"On the Run" (introductory adventure) has been in translation for one week now.
Scheduled German release: late February/early March
Contents: One highly detailed run in 9 chapters, with lots of advice for newbie GMs. No world-saving, no high politics - just do the job, overcome the adversaries and stay alive!

SR4 GM screen and "Runner Havens" (German title: "Schatten-Städte" = "Shadow Cities") are in final editing and should be finished in this month.
Expect final release dates in the February newsletter.
Meanwhile, writing and playtesting on "Street Magic", "Augmentation", "Arsenal" and "Emergence" (the first SR4 campaign) is going on.

A note on Technomancers
While there are no limits on Technomancers as player characters some facts about them were not made clear in the SR4 core book:
Outside well-informed circles (including the Shadows) the existence and abilities of Technomancers are almost unknown!
They are not mentioned in the media, Joe Public doesn't even know the term "Technomancer".

In addition, expect the first release of a new kind of SR book in the first half of 2006: "München Noir" ("Munich Noir"), the first Hot Spot book.
A single city (Munich this time) is presented from a street/Shadows point of view. After overviews of historical, geographical and political facts the Runner milieu is detailed: places, people, possibilities - all necessary GM informations for using the city as a campaign background.
Second part of the book is a mini-campaign that sends runners through all facets of Munich, focusing on the media, corp and celebrity scenes - and behind the sunny fassade crime and perversion abound...
"Richtig gehört - dieses Buch wird böse, richtig böse." (Christian Lonsing. "You heard right - this book will be evil, really evil.")
"Munich Noir" is a German release!

The annual Shadowrun Short Movie Competition is in its third incarnation.
After 4 contestants in the first year and 15(!) in the second there are 6 in the current competition.
Due to technical difficulties there have been delays in reviewing the entries.
Expect naming the winners soon.
Movie downloads (WMV directly on shadowrun.de and ED2K links for high-quality MPG/DivX versions) will follow.

If they don't want to offer an English version of the product for sale, I know I won't be buying it.

cool the jets guys--chances are atleast a couple of the location guides are in production at the same time, for a simultaneous local specific release. So the US will get the Seattle + whatever book, the germans get their book on Munich, and maybe one other for a local release. There are then translated for another international release, so hopefully, within a small time frame, we'd see a couple of location guides being translated and re-printed.

This is all wishful thinking/speculation on my part.

Is Shadowrun huge in Germany or something?

FanPro Germany has seven slots a year for Shadowrun products; FanPro LLC in North America has six slots. FanPro Germany typically does one european-themed book a year that isn't translated into English.

Well, kind of. FanPro is a german corp after all.

I don´t know, how much lokal work has been don in other countries/languages but there have been several german only releases over the time.

Most of them, I did not bother with however. I simply don´t like the style and am less interested in germany as a champaign setting.

I´d seriously doubt however, that Munich will ever be translated.

ok, this might still be in the wishful thinking line, but "back in the day" wasnt one of the setting books SUPPOSED to include munich?

If it makes ya feel better, we're not translating Missions into German.

nice to finally see some societal info on technomancers.

expect ninjas soon.

techo-ninjas?

So what's 'Emergance'? Anyone got the scan on that ? The new technomancer book or something?

Then you feel my pain when thinking of working out a translation of Shockwellen

For the record:

Munich Noir is the first of a series of Hot Spot books (one a year) which will showcase different locations in the AGS with a mixed sourcebook/campaign book format (sorta like the NAN sbs, but for one city). The books will play off elements of the German setting introduced in DidS2 and B:ADL and update the spotlighted setting to the Seventies, as well as providing a campaign that touches upon at least a couple of hanging German canon plot threads.

As Adam has noted this will fill the annual book slot FanPro D reserves for their German audience release.

Emergence (working title) will present the first storyarc/plotbook for SR4, as well as providing some setting context to some of the "still-emerging" elements of the Seventies setting.

Hopefully they'll include Drop Bears in it. Otherwise... but well, let us talk about this in the approbiate thread.

I can speak/read/write english reasonably well but its nice to have books in your native language, esp. when you play in that language and have to refer to attributes, skills and so on either with their english words or with your own ambiguous translations. And I can read faster... when the translation is good.

While I do know .. umh .. two SR gamers, thet had no english books, I agree, that still, most of them allso have engl. sbs. Many however prefer to have the books in german. With me it´s the other way around. I´ve gotten so used to engl. reading, that I don´t like, reading the sbs in german, and I think, I´m even faster in engl. then in german. Then again, I´m a rather slow reader in general