Being new to Xbox Live, I was a bit apprehensive about playing an FPS like Shadowrun against actual people.  Sure, the tutorial chapters did a good job of introducing me to the game, but playing against bots isn’t the same as playing against living, breathing people.  For a game whose main focus is multiplayer [...]

  Usually companies split up releasing games and a single title comes out for a system in a week to make sure they don’t cannibalize their sales. Instead of following the industry trend, Microsoft has two anticipated releases coming out on the same day Shadowrun and Forza Motorsport 2.  I’ve had a chance to play [...]

Microsoft announced that Shadowrun for the Xbox 360 and Shadowrun for Windows Vista will go gold on May 29, 2007. Shadowrun really is a game that you want to experience online and both versions allow you to connect to Xbox Live. If you have an Xbox 360 you need to pay for an Xbox Live [...]

Way before FASA Studios decided Shadowrun should be a Counterstrike-like FPS three other Shadowrun games were released for consoles in the 90s. Hardcore Gaming 101 has a detailed look back at the history of Shadowrun games starting with the SNES game where the main character has no memory and the darker Genesis RPG. The Genesis [...]

Microsoft is minimizing the time it takes to bring Shadowrun to Japan. It comes out on June 21st, about a month after it’s released in North America on May 29th. Shadowrun has been a great to play online, even though if the beta limits you to only playing find the artifact matches. The changes to [...]

Whenever I play a 1st person team-shooter on-line it’s a stark reminder that I’m really no good at those types of games. I just can’t keep up with everyone else. I’m always able to play on-line for the first few weeks a game is released but then people just get to good. Since most games [...]

I’ve been one of the lucky people chosen to play the Shadowrun beta and it’s an awesome experience. One of the main elements that separates Shadowrun from other FPS games is magic and the implementation is seamless. You can assign three magic or tech abilities to the two bumpers and the left trigger, the right [...]

Are you a competitive gamer? Live around Redmond? Then you can hang out with Microsoft and FASA studios this weekend playing Shadowrun. The event takes place on Saturday March 17th from 7:00PM to 11:00PM @ Microsoft’s Redmond campus. If you’re chosen to go you get to tour a game development studio, give feedback on Shadowrun [...]

Mitch Gitelman who is the studio manger of FASA shines some light on Microsoft’s upcoming game, Shadowrun. There is a lot of information in the Q&A, like how Shadowrun is going to work with the Xbox 360 and why they decided to switch the series from being a RPG to a FPS (big change!). While [...]