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Latest News - 13th May 2012

"This book has legendary status and fully deserves it". This is a quote from a review by fan Darren Saunders of Deathtrap Dungeon. Have you got one you want to share or why not try your hand and write one. Send all your submissions to mail@fightingfantasy,com and you could see your review published.

Latest News - 10th May 2012

On Twitter? Want to see your name in print? Ian Livingstone is giving one lucky winner the chance to have their name feature in the forthcoming gamebook Blood of the Zombies. Tweet #bloodofthezombies to @ian_livingstone and he will pick one of you at random.

Latest News - 9th May 2012

Video footage of the Something Unreal event at Gadget Show Live is now available to view on the Train2Game Blog that also contains an interview with Ian Livingstone.

Latest News - 6th May 2012

Out this month is Issue 102 of the essential guide to Classic Games Retro Gamer . It contains an 8-page interview with Ian Livingstone where he talks about the history of Fighting Fantasy, his new gamebook Blood of the Zombies and get's nostalgic talking about his time in the games industry and in particular the electronic Fighting Fantasy titles released. In case you missed it, SFX magazine have released a Fantasy special that contains a 12-page Fighting Fantasy article written by Jonathan Green for the 30th Anniversary entitled The Legacy of Firetop Mountain.

Latest News - 4th May 2012

Attack Dogs by Kevin Crossley. Another superb teaser illustration from the forthcoming Blood of the Zombies.

Latest News - 1st May 2012

Welcome to the month of 'Winds' in the Titan calender. I think it should be more like 'Rains' in this modern age.

A great time was had at the Gadget Show Live, Something Unreal event in April that saw four Train2Game indie developer teams compete for a licence to release a Fighting Fantasy title on iOS. The lucky winner was Commando Kiwi who will now go onto develop and release The Warlock of Firetop Mountain: Lost Chapters. Lots of other new events are coming up that Ian and Steve will be attending over the coming months to launch the new gamebook, Blood of the Zombies.

The Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG The Crown of Kings (Sorcery!) Campaign as adpated by Graham Bottley is now avaliable from Arion Games via the Cubicle 7 store. Big Blue Bubble have put the five Fighting Fantasy iOS titles on sale due to the licence running out and are not being renewed. No news on any replacements as yet. Worldweaver have announced that House of Hell is the latest title to be released on the Kindle.

The infamous Fighting Fantasy artist Russ Nicholson, responsible for the internal art of the original The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, is selling his artwork on-line. Russ is also responsible for the poster art promoting the movie, DEATH, in which Ian Livingstone has a debut cameo role as a Postman.

Finally, I bring you the trailer for the forthcoming documentary by MmBroadast celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Fighting Fantasy.

May your stamina never fail!

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The Zombies are coming.....in August 2012!

Ian Livingstone has written a new Fighting Fantasy gamebook in which YOU decided the title of the book!

As we announced in January, Fighting Fantasy is going to be thirty years old this year and Ian Livingstone has written a new gamebook to celebrate this historic event.

In this adventure YOU are kidnapped and sold to a deranged megalomaniac who wants to build an army of undead to exact terrible revenge on those once mocked him. He hates everybody except for his scientists and servants. The scientists were instructed to develop a mutated gene in human blood which would be injected into innocent victims, turning them into Zombies. The madman's henchmen kidnapped hundreds of people who were locked up to await their fate. YOU are about to be injected with Zombie blood. The Zombie army is almost complete, ready to be unleashed upon the world in a frenzy of killing and wanton destruction. YOU have to avoid being transformed into a Zombie. YOU have to kill all the Zombies, dispose of the madman and escape from the castle. To do this you will need a lot of firepower to take down the hordes of Zombies. But don't kill everybody as there is one person who needs to be rescued...

The book was nearly written but Ian couldn’t decide between two titles he had thought up for it. So he decided to use the wisdom of the crowd and hold a vote on the Fighting Fantasy website. Fans were asked to vote for either Blood of the Zombies or Escape from Zombie Castle.

The response from the fans was fantastic, thank you, with nearly 1,000 votes cast in two days. We can now reveal that Ian’s new book will be called: 

Blood of the Zombies

Wizard Books will be publishing a special edition of the book in August, and Ian is hoping to have iOS, Android and perhaps a Kindle version out at the same time too. We will be announcing more news in the coming months ahead of publication.

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WORLDWEAVER: Kindle News

Kindle The Kindle version of Warlock is only available in the US at the moment. For news on the UK version coming soon click Here.

Work is already underway on the next book in the series, "The Citadel of Chaos", with a new book from the 60 book series to be adapted every month. More information on the Fighting Fantasy series and the Kindle adaptations can be found by visiting the: Worldweaver FF Kindle site.

And in other news
Teaching Aids Check out how to utilise the Fighting Fantasy books a useful teaching resource, particularly with reluctant readers.
Rule Guide A guide to assorted core Official Fighting Fantasy rules that have been introduced within the Gamebooks.

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Beyond the Pit

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Fighting Fantasy Beyond the Pit is a brand new definitive companion written to primarily present an exciting new guide to the monsters and creatures of the Gamebook series. A bestiary and in-depth guide that will allow Games Masters to frighten their adventurers with a minimum of work, and provide amateur writers with a resource to build even better amateur adventures.

This area of the Official Fighting Fantasy website has been created as an ongoing project to present the entire resource of all Fighting Fantasy related monsters and encounters in the series past and present. Through this alphabetical index, you can explore all the entries held in Beyond the Pit.

Opinion Polls

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Do you have an opinion on the Fighting Fantasy series? Would you like to let us (and other Fighting Fantasy fans and the world) know? Then our Opinion Poll area is for you. Every month we will be updating the polls area with new polls requested by fans. You'll find the most current polls below (and of course across the site) as well as other polls we've run in the past.

You can still vote on all of our polls even if they are not the most current! If you just want to see the results, click the 'Results' button to see the results and not vote.

Book Reviews

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Do you have an opinion on the Fighting Fantasy series? Would you like to let us (and other Fighting Fantasy fans and the world) know? Then our Reviews area is for you. We actively encouraged all our fans to write to us with any reviews of the books and submit them for the entire Fighting Fantasy community to read. Whether your a veteran or novice Fighting Fantasy fan, Share your your knowledge about the Fighting Fantasy series, your thoughts about the new covers or the interior illustrations, and your opinions on the story or difficulty of the book. Our reviews page will present all those reviews that have been contributed to us. Send your reviews of Wizards Fighting Fantasy Books to us at:

mail@fightingfantasy.com

Book Solutions

Solutions

Do you have a Fighting Fantasy solution? Then our Solutions area is for you. We actively encouraged all our fans to write to us with any solutions they have written of the books for the entire Fighting Fantasy community to read. Whether your a veteran or novice Fighting Fantasy fan, share your skills about the Fighting Fantasy series:

mail@fightingfantasy.com

Amateur Maps

Maps

Have you illustrated a Fighting Fantasy Map? Let us know and then send it in as our Maps area is now online. We want to present and post all the best maps (good and bad) online and are now actively encouraging all our fans to email or mail us any maps they have created of the books for the Fighting Fantasy community to read. Whether your a veteran or novice Fighting Fantasy fan, share your drawing skills about the Fighting Fantasy series:

mail@fightingfantasy.com

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