Posts with tag shadowrun
Posted Jan 15th 2008 4:15PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: Fan stuff
And the
Ask X3F questions keep coming. It's okay though. We're here for you, gentle fanboys. This week we take a look at the nefarious problem with using your premium content (i.e.
Xbox Live Arcade games) on a replacement 360. We also chat about missing
Marketplace ads,
N+, MSN Alerts, and how the find bloggers of Xbox 360 Fanboy landed such a sweet gig. Continue on to reload your mental weapon with bullets ... of
knowledge.
If you've got a question or just something you'd like to share with the Xbox 360 Fanboy community, send it to: ask [at] xbox360fanboy [dawt] com.
Continue reading Ask X3F: yet more questions edition
Posted Jan 3rd 2008 1:45PM by Dustin Burg
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, there is a semi-silver lining to the forum shutdown. Shadowrun.com and its contents will be transferred over to the new
Shadowrun IP owners
Smith & Tinker, so they'll have free range to do whatever they wish with the Shadowrun.com name. You had a good run fellow friend, but now it's time to move on to a brighter future.
[Via Shadowrun the blog]
Posted Dec 8th 2007 12:45PM by Dustin Burg
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 IP as well as
MechWarrior and
Crimson Skies. What will they be doing with these oldy, but golden IPs? They're not ready to show us their hand just yet, but they do promise to "surprise and delight old fans, while welcoming new fans to these fantastic worlds". Anyone up for an Xbox 360
Crimson Skies sequel in 2010?
[Via IGN]
Posted Sep 13th 2007 11:00AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News
Some sad news hit the internets late last night with the revelation that FASA Studio, the team behind the recently released
Shadowrun, has closed their doors. Mitch Gitelman posted the news on the official
Shadowrun forums saying that the entire crew has known about FASA Studio's sad fate for a while, but they held off announcing their shutdown so it wouldn't affect
Shadowrun's release or the perception of the game. The good news is that all of FASA's employees are being dissolved into Microsoft Game Studios and should be able to find projects that they can get excited about and support. Rest in peace FASA Studio, you will always hold a dear place in our hearts, will forever be missed and know that your work will always live on.
[Via Hushed Casket]
Posted Aug 27th 2007 4:00PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: Fan stuff
Sarcastic Gamer is up to their expressive ways again, this time directing their anger and musical talents towards FASA Studios'
Shadowrun. Their latest song "Bad Game" is a parody of Daniel Powter's "Bad Day" with lyrics targeted towards bashing what they feel are the worst games of 2007, most notably
Shadowrun. Sarcastic Gamer is ready for the emails, hatred and verbal abuse
Shadowrun fans will bring after hearing the song, so go ahead give it a listen to see if "Bad Game" captures your feelings. If not, show Sarcastic Gamer the angry!
Posted Aug 20th 2007 2:30PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News
FASA Studios just released a freshly new title update for
Shadowrun (number three in fact) which fixes some bugs, alters gameplay a little and enhances the overall
Shadowrun experience. The title update is free (as always) and should download the next time you pop in the game. A complete list of enhancments, fixes and all the jazz the
Shadowrun title update brings is viewable after the break. Haha Elves, your healing powers are a quarter second slower ... mwahahaha!
[Thanks, MageGriff]
Continue reading Shadowrun gets some title update #3 love
Posted Aug 12th 2007 4:00PM by David Dreger
Filed under: News
Welcome to another edition of
X3F Achievements 101, and this week we touch on some of the builds used in Shadowrun while getting the Achievements for playing 100 matches as each race, and the fun found in being a
Katan00b, though scoring bleed outs takes far more skill that just mashing the right trigger on your enemy and hoping for a kill. I also dabbed into the multiplayer portion of The Darkness, and scored some Achievements in that, as well as finally getting some overdue ones in the game's single player story. All of this and more can be found after the break.
Continue reading X3F Achievements 101: Of Ninjas and Darklings
Posted Aug 6th 2007 2:30PM by David Dreger
Filed under: News
After a small hiatus following the craziness that is
E3,
X3F Achievements 101 is back with a variety of subjects worth covering. In case some of you have forgotten how this column works, this a space devoted to Achievement Whores around the world, and gives me the opportunity to chronicle my continuing conquest of Gamerscore, on a daily basis. This week, we cover a little bit of a backlog, as there's the survival of my Achievement streak during E3, my hitting of a couple Gamerscore Milestones, and the completion of a couple more 1000 GS rentals,
TMNT and
Cars.
