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Fighting Fantasy Follow-Up Preview: Fear My Stylus

2:20AM AJ Glasser | It’s been a little more than two months since I last saw Fighting Fantasy – the DS action/adventure RPG based on a choose-your-own-adventure book series of the same name. Here’s what’s changed since then. More »
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Fighting Fantasy DS Preview: Choose Your Own Adventure Makes A Comeback

10:00AM AJ Glasser | Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was a 1982 choose-your-own-adventure book written by now-game developers Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Now it’s a 2009 DS action role-playing game. More »
News

Aspyr Confirms Layoffs, Sources Say As Much As A Third

6:00AM Brian Crecente | Aspyr today confirmed to Kotaku that yesterday’s rumours of layoffs at their Austin-based studios are true. More »
Rumours

Rumour: Aspyr Hit With Layoffs?

3:00AM Brian Crecente | Austin-based developer Aspyr, best known for their work porting PC titles like Call of Duty 4 and Sims 2 to the Mac, were hit with layoffs this week, according to sources in the industry. More »

Treasure Troves – Augmented Reality DS WiFi Game

10:20AM Stuart Houghton | Gamasutra had a pleasant chat with Aspyr Software’s Justin Leingang in which the publisher/developer revealed some details about their new game Treasure Troves, which uses local wifi signals to generate in-game objects. More »

The Ultimate DS Stocking Stuffer – FutureU SAT Prep

1:20AM Mike Fahey | Parents take heed! Does your teen want a Nintendo DS for Christmas, but you worry about it distracting them from their schoolwork? Aspyr Media and the test prep wizards at Kaplan have your solution with futureU SAT Prep for the DS. First announced back in April, the ‘game’ is now hitting stores, just in time for Christmas. It might not be the console edutainment Crecente craves, but it’ll do in a pinch. More »

360 Supreme Commander Pushed Back

9:30PM Luke Plunkett | Patience, 360 fans, is a virtue, one any of you waiting for the console version of Supreme Commander would do well to polish up on. Aspyr, who are publishing the game, have announced that the title’s slipped to sometime later this year, with only a “spring or early summer” timeframe hinted at. Supreme Commander X360 Delayed to Summer [Shacknews] More »