Life Imitates Art - ENDER'S GAME

In August 1977, Orson Scott Card's novelette ENDER'S GAME was published in ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT and it caught the imagination of the sci fi world with its tale of very young, extremely smart, children trained to play war games for an upcoming battle with an alien species called the Formics.

Finally, more than 30 years after the story was released and a host of expanded and sequel novels were published (XENOCIDE, SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD, CHILDREN OF THE MIND, FIRST MEETINGS IN THE ENDERVERSE), Orson Scott Card has given Chair Entertainment Group the exclusive license to create games based on the books.

They plan to offer the games on all next-generation console, hand-held and PC platforms. With Card's help, Chair Entertainment will begin development later this year on a game inspired by the Battle Room, the mainstay of ENDER'S GAME. The first version is expected for release via downloadable platforms.

In the meantime, while we wait for a chance to train at Battle School to see for ourselves how we'd stack up against a bunch of precocious kids, Director Wolfgang Petersen (TROY) is currently working on a film version of the book series with Orson Scott Card writing the screenplay, hopefully insuring a movie that stays faithful to the books. (Can you say 'tie-ins'?)