So You Want to Play Ender's Game?

By Geoff Duncan
January 31, 2008

Undertow developer Chair Entertainment has announced it has acquired video game rights to Orson Scott Card's famous sci-fi novel Ender's Game.

Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game was published in 1985, and follows the story of a young boy (Andrew "Ender" Wiggin) who somewhat unwittingly leads humanity's war against the alien "Buggers" by playing what appear to be nothing but very elaborate video games in a military academy called the "Battle School." It turns out, of course, that the games are really an interface with humanity's real-life military forces; Ender eventually defeats the Buggers by destroying the alien homeworld and, effectively, committing xecocide.

Ender's Game has long been considere ripe material for video game adaption, and now Undertow developers Chair Entertainment have announced plans to create video games based on the Battle Room featured in Ender's Game.

"I have been a huge fan of Ender's Game since I ...

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