Check out the new site redesign over at http://www.shadowrun-online.com/.

Must . . . play . . . shadowrun . . .?

Wow, that looks spiffy.

It's amazing- on the one hand we have a company turning shadowrun into trash that it was never meant to be, and on the other we have a company turning it into exactly what it was meant to be.  It seems pretty clear from browsing the site that these developers have a much better command of the Shadowrun universe and flavor than most MUXers, they're the right people for the job.  The sad part is that it's a game in pre-production that still needs programmers and modelers to get off the ground- I don't think it's even been proposed yet, and here's this piece of crap FPS that has a huge E3 hype and everything.  I can't imagine that this MMO won't get the go-ahead though, since they've defeinitely done their homework and MMOs are huge cash cows.

I think I saw this site around 2 years ago, and it doesn't look like they've made any progress since then. It seems to me they're running on enthusiasm but not a whole lot of funding. Check out the amateurish at best concept art. Sadly, I don't think that project is going to get off the ground. I hope I'm wrong, though.