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Ian Livingstone’s latest Fighting Fantasy title is now available on Android and iDevice.

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Upon the expiration of its Fighting Fantasy license on August 14, Big Blue Bubble will be required to remove its adventure game books from the App Store. The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Deathtrap Dungeon, Citadel of Chaos, City of Thieves and Creature of Havoc will no longer be available for purchase after this date, and Big Blue Bubble is not aware of any plans for another developer to rework the classic Ian Livingstone titles. Meanwhile, Australian developer Tin Man Games is the proud owner of a new Fighting Fantasy license, with debut title Blood of the Zombies due soon.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Tin Man Games, the developers of ‘gamebook’ adventures, have nabbed the license to put out iPhone, iPad and Android apps based on the new Fighting Fantasy gamebook from Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the series.

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The winner of Epic Game’s Make Something Unreal contest during Gadget Show Live 2012 has been announced as UK developer Commando Kiwi. The team bested three other groups in the finals and walked away with a full commercial licence for Unreal Engine 3 with its iOS game The Warlock of Firetop Mountain: Lost Chapters. All of the games created based on the Fighting Fantasy titles over the weekend will be released via the App Store in within the next few weeks. Thanks, Eurogamer.

Epic and Train2Game are at Gadget Show Live 2012, which is going on in Birmingham, UK until April 15, where four start-up studios are creating iOS games based on Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson’s Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing books. Below the break, is a video of the panel Train2Game held yesterday.
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Epic and Train2Game have announced the panel which will be judging the entries for Make Something Unreal Live. Among others, Steve Jackson, co-creator, “Fighting Fantasy”, Ian Livingstone, and Peter Molyneaux will preside.

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Epic and Train2Game have secured the rights for the iOS games of Make Something Unreal Live, to be based on the Fighting Fantasy series of role-playing books created by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. New iOS games based on the adventure books will debut at Gadget Show Live 2012.

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Renowned Fighting Fantasy author Jonathan Green has penned a new title in Tin Man Games’ Gamebook Adventure series, it’s about an arachnid overlord and it’s out tomorrow for iOS devices via the App Store.

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The first trailer for Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain has landed.

It’s past the break courtesy of FileFront.

The first-person RPG based on the book by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson is expected to hit DS in time for the holiday shopping extravaganza, and iPhone and iPod Touch are also expected to get versions based on the books later this year.

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New screens for the DS adventure title Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain have popped up over on CVG.

“We showed the playable prototype of our game to Ian Livingstone back in 2007,” said Damir Slogar, CEO of developer Big Blue Bubble. “Ian immediately recognized the potential and we agreed to continue the development using the Fighting Fantasy brand.

“Around the same time, Steve & Ian had just published the 25th anniversary edition of The Warlock of Firetop Mountain so the choice to base the game on that book was obvious.”

iPhone and iPod Touch are also expected to get versions based on the books later this year.

The DS version is expected to be released just in time for the holidays.

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Eidos president Ian Livingstone’s confirmed that the Fighting Fantasy books, beginning with Warlock of Firetop Mountain, are to be released as iPhone and iPod Touch games beginning later this year.

“I’m happy to say, because of the advances in technology, there’s been recurring interest,” he said, talking of the paper gaming series in the latest OneLifeLeft episode.

“Not just from the book publishers… but from iApp people who are saying, ‘Why don’t you put these Fighting Fantasy game books onto an iApp.’

“And we thought, ‘Great idea.’”

Livingstone added: “Quite confident in saying that sometime later on this year there’ll be Fighting Fantasy adventures on [iPhone and iPod Touch].”

He also says they’ll play in the same way as the books, and that you’ll be able to shake your iThing to roll dice on the screen.

Listen from 26 minutes onward. They talk specifically about it at 28.30.

Fighting Fantasy was an iconic RPG book series that sold more than 16 million copies in 23 languages, mainly in the 80s.