Winterblades will be returning as a major competitor in the new version of Shadowbane known as SBemu.  Our goal: to offer a playing field in the upper echelon of skill.  Good luck to our enemies.

http://www.shadowbaneemulator.com

Darkfall launched (rather pitifully) on the EU server over 4 months ago and the game is already in a piss poor state.  Recently, the NA server opened up with brought some new life into the game.  Unfortunately, Adventurine dumbed down the grind to raise magic significantly, and every joe shmoe has multiple 100 maxed out schools.  Since high level magic is so powerful, the game has turned into spamming spells back and forth at each other until someone dies, which has made PVP very stale.

After a beta of over 50 active -W-, there are only a handful of us that still log in occasionally, and most not at all. Our guild on the EU server has merged in VAMP, who have been amazing hosts, and we are now in the Graveyard Alliance (which was the new iteration of the SB Alliance).  On the NA server we have hooked up with our old Shadowbane enemies from The Shipwrecked Pirates and  participate in the Shadow Pact Alliance. Aion, an aerial WoW clone, & Champions, a comic book themed MMO, are on the horizon and have taken hold of some of our members.  Many of us reminisce about the golden days of Shadowbane and miss it dearly, especially after rumors of Shadowbane 2 have been going around periodically, althought most of them are simply our longingness surfacing.

Our dream of a perfect MMO might never come true, but we all continue to search & hope for that reuniting experience.

The European release date was pushed off until February 25, 2009.  Stress test to begin on January 22, 2009.

 This was pretty much expected, and its good to see that Adventurine is really putting in the time to make sure Darkfall is going to release as intended.  Even if we have to wait another month or so, I'm 100% certain this game is going to be amazing.

http://forums.darkfallonline.com/showthread.php?t=106082