Fighting Fantasy is coming to Sound Realms!

Ready your adventurer’s instincts and tune your ears – Fighting Fantasy is coming to Sound Realms!

The team from Sweden are reimagining the iconic gamebooks by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson as immersive audio adventures, bringing classic choices and epic quests to life in a whole new format.

Gustav Sundin and Oscar Carlquist of Sound Realms with
Sir Ian Livingstone, Marc Gascoigne and Jonathan Green
of Fighting Fanatsy at the UK Games Expo 2025.

“Sound Realms are developing new ways of storytelling, and I am really looking forward to listening to their audio adaptations of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks in this innovative new format.” – Ian Livingstone

To celebrate this exciting collaboration, there is currently a discount on the F.I.S.T. Deluxe Box, available from the Sound Realms online shop! The 20% discount is applied at checkout, and lasts for two weeks – so take thechance now if you've been eyeing it up.

This is just the beginning of an exciting new quest in Sound Realms history, so watch this space!

Fighting Fantasy at the UK Games Expo 2025

Fighting Fantasy will have a significant presence at the UK Games Expo this year. The event is on from Friday 30th May - Sunday 1st June 2025 at the NEC, just outside Birmingham, and you will find the Fighting Fantasy crew at Stand 2-359 in Hall 2.

Fighting Fantasy - Stand 2-359

As you can see from the plan of Hall 2, Sir Ian Livingstone will be in attendance, as will FF author and historian Jonathan Green, who collaborated on Magic Realms: The Art of Fighting Fantasy. However, please note that Sir Ian will only be attending on the Saturday and the Sunday, while Jonathan will be there for all three days.

In other exciting news, another of the Special Guests attending the event is the American-born games designer Steve Jackson - author of Scorpion Swamp, Demons of the Deep and Robot Commando, and the man who will be bringing Fighting Fantasy back to the US later this year. Talking of which, the first five books are now available to pre-order from Steve Jackson Games.

Others in attendance at the UK Games Expo include representatives of Martin Wallace Games, who are currently putting the finishing touches to Fighting Fantasy Adventures, All Rolled Up, who are going to be selling the first in an extended range of FF-themed products, Dan Jack of Blue Giant Studios, who produce the official Fighting Fantasy Legends miniatures range, and Oscar Carlquist of Sound Realms, publishers of the updated Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T. audio adventure.

Joining Sir Ian and Jonathan on the Fighting Fantasy stand will be Paul Toderas from Germany games company Ulisses Spiele. He will be demoing the company's new Fighting Fantasy Quest - The Warlock of Firetop Mountain board game, so why not stop by Stand 2-359 and try it out yourself?

Lastly, Sir Ian will be giving a talk about his 50 Years in Games, on Saturday 31st May, from 3:00-4:00pm, on Stage B in Hall 4.

If you are going to the UK Games Expo this year, may your STAMINA never fail!

A Message from Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson would like to apologise for his absence at Fighting Fantasy Fest 5. It is an event he is very disappointed to have to miss.

As many of you already know, Steve suffers from Parkinson's Disease and because of this, as well as other personal reasons, he is unable to attend this year's convention.

He asked the Warlock to pass on this message to fans:

Over the years, Fighting Fantasy Fests have served well in bringing the FF community together. This year's Guest Artist of Honour is Iain McCaig, illustrator of Deathtrap Dungeon, who always puts on a brilliant show. Also Sound Realms, a Swedish company, is launching an audio visual version of F.I.S.T. - the first ever telephone game.

I wish I could be there.

Best wishes

Steve

Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T. will return at Fighting Fantasy Fest 5

The news is out! Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T., the dial-up dungeon sensation of late '80s, will return on Saturday 7 September 2024, with the official launch of the game at Fighting Fantasy Fest 5!

Just as amazing as it was back in 1988, this time F.I.S.T. will be in the digital realm. The Sound Realms team will be attending FFF5 to celebrate the launch of the new adventure and give attendees and exclusive taste. 

To access F.I.S.T. once it is released, download the Sound Realms app - available on IOS and Android - now.

The History of Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T.

With excitement building regarding the return of Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T. to audio, courtesy of Sound Realms, gaming historian Jordan Sorcery has published a YouTube video that is an in-depth take on the history of Fantasy Interactive Scenarios by Telephone, and you can watch it below.

Sounds Realms will be attending Fighting Fantasy Fest 5 in September.

 

Wishing you a very Merry Fighting Fantasy Christmas

After all the excitement of Fighting Fantasy's anniversary year in 2022, by comparison 2023 has been a little quieter. Nonetheless, we have still celebrated the 40th anniversary of five Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, new editions of FF adventures have appeared in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, and Denmark, and the Fighting Fantasy Adventures card game funded on Gamefound.

Click on the image above to place a late pledge.

As well as all the highs, there was one very poignant low in 2023, and that was the passing of FF legend Russ Nicholson, the artist who gave Zagor the Warlock his iconic look.

There is lots to look forward to next year, including the publication of YOU ARE THE HERO: An Interactive History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks and MAGIC REALMS: The Art of Fighting Fantasy, more from Arion Games and The Warlock Returns, Fighting Fantasy Fest 5 in the autumn, and the return of Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T.!

Happy Holidays!

F.I.S.T. Returns!

Steve Jackson's F.I.S.T. (Fantasy Interactive Scenarios by Telephone) is set to return in 2024! The first ever interactive phone game returns to mobile devices, with the original audio and gameplay intact, courtesy of Steve Jackson and Sound Realms. Watch the trailer below and then pre-order the game here!

Billick O'Doone

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Steve Jackson's
Secrets of Salamonis

If you have read  Steve Jackson's Secrets of Salamonis you will have encountered a certain child-like character who goes by the name of Billick O'Doone and who is, in fact, a Leprechaun. He even appears in one of Tazio Bettin's filler illustrations that appear throughout the book.

Billick O'Doone, by Tazio Bettin.

The inclusion of the character was not just some random idea. Billick O'Doone first appeared in another Steve Jackson project many years ago - the telephone RPG F.I.S.T. Adventures.

If you have yet to play Steve Jackson's latest adventure, you can buy it here. To find out more titbits of curious information about the world's premier gamebook series, it's not too late to place a Late Pledge to Jonathan Green's ultimate 40th anniversary edition of this FF gamebooks history YOU ARE THE HERO .

Happy St. Patrick's Day!