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Shadowrun is influenced by the writings of [[William Gibson (novelist)|William Gibson]] (particularly ''[[Neuromancer]]''){{fact}}, although less so than the [[Cyberpunk 2020]] role-playing game{{fact}}.
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===Novels===
{{main|List of Shadowrun books}}
FASA released 40 Shadowrun novels in collaboration with [[New American Library|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. In 2005, WizKids began publishing new Shadowrun novels, again through the Roc imprint of the New American Library. So far, six novels have been released under the WizKids/Roc banner.
===Movies===
Despite various rumors, no Shadowrun movie has been published so far. In the recent years, however, [http://www.shadowrun.de/sr/ 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. [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%20shadowrun American-made Shadowrun movies] do exist, but are few in number.
===Video games===
Three video games have been developed based on the Shadowrun franchise, the first in 1993 was an action [[role-playing game|RPG]] titled ''[[Shadowrun (SNES)|Shadowrun]]'' developed by [[Australia|Australian]] software company [[Beam Software]] (now Melbourne House) for the [[SNES]] console. The second also titled ''[[Shadowrun (Sega)|Shadowrun]]'' was for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] in 1994 developed by [[United States|US]] company [[BlueSky Software]]. The third game was an [[interactive fiction]] [[adventure game]] developed by [[Japan|Japanese]] company [[Group SNE]] in 1996 for the [[Mega CD]] console, again titled ''[[Shadowrun (Mega CD)|Shadowrun]]''.
A fourth and latest (in production) game is for the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista, with the working title ''[[Shadowrun (Xbox 360)|Shadowrun]]'' developed by [[United States|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 2006 title, and 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."[http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/wordpress/?p=120]
* 1993 - [[Shadowrun (SNES)|''Shadowrun'' (Beam Software, SNES)]]
* 1994 - [[Shadowrun (Sega)|''Shadowrun'' (BlueSky Software, Sega)]]
* 1996 - [[Shadowrun (Mega CD)|''Shadowrun'' (Group SNE, Mega CD)]]
* 2007 - [[Shadowrun (Xbox 360)|''Shadowrun'' (FASA Interactive, PC and Xbox 360)]] (unreleased)
==See also==
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