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[siamesedreamer]

I'm kinda curious as I was in B&N earlier today and saw this:

Its the first book in a trilogy. It came out in November and the second one arrives in January I think (I'm pretty sure that's what the inside of the book said).

There wasn't anything Xbox related on the inside like there was with the Halo novels. But, I was thinking that they could be doing the backstory for the game with the novels. Maybe I'm wrong and they're just part of the D&D Shadowrun type paper role playing game. I don't know.

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting and I thought I would bring it up here........

 

[Servizio]

Huh.

Nope, far as I know there's been official talk about it. Most I've heard is buzz from tradeshows and that artist at FASA Studios who let slip he was working on it during an interview.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

It still has a decent sized fanbase for the rpg, which I think was re-released with revised rules again recently. So that probably explains the novel tie-in.

 

[Ghengis Cohen]

They have been printing Shadowrun novels for years.

 

[boutrosinit]

M$ owns FASA
M$ owns Shadowrun name
FASA looking for staff to make an MMO
I QnA'd Shane Kim a few GDCs back and asked him straight out about Shadowrun. He beamed a knowing smile and told me jack shit

That's all I got to go on, but I have a baseless hunch that it's happening now.

 

[ram]

M$ owns Shadowrun name

wrong! fanpro owns shadowrun. fasa has only the rights to to shadowrun videogames.

 

[White Man]

You know that Shadowrun has been around, and independent of MS, for many, many years, right?

The 4th edition of the PnP RPG recently came out, and I believe Shadowrun novels have been coming out for the better part of a decade.

It still has a decent sized fanbase for the rpg, which I think was re-released with revised rules again recently. So that probably explains the novel tie-in.

Outside of normal D&D, it's probably the most popular RPG in my area, not counting miniature-based games.

 

[element]

FASA looking for staff to make an MMO

it was never said to be an MMO, the term used was 'multiplayer'.

 

[Ghost]

I'll cry if its not at e3, been waiting for them to announce it for years now.

 

[Kobold]

it was never said to be an MMO, the term used was 'multiplayer'.

Indeed.

And people, as you know, you need people to work on multiplayer if you want cooperative missions in your game or even simple adverserial gameplay. Thusly, multiplayer is not MMO in de definition of the word or how it was phrased persé at FASA's job posting.

 

[boutrosinit]

wrong! fanpro owns shadowrun. fasa has only the rights to to shadowrun videogames.

Sorry. Meant M$ owns Shadowrun.com or something along those lines

 

[MrSingh]

I met one of the guys who worked on Shadowrun Xbox 360.

But he said Xbox 1.5 is not powerful enough so it will be released on PS3 instead.




* one of the quotes above is not true

 

[Servizio]

The artist who let slip he was working on it said it was an FPS.

God help you if it's Perfect Dark Zero with a Shadowrun skin, FASA. God help you.

Not that I wouldn't buy it anyway.

 

[D3VI0US]

There are a lot of things MS hasn't announced yet.

 

[boutrosinit]

The artist who let slip he was working on it said it was an FPS.

God help you if it's Perfect Dark Zero with a Shadowrun skin, FASA. God help you.

Not that I wouldn't buy it anyway.

MMO FPS. That's 'the new black' donchano

 

[Scrow]

The artist who let slip he was working on it said it was an FPS.

God help you if it's Perfect Dark Zero with a Shadowrun skin, FASA. God help you.

maybe more like deus ex?

 

[Blackace]

I met one of the guys who worked on Shadowrun Xbox 360.

But he said Xbox 1.5 is not powerful enough so it will be released on PS3 instead.




* one of the quotes above is not true

it wasn't a guy was it??

 

[Blackace]

You know that Shadowrun has been around, and independent of MS, for many, many years, right?

The 4th edition of the PnP RPG recently came out, and I believe Shadowrun novels have been coming out for the better part of a decade.




Outside of normal D&D, it's probably the most popular RPG in my area, not counting miniature-based games.

well it is based in Seattle... I liked the OG rules better anyways.. the d20 crap is for the birds... give me a dice pool of 25 d6 anyday

 

[ram]

it was based in seattle. since fanpro (german paper and pen publisher) bought the rights from the defunc fasa studios, they changed to more german cities and landscapes. afterall, shadowrun is now even more european than it was before.

 

[Blackace]

it was based in seattle. since fanpro (german paper and pen publisher) bought the rights from the defunc fasa studios, they changed to more german cities and landscapes. afterall, shadowrun is now even more european than it was before.

well that's no good... :lol

 

[Musashi Wins!]

well it is based in Seattle... I liked the OG rules better anyways.. the d20 crap is for the birds... give me a dice pool of 25 d6 anyday

d20 has taken over the world!

 

[Kasra]

I hope they show this at E3.

Or better yet! They should make the original Shadowrun games available for download on Live Arcade!

 

[Blackace]

I hope they show this at E3.

Or better yet! They should make the original Shadowrun games available for download on Live Arcade!

and and I'd like a free pony

 

[Kleegamefan]

Supposedly, Shadowrun 360 will be a first person RPG and will use Unreal Engine 3

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8767/Shadowrun-in-Development-for-the-Xbox-360/

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/635/635071p1.html

 

[element]

Supposedly, Shadowrun 360 will be a first person RPG and will use Unreal Engine 3

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/8767/Shadowrun-in-Development-for-the-Xbox-360/

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/635/635071p1.html

it doesn't use the Unreal Engine.