Shadow's Reach

Appologies to those of you looking for the original Shadows Reach demo (V1.1) as it has recently been removed. The reason for this is that the games demo was of a file size large enough for me to warrant hosting it on Megaupload.com - which due to the American federal government being frankly stupid and attempting to vet the internet (Team America World Police gags on standby) has been closed. The site now only shows this message: http://www.megaupload.com/

What this means for my demo is that it was deleted immediatly, without notification by the American government that it was going to happen - dispite the fact that I was a paying member of the site and entitled to know. As a Graphic Designer and Illustrator by profession I have regularly uploaded artwork too big for clients to have emailed to them to Megaupload and have found it a valuble resource these past few years. One I will miss. I am an Englishman doing legitimate business, Megauploads was based in Hong-Kong, the only reason the Americans felt they could touch it was because it used Paypal for business transactions and Paypal is American - this seems a very fine line to me and I think we will be seeing them overstep the mark with increasing regularity over the next few years. Wikipedia and other sites went black to express how they felt about these proposed actions and I'm not sure we've paid this issue enough attention. This week I will be re-supplying nine clients artwork they've lost because they kept the backup on Megaupload.com rather than on their harddrives for file size and easy access reasons.

For Shadows Reach this isn't too kig of a problem - I was planning on releasing a second 'tweaked' demo with new areas and a bigger chunk of the story to enjoy soon anyhow. However the game is BIG in file size as it contains so much and uses some big wav files, leaving me in search of a new home to host it. Please be patient as I finalize the demo and do so and I appologize for any inconvenience.