News
futureU ships
AUSTIN, TX - November 5, 2008 - Aspyr Media,
in collaboration with Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, announced
today that futureU™, a first-of-its-kind SAT prep video game,
has shipped to retail stores nationwide for Nintendo DS™.
Following on the heels of the PC/Mac version of the same name,
futureU represents a new medium for supplemental SAT prep by
adapting test preparation material into a collection of fun
interactive games.
Utilizing the touch screen capabilities of DS, futureU offers a
complete interactive experience unlike any standard test taking
method to date. Designed for studying at home or on the go, the
game consists of six distinctive mini-games that are divided
into three main categories - Math, Reading and Writing.
Developed as a complement to traditional SAT study methods, the
game is grounded in Kaplan curriculum and features hundreds of
questions and track-able player progress.
futureU incorporates a wealth of in-game content that challenges
and sharpens skills including:
Reading: Focuses on refining players' reading skills,
vocabulary, main idea identification, themes and arguments,
technique, and recognizing word meanings based on context.
Writing: Concentrates on improving players' writing skills by covering topics such as passive voice, run-on sentences, misplaced modifiers, parallelism, conjunctions, fragments, coordination and subordination, pronouns, subject-verb agreement, tenses, adverbs and adjectives, gerunds, idioms, wrong words, and double negatives.
Math: Enable players to practice critical math areas such as algebra, geometry, data, statistics, probability, polynomials, and sequences.
futureU for Nintendo DS™ is rated "E" for Everyone by the ESRB and is available for an SRP of $29.99.