitalBattle (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
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 [...]
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Game|Life (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
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...
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Joystiq (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
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...
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Computer And Video Games (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
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
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QJ.NET (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
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...
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Destructoid (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
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...
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Kotaku (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
Looking back at my gaming stats of 2007, I logged a shameless amount of hours playing Shadowrun. I always liked the game, even if the final product lacked the polish or additional content a lot of...
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TeamXbox (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
While announcing that the official Shadowrun forums will be closing soon, Microsoft has revealed that more Shadowrun games are planned.
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Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
Filed under: News Depressing news fellow Shadowrun fanboys. The official Shadowrun forums are being shut down soon due to the fact that most of the original FASA employees have moved on to other roles within' Microsoft and there isn't enough staff to keep watch. As a result, we advise quickly make your way to the forums and posting until your Shadowrun heart is content. Though,...
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QJ.NET (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
A few months after the less-than-graceful shutdown of Shadowrun ( Xbox 360 , PC ) by FASA Corporation , the company's founder Jordan Weisman managed to put together a new game studio called Smith & Tinker. Not only that, but Weisman also managed to license the electronic entertainment rights for MechWarrior, Shadowrun, Crimson Skies , and other former FASA titles from Microsoft . Weisman...
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Xbox 360 Fanboy (Free subscription) | 12/08/2007
Filed under: News When FASA Studios closed its doors a few months back, we thought it was the end of Shadowrun and FASA games as we knew them. But today we find it's not. FASA founder Jordan Weisman has been busy lately, he just created a new game studio called Smith & Tinker and (get this) bought up all of FASA's original IPs from Microsoft. Yup. Weisman and Smith & Tinker now own the Shadowrun...
