ShadowRun Returns (As a PC Game [And a 2-D RPG (If You Can Spare a Few Bucks)])
ShadowRun was a hell of a table-top role-playing game. It was a pretty swell Sega Genesis and SNES videogame too, if I recall. It was also a mediocre FPS in 2007, but let’s ignore that for the time being. ShadowRun creator Jordan Wesiman wants to make a 2-D ShadowRun tactical/strategy RPG for PC, Mac and tablets, and he’s using the Kickstarter route to do it. Much like Tim Schafer’s old-school adventure game and Wasteland 2, this is a terrific fucking idea, and even better, at the moment, Weisman is only $18,000 away from his $400,000 goal, meaning the chances of this not happening are actually pretty slim at this point (I bet it gets fully funded by the end of the day, frankly). You know, Kickstarter may have its problems, but it may be the best thing to happen to videogames in years. Thanks to everyone who sent in this tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.