GameShadow - a gamers dream?

[Nick]

We sit down with Tony Treadwell and Nicholas Lovell from GameShadow and find out just what their new bit of software offers for gamers. Is it possible that hassle-free patching is here at last?

Check out our in-depth GameShadow Feature over on HEXUS.gaming.

[0iD]

I tried it after installing it with Bet on A Soldier. TBH I was supprised at how efficient it was, even patching old gamed like Dungeonkeeper II & RTCW.

[Spud1]

I can see why some people would find this useful..but tbh it just encourages developers to get/stay lazy with their patching process. For example, Westwood's CnC series had a great auto patching system, and it wasnt mandatory like with annoying systems such as steam, if you wanted to get a patch you just clicked 'update' and it would check for you. Worked like a dream.

Valves old (pre steam) system was great, they had a half-life update system that didnt work great, but their manual patches were fine, most importantly logically labled

eg 1.0.4.1-1.0.5.1-hl.exe is clearly upgrading from version 1.0.4.1 to 1.0.5.1.....not rocket science.

If all developers either included their own none-mandatory auto-update software (and a fair few do) or simply labled their patches correctly there would be no-need for GameShadow..

still for those people too lazy to do it themselves it might be worth using