Chair's Ender's Game Video Game Series Put On Hold

Read Ender's Game, Everyone.

They were making an Ender's Game game? I did not know about this.

I'm a fan of Ender's Game.  I'm annoyed that an idiotic company policy is (apparently) killing the rights to what could be a fun game.

If they want to make new IP, then they could at least sell Ender to somebody who will make use of it.  Of course, they won't.

Can paying-members get an option to filter out the humorless exposition in Brad Nicholson's writing?

bummer

I read Ender's Game a long time ago, it's a great book but the man is so repugnant I don't want to touch anything else he's involved in. I felt weird buying Shadow Complex but figured what I give to the organizations like the Human Rights Campaign should off-set that fraction of the 15 dollars he gets many times over. 

The book was great, but i agree with the people saying  a game would probably suck.  I just don't think it has enough action to pull off a full production game.  Now if they wanted to make a Battle Room game on XBLA, i could see this alot more easily.  But even that wouldn't reflect what made the books so good.  It would turn out a generic title with the Ender's Game name stamped onto it.  This is all probably for the best.

Infinity Blade was originally a Kinect game.

" While the book means alot to me, I hope a game never comes out. Any money in the pocket of OSC could get used to further his homophobic agenda. Fuck Orson Scott Card. "

I hadn't heard of this before the article, now you made me mourn the fact I will never get to play it. Thanks Giantbomb :(

" Shitty to write off Ender's Game off of reading a wikipedia article.  "

While the book means alot to me, I hope a game never comes out. Any money in the pocket of OSC could get used to further his homophobic agenda. Fuck Orson Scott Card.

Got ended.

I love Ender's Game. One of my favorite pieces of sci-fi. But as a video game I... I don't see it being very entertaining. Also that picture/caption combination is hilarious and wrong.

Well Shadow Complex was part of their collabo with Orson Scott Card, so I would have liked to have seen more of that.

More like Ender's Video Game.
 
I think Ender's Game is probably responsible for the trope where half of all Strategy RPGs (including FFT) need to start off at some kind of military school. The other half seem to involve the young monarch of a kingdom running into friendly mercenaries.

Ever since I read tat book, I thought it would make a great game. this is a shame, but at least its not because they are shutting down.

I love Ender's Game and have read the book more times than I can remember. 
 
And I think it would likely make for a terrible video game.

What ever keep it on hold and make shadow complex 2 Asap who's with me

This saddens me. I was looking forward to this.

K, now go work on the sequel to Shadow Complex.

Shitty to write off Ender's Game off of reading a wikipedia article. 

:(

In 2008, Chair Entertainment announced plans to turn Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novel Ender's Game into a series of video games for all current consoles, handhelds, and even the PC. The project, which would have placed players in simulated combat situations within the fiction's futuristic "Battle Room," has since been put on indefinite hold by Chair. The purchase of the studio by Epic Games (a publisher with a taste for unique IP) is a big reason why we'll probably never see the series.

"We have and had an amazing design for the Ender's Game game," studio co-founder Donald Mustardtold Joystiq, but "one of Epic's primary objectives is to create original and unique franchises. I don't know that Ender's Game fits into that strategic objective anymore." 

"So, probably not," Mustard said, speaking to this game's eventual release. "Not from us" at least, he said. 
 

"Most of the story focuses around the Battle School, a space station used as a military training complex for children. The IF tests all children on Earth and selects the brightest for the Battle School for military training. Students are organized into armies with 40 members and assigned to conduct simulated battles in zero gravity. Upon graduation, students move on to either Tactical School, Combat School, Pre-Command School or Command School with three years in Pre-Command. The Battle School forms in response to the need of highly skilled officers for the wars against the Formics, and most of the officers in the IF pass through the school at one time."