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Satisfying your energy appetite by dominator farming in safe locations has been one of the main ways to score points. While havens for dominators will stay one of the strategies also in the future, we decided to start rolling in some changes that will bring conquering and combat more to the forefront.

Clearly battling for your familiar active neighborhoods has been one of the coolest things in Shadow Cities. We decided to reward Mages directly when conquering an Energy Gateway for your team. Based on the Gateway activity (how fiercely the gateway is fought over) and its strategic importance, the ...

We have been listening to you on how you feel about the game and your experiences playing it the past several days. The main point we want to get across is that Shadow Cities is not a game that ships and is then forgotten by its developers. If something rubs our players the wrong way, we work hard to make it go away.

Clearly farming Dominators has become a large part of the recipe for success in Shadow Cities. Perhaps a too large. We are currently working on a solution to gradually shift the game play from remote Dominator farms ...

We are currently working on shifting the game dynamic based on your feedback and experiences. We will release an update for your feedback sometime tomorrow early afternoon on this blog on what we are planning.

Worry not, this won't take effect before Northstar, this week's weekly campaign is over.

We hope to see you all participating into the discussion tomorrow even though Northstar campaign is heating up during its last hours.

We are feverishly trying to figure out in which country should Shadow Cities open up next. We'd love to have a passionate mages on the ground that are interested to seed the game in the local scene and get the whole city onboard so that the Shadow Cities experience will be all the it can be.

Let us know in the comments where you are and whether you think Shadow Cities would work great in your neck of the woods.

As we quietly yesterday released the Shadow Cities app onto the AppStore yesterday  it shot straight to #1 top grossing app in the Finnish App Store. The success was so abrupt that we hadn't have a proper help section up to at that point. Here's a few extra steps to guide you along the way.

The goal in the game:

• To own neighborhoods for your team and become the strongest Mage in your city.

To accomplish this you start by conquering your own neighborhood and hunt Spirits for experience. Of course its up to you to choose what ...

The time has come. Even though the magic has been gone for centuries it has now returned. We can wield magic by using our iPhones and iPods. Through the window which our magical mobile device creates we are able to see the parallel world of Shadow Cities which we need to explore and ultimately conquer back. We embark on this journey by battling shadow spirits in the new world, but our ultimate goal is to win all the weekly campaigns for our team and conquer the city back, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Shadow Cities is now available for those who reside ...

Here's a set of screen shots that were taken during an alpha round that was played October 2010 with a quick text put on top. What do you think? We're pretty excited about how fresh it looks.

You nearly trip yourself stepping out of the tram but your eyes never leave the phone’s screen. It’s glowing blue and you can see shapes forming around you. You knew the morning rush hour would bring enemy mages here so the traps laid late last night are exactly in the right place. You walk the last mile to your office drawing rune after rune on the device’s touch screen. Just as you are stepping in, the view lights up. The decoys have worked and now the traps are unleashing their payloads on the poor suckers that didn ...