“I have played the future of mobile gaming. It is called Shadow Cities.”

During the past few weeks and months we have been rolling out Shadow Cities in several new markets. Shadow Cities is now available in the US and most of the European territories. Whilst opening the game in more and more cities across the globe  there has been a lot of interest in the new category of games we have introduced. I want to point out a specific one since I believe it really captures what Shadow Cities is all about.

This Saturday none else but New York Times’s Seth Schiesel in his front page article ”Brave New World That’s as Familiar as the Machine It Fights With” talks about Shadow Cities and what he thinks it represents.

“I have played the future of mobile gaming. It is called Shadow Cities.

If you have an iPhone, you simply must try this game. Shadow Cities isn’t just the future of mobile gaming. It may actually be the most interesting, innovative, provocative and far-reaching video game in the world right now, on any system.

That’s a strong, perhaps outrageous, statement. But it’s merited because Shadow Cities delivers a radically fresh sort of engagement. Shadow Cities fully employs the abilities of the modern smartphone in the service of an entertainment experience that feels almost impossibly exciting and new.

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The game’s fundamental concept is so powerful and the possibilities down the road so fascinating that I just feel lucky to have discovered it so early in its development.

Play Shadow Cities. Take over your neighborhood. I’ll see you on the battlefield”

Big words, but I could not have put it better myself. This is very much what we set out to do even though in the early days we ourselves did not have a clear idea of what the future of mobile gaming might look like. But now we know. As Seth put it, It looks a lot like Shadow Cities. We think so too.