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Contents 1 Novels 2 Movies 3 Video games 4 Machinima 5 Sources

[edit] Novels

See also List of Shadowrun books

FASA released 40 Shadowrun novels in collaboration with Roc publishing between 1991 and 2001. Shadowrun novels went out of production between 2001 and 2005, making the books produced towards the end of FASA's ownership of the license hard to find. A 41st novel was announced, but never released.

In 2005, WizKids began publishing new Shadowrun novels, again through the Roc imprint of the New American Library. Six novels were released in the new series, with no current plans for more.

Several additional novels were published in foreign languages only. More than 30 written in German by German and Austrian authors published by Heyne (since 1991) and FanPro (since 1997).

[edit] Movies

Despite various rumors, no Shadowrun movie has been produced so far. In 1999, Shadow Pictures, led by Kenneth Stange, tried and failed to create the first Shadowrun spinoff movie. Due to an unaccepting crowd and a lack of funds, the projects was trashed. In the recent years, however, FanPro's promotional fan film competition has brought forward a variety of German fan-based short films depicting numerous aspects of the Shadowrun world in numerous levels of quality, some in subtitled versions. American-made Shadowrun movies do exist, but are few in number.

[edit] Video games

Four video games have been developed based on the Shadowrun franchise, the first in 1993 was an action RPG titled Shadowrun developed by Australian software company Beam Software (now Melbourne House) for the SNES console. The second also titled Shadowrun was for the Sega Mega Drive in 1994 developed by US company BlueSky Software. The third game was an interactive fiction adventure game developed by Japanese company Group SNE in 1996 for the Mega CD console, again titled Shadowrun.

A fourth and latest game is for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista, with the working title Shadowrun developed by US company FASA Interactive owned by the Microsoft Corporation, which is also producing the title. However, many fans of the roleplaying game have not appreciated the major changes to story, races, and magic in the 2007 title and the new Shadowrun is an FPS (First Person Shooter), which enraged many fans of the RPG series. The publishers of the Shadowrun roleplaying game have issued a statement saying, "Microsoft rewrote the timeline and setting for this game, so it is not in continuity with the tabletop RPG. It may be more accurately described as a game loosely based on Shadowrun."[1]

• 1993 - Shadowrun (Beam Software, SNES)
• 1994 - Shadowrun (BlueSky Software, Sega Genesis/Megadrive)
• 1996 - Shadowrun (Group SNE, Sega/Mega CD)
• 2007 - Shadowrun (FASA Interactive, PC and Xbox 360)

[edit] Machinima

Rooster Teeth Productions is producing machinima mini-series—using the 2007 Microsoft game—titled 1-800-Magic.

[edit] Sources

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