Continue reading X3F Achievements 101: The Return [update 1]
Posted Jul 25th 2007 5:15PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
Humans and elves, dwarves and trolls rejoice, for a
patch title update for
Shadowrun has been released. Despite TeamXbox reporting that the patch would go up sometime next week, it looks like it has already hit. The title update features several fixes including some exploit fixes (FASA isn't talking about what those exploits
are by the way), crash fixes, and improved bot AI. The biggest change, however, has to be reduced wait times in matchmaking, which FASA reports to be improved by 200-300%. Hit the "read" link for the full list of fixes.
[Via Joystiq. Thanks, SadistiK Roth]
Posted Jul 3rd 2007 10:00AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace
The fourth installment of
1-800-Magic is now available on
Xbox Live Marketplace. Strangely, the episode isn't available at
Rooster Teeth yet, so, for the moment, you're stuck watching from your Xbox 360. In this episode we continue the story of Bitterman in his quest to understand his newfound magical abilities. Now that the series has been established in the first three episodes, the fourth gives it a little twist to keep things interesting. We won't spoil it for you, but suffice it to say it is both funny and intriguing.
We're looking forward to future episodes. This is the last episode, so we hope you weren't too attached to the series.
Update: Looks like this is the last episode of the series, so there won't be any more. So sad.
Posted Jul 1st 2007 10:00AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: Deals and Bargains, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2, Call of Duty 3
Looking for some great video game deals? Well, look no further than Circuit City and the Sunday newspaper ads. This week, Circuit City is slashing $20 off select games including titles like
TMNT ($29.99),
GRAW 2 ($39.99),
Spider-Man 3 ($39.99) and
Call of Duty 3 ($39.99). Also, since both the Red and Black Edition Player Packs will be
free downloads, why not pick up
Rainbow Six Vegas for the low, low price of $39.99 too? You can't pass that up. Maybe new releases are more up your alley, then we advise picking up a free $10 gift card with a
Transformers: The Game purchase. And if you're in the market for
Shadowrun, purchase it for $37.99 on Windows Vista and Circuit City will throw in a wireless receiver for free!
All deals are available online or in-store, so save a few bucks and pick up some new games to add to your video game library this week.
Posted Jun 30th 2007 11:55PM by David Dreger
Another week goes by and another Live Top Ten is upon us. This week sees some things that don't change, the return of a few old faces, and other movements. The top four remain the same, with
Shadowrun also remaining at tenth, though its demo dropped to 9th, which is unfortunate.
Oblivion and
GRAW 2 make returns at sixth and seventh respectively, as it looks like players are coming back to those in the summer lull. Full list breakdown after the break.
Continue reading Live Top Ten: Old favorites
Posted Jun 27th 2007 3:45PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Xbox Live Marketplace
And the cycle of machinima continues. Even as
Red Vs. Blue readies for the
final curtain, another series is just beginning. The third episode of
1-800-Magic has now landed on
Xbox Live Marketplace. Of course, you could always
check it out on the intarwebz right now, but we find the HD widescreen view from the couch much more appealing. In case you've missed the series so far, here's a quick nonsensical recap: arguing trolls, talking trees named Frank, bacon, BAMF!, tech support, and magic. That pretty much sums it up.
Posted Jun 27th 2007 12:30PM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News
X3F readers will recall that Falling Leaf was preparing to save Windows XP gamers a lot of cash by making the Windows Vista versions of
Shadowrun and
Halo 2 compatible with XP. Unfortunately for Falling Leaf, the hacking group Razor 1911 has already cracked*
Shadowrun according to the Inquirer. Apparently, all the crack does is overwrite a few files in the installation directory. It should be noted that the crack only allows for single player against bots and multiplayer over LAN. As far as we know, online multiplayer is still restricted to Vista.
Falling Leaf expects its solution to arrive in late July.
[Via Joystiq]
*If you want the crack, you'll have to find it on your own; we're not linking it.
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