Shadowrun

Note should be made that game world links between Earthdawn and Shadowrun were deliberately broken by the publisher when the Shadowrun property was licensed out, in order to avoid the necessity for coordination between publishing companies.

The company is behind other franchises like Battletech and the Shadowrun series.

Cyberpunk 2020 was designed with the settings of William Gibson's writings in mind, and to some extent with his approval, unlike the approach taken by FASA in producing the transgenre Shadowrun game.

FASA has announced since that there are no plans to return Shadowrun to in-house publication, nor to restore the links between the game worlds.

The setting of Earthdawn is the same world as Shadowrun (i.e. a fictionalized version of Earth ), but takes place millennia earlier.