Aspyr Announces futureU The SAT Game

July 23, 2008

ASPYR ANNOUNCES THE TITLE AND ALL-NEW DETAILS FOR SAT PREP
VIDEOGAME

Called futureU™, Game Will Offer Three Areas Of Dynamic
Interactive Study Based On Proven Kaplan SAT* Test Preparation Methods

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Aspyr Media, in collaboration with Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, today
announced the name and all-new details for its SAT prep game. Called futureU™,
the company has revealed that the game will be divided into three main
categories – Math, Reading and Writing. Designed to be an engaging and visually
dynamic complement to traditional SAT programs, futureU teaches core concepts,
measures player progress, and provides an accessible, interactive experience
unlike any other learning program of its kind. The game is rooted in Kaplan’s
proven curriculum and includes original methods and specialized strategies.

These details come on the heels of Aspyr and Kaplan’s
announcement in March that the companies have entered into a multi-year
agreement in which Aspyr will bring Kaplan-branded interactive entertainment
products to market. Scheduled to hit retail outlets this fall, futureU is the
first title to be released under the agreement. The game is currently in
development at Aspyr Studios and will be published by Aspyr Media for Nintendo
DS™, PC and Mac.

Aspyr has released the following details on each of the
categories:

  • Reading: Focuses on honing players’ reading skills with
    vocabulary building, main idea identification, attitude and tone, themes and
    arguments, technique, and recognizing word meaning based on context.
     
  • Writing: Seeks to improve players’ writing skills by
    covering topics such as passive voice, run-on sentences, misplaced
    modifiers, parallelism, wordiness, conjunctions, fragments, coordination and
    subordination, pronouns, subject-verb agreement, tenses, adverbs and
    adjectives, gerunds, idioms, wrong words, and double negatives.
     
  • Math: Enables players to delve into critical areas such
    as algebra, geometry, data, statistics, probability, polynomials, and
    sequences.
     
  • Additionally, players can engage in a section called
    "Test Skills" that teaches test-taking skills such as how to spot wrong
    answers in a multiple choice sequence, know when to skip questions, and time
    management.