Welcome to the SGR

This is the first news post, on the first day of this the SGR site being live - so hi there to anyone that may be reading this, we're glad to be here, we've been planning this a little while now. We hope you like it.

This site exists because we couldn't find another one like it - no other site out there exclusively reviews shareware titles, indeed, no site we could find seriously reviewed shareware titles at all - and being a group of hairy palmed shareware fanatics we thought it our duty to change that as soon as possible and bring everything we know and love about PC shareware games, old and new, to the rest of the internet!

The first question on your lips is; "What do we define as shareware?"

Traditionally shareware was a free to copy free to own pay for if you feel like it kinda deal. Things have changed in the past decade, we at this site (regardless of what anyone else says) define shareware as any digitally delivered game that although might request you purchase a serial does not deal in the highly realms subscription and irrespective of copyright allows users to pass the software between them to try it out before they choose or choose not to purchase a serial and legitimise their copy of the game! That's quite a mouthfull, but you get the idea.

Digital Delivery. Free to pass on. These are the two things we stand for at SGR!

At this stage we expect to be posting a few reviews a week (there is a hell of a lot of shareware out there to get through) - and as much news on shareware games as we can dig up as and when we find it, interspliced with the odd article/rant about the gaming industry and specifically the future of shareware and independent games. We might even do some audio/video podcasts in the near future!

We hope you all enjoy the ride. Tell your friends. And don't forget that if you want to contact us the address is simply sharewaregamereview [at] hushmail.com - we could do with tips on new games, and tips on shareware related news!

Cheers,

The SGR Staff.