This is pretty neat, I have been wanting to mess around with assembly on a microcontroller for awhile. This is so much easier then setting it up on a AT* chip.
An official statement whether your claim is true would be nice, since as far as I know Starfighter seems to be about different programming tasks (but of course it is quite possible that Starfighter will contain things that hasn't yet publicly been talked about):
https://microcorruption.com
We're shipping a web-based AVR game in a week or so.