Choice of Games: The Road to Canterbury The Road to Canterbury is a 175,000-word interactive medieval adventure novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. Enter the medieval world of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, where your journey, and the stories you tell, will change history. The Hundred Years’ war is heating up: will you […]
MAY ROUND-UP: new and upcoming Read More »
Scholastic have released the next six books in their relaunch of the Fighting Fantasy series, which includes Charlie Higson’s brand-new Allansian adventure The Gates of Death. Are YOU brave enough to face the all-powerful queen of Chaos, growing ever more monstrous behind the Gates of Death? A terrible plague has devastated Allansia, striking its people
The Gates of Death, and new FF reprints Read More »
Do you love the classic Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone Fighting Fantasy gamebooks from the 80s and beyond, but want them all in one place on your digital device? If so, then Tin Man Games has you covered with their brand new library app, Fighting Fantasy Classics. Own your own library of classic gamebooks by
Fighting Fantasy Classics Read More »
Fighting Fantasy Audio Drama: The Series A multi-episode series of the officially-licensed Fighting Fantasy audio dramas will now be produced by Fox Yason Music Productions Limited, as their current Kickstarter campaign has already been successfully funded by over 200%. Following on from last year’s successful launch of the first episode, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain:
MARCH ROUND-UP: new and upcoming Read More »
Tin Man Games are currently developing Fighting Fantasy Classics, a digital library app for iOS, Android, PC and Mac, that will collect many of the gamebooks from the ever-popular Fighting Fantasy series. The original adventures, written and presented by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, are being converted to a digital gamebook format. Combat and skill
Fighting Fantasy Classics: New Digital Collection Read More »
Andrew Chapman’s piratical Fighting Fantasy adventure is something a little different: a contest of ‘speed and treasure’ set within a strategic puzzle format where luck is often as important as any calculated planning. The aim of this unique challenge is to locate enough gold and slaves (which can then be sold at a slave market
REVIEW: Seas of Blood Read More »
Your ‘ACE Gamebooks’ series continues to expand with NEVERLAND. What’s your process for choosing these classic stories and settings, and what is it that personally excites you about writing in these existing worlds? My decision to publish Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland in 2015 was not only motivated by my desire to revisit adapting Lewis Carroll’s
INTERVIEW: The never-ending imagination of Jonathan Green Read More »
As part of Scholastic’s relaunched Fighting Fantasy series, co-creator Ian Livingstone has written a new gamebook featuring many favourite locations and quite a few old friends and enemies appearing previously in some of the earlier adventures. The Port of Peril is a classic old-school gamebook that sees you on a journey from Chalice – a
REVIEW: The Port of Peril Read More »
It’s time to create your own adventures in Nomad Games‘ latest release. A role-playing card game, Fighting Fantasy Legends allows you to play through the stories of three iconic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks: City of Thieves, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain and Citadel of Chaos. Each location features a shuffled deck of cards, which includes fiendish
Fighting Fantasy Legends released! Read More »
Scholastic UK have now released cover designs for the first six books of their repackaged Fighting Fantasy series, which includes Ian Livingstone’s new adventure, The Port of Peril. These vibrantly energetic cover illustrations are by Robert M. Ball, who is known for his ‘Beautiful Death’ series of illustrations for HBO’s Game of Thrones. Let’s hope
New Fighting Fantasy covers revealed Read More »
The welcomed resurgence of the Fighting Fantasy brand in this 35th Anniversary year continues to gather increased momentum with the announcement from Nomad Games (creators of the successful Talisman: Digital Edition) of their upcoming new release, Fighting Fantasy Legends. A card-based role-playing game set in Allansia, Fighting Fantasy Legends will see you exploring three classic
Fighting Fantasy Legends Read More »
Great news for all Fighting Fantasy fans! Scholastic UK has acquired world rights to the series, announcing that the classic gamebooks will be ‘republished, repackaged and reignited for a new generation’. They will also publish Ian Livingstone’s upcoming new adventure, The Port of Peril, in August, and have stated that further new titles are planned
Scholastic to relaunch Fighting Fantasy Read More »
Gamebook News recently sent out its intrepid RHINO–MAN reporter to track down Jonathan Green, author of YOU ARE THE HERO Part 2 – a mighty tome of additional Fighting Fantasy history, which is currently funding on Kickstarter. After dragging a hesitant Mr Green back to a CALACORM-guarded prison cell in our office (he repeatedly muttered
INTERVIEW: YOU ARE THE HERO Part 2 Read More »
The 35th anniversary of the Fighting Fantasy series will be celebrated this year with the release of two new books: an Allansian adventure written by Ian Livingstone, and a companion volume to Jonathan Green’s You Are The Hero – A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, which was released in 2014 after a very successful Kickstarter. You
You Are The Hero Part 2 Read More »