Campaigns

Win a Shadow Cities customized Gelaskin for your iPhone 4, in your team colors no less!

Here's an unique chance for all you Finnish Mages to get your hands on these brand new Shadow Cities customized Gelaskins for iPhone 4, that just arrived yesterday in mail to our office. We'll be drawing three lucky winners of all Mages who manage to gather 2000 Energy Points or more during the Phoenix Campaign. The winners will be announced after the Campaign and rewarded with one Gelaskin of their choosing. Check out the designs below!

Phoenix Campaign doesn't bring any ...

A massive donation of Spirits during the last hours of the Campaign took Animators to victory. Total of 320 800 Spirits from both sides of the battle were donated during the Twinspire Campaign. That's pretty insane!

Here are the Mages who got their names on this week's World Leaderboard & were rewarded with Mana Potions.

World Leaderboard:

1. Meisseli of the Architects, 100 Potions
2. CocoSan of the Animators, 50 Potions
3. Reign of the Animators, 50 Potions
4. Jarijj of the Architects, 50 Potions
5. M850 of the Architects, 50 Potions

Next Campaign will start tomorrow Friday at ...

Twinspire Campaign starts tonight at 6 pm! Get ready to attack, defend and donate Spirits.

This week's Campaign introduces a small new twist into the game. Instead of one Super Beacon there will now appear always two Super Beacons in the same location, one for each team. Just like before, you will get a notification of a summoned Super Beacon calling you to defend or attack.

Also like we told earlier this week, the Spirit Bag and the Research Lab will be removed in the future version of Shadow Cities. We strongly encourage all of you to start donating ...

And we finally have the winner! Win of the Chicken Campaign went to the Architects. Congratulations all! Next Campaign will start already today at 6 pm. Get ready!

Why was Shadow Cities down so long? At approximately noon yesterday Amazon EC2 datacenter that we're using to host the game started showing problems with increased latency with EBS volumes. The servers recovered for about an hour but then failed completely in a spectacular manner. This failure proved to be the most serious in AWS history taking down some of the most popular sites and services.

Shadow Cities was hit hard ...

This week we are bringing a highly experimental new feature into the game: Dodge spell.

And how does it work? If you manage to warp or dewarp to a long enough distance after an enemy Mage has started to cast a War Chant on you, you have a chance of dodging his spell. You can only dodge attacks of other Mages, not Spirits.

As said, this is an experimental feature and internet connections, especially 3G connections may have much influence on how the feature will work in real gameplay. With weaker connections the time to react after enemy has started ...

Congrats to the Architects for taking home the Banisher Campaign! The most merciless banishers of the Campaign & winners of Mana Potion rewards were: 1. Captain, 2. Norka and 3. Hoomikko, all three from the Animators.

And here comes this week's World Leaderboard:

1. Oldnick of the Animators, 100 Potions
2. Hoomikko of the Animators, 50 Potions
3. Deadlytramp of the Architects, 50 Potion
4. CocoSan of the Animators, 50 Potions
5. Miquel of the Animators, 50 Potions

Next Campaign will start tomorrow friday at noon. More about this tomorrow!

The theme of this week's Campaign is ruthless! Cast your War Chant upon thy enemies and defend your neighborhoods from hostile takeover by banishing as many Mages as your Z-Spell can reach.

We will be rewarding the most merciless Banishers with tempting Mana Potion rewards in the end of the Campaign.

Banishing opposition Mages gives also now more Energy points than before.

The Campaign is on!

The New Moon Campaign took Mages on a Spirit hunt. Total of 10 000 rare Spirits were captured during the Campaign. In the end it was the Animators who triumphed to victory. Good job!

The top 3 Spirit Hunters of the Campaign were: 1. Are of the Architects, 2.  The Gandalf of the Animators and 3. Tauno of the Architects. All three were awarded with Mana Potions.

This is how the World Leaderboard looked like in New Moon Campaign:

1. Are of the Architects, 100 Potions
2. The Gandalf of the Animators, 50 Potions
3. CocoSan of the Animators, 50 ...

Enter the streets of Shadow Cities for a Spirit hunt! During new moon period Mages look into the stars for guidance. The phasing Moon has affected the rarest of Spirits. The rare 3 star Spirits give out now an extra amount of Energy Points for your team when captured.

In New Moon Campaign we didn't want to bring any big new changes to the Campaign rules. We are also keeping Super Beacons and added Energy gain based on Realm values, which were introduced in the previous Campaign, as a part of the rule set. If you missed out on ...

But it was really close! It wasn't until the very last moments of the Campaign that the Animators overrode the Architects in gained Energy and took the win of the Campaign. But do not yield Architects, you shall have your chance to get back at the "hippies" really soon...

It was great to see also how the teams took advantage of the new Super Beacon feature. Many successful group attacks on enemy controlled neighborhoods were performed during the past week bringing new kind of action into Shadow Cities. Good job all!

Here are the top 5 players who made ...