Ender’s Game comic featured at Comic-Con 2008 this weekend
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Jane
Entertainment Weekly featured these two screenshots from the new Ender’s Game comic being featured at this week’s Comic-Con 2008:
ENDERVERSE.com
Everything in the known “Ender’s Game Universe”. And nothing that’s not.
Orson Scott Card dons teachers cap this Saturday at ComicCon 2008
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Jane
Orson Scott Card is scheduled to conduct a workshop in San Diego this weekend on making it in the comics biz. From the ComicCon 2008 Saturday schedule page:
6:00-7:00 Impact University: How to Write and Draw Comics and Graphic Novels— Some of the biggest names in comics are on hand to teach you what it takes to make it in comics and graphic novels. The star-studded faculty includes Peter David (Dark Tower, X-Factor), Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game, Wyrms), Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil, Sandman), Brian Miller (Hi-Fi Color Design), and Comics Buyer’s Guide senior editor Maggie Thompson. Find out the best way to submit your work, learn the dos and don’ts of the business, and participate in a Q&A session. Room 7AB
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Bender’s Game “Sneak Peek” Video Released
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by Jane
As reported on Wired.com’s Underwire Blog:
The third episode should please Futurama and sci-fi fans alike: Bender’s Game is ripe with nerd references and tributes to geek lore.
In addition to the telltale title riff on Orson Scott Card’s 1985 sci-fi novel Ender’s Game, Star Trek’s George Takei guest stars as himself in the new movie. Multiple homages to Dungeons & Dragons and The Lord of the Rings also can be seen in the preview (above).
Things are looking up for Ender’s Game video game franchise
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Jane
In our opinion, the recent announcement that Chair Entertainment was acquired by Epic Games bodes very well for the upcoming Ender’s Game video games. Chair owns the rights for producing the upcoming titles, and Epic produced fanboy favorites Unreal and Gears of War. (Did somebody say “Bugger Wars”?)
Video: Marvel Interviews Orson Scott Card about Ender’s Game Comic Books
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Jane
Orson Scott Card dishes on the announcement that Marvel Comics have opted the rights to publish both Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow; think “story board” for the Ender’s Game movie.
Ender’s Game listed #59 on the Modern Library’s “100 Best Novels” list
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by Jane
Random House keeps a list of what they consider to be the 100 Best Novels of the “Modern Library”; Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game comes is listed at #59! “Cult Classic” my butt.
“Battle Room” Interview w/ Chair Entertainment: Reposted on Google Video
Posted on April 12th, 2008 by Jane
Seems like nobody likes Microsoft’s Silverlight; we took the liberty of reposting the Channel 10 video on YouTube (file too big) Google Video for everyone that doesn’t have Silverlight installed (does anybody?):
Is Undertow the right model for the “Battle Room” game?
Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Jane
After reading that the Battle Room game was going to be developed by the same folks that produced another XBOX LIVE downloadable game called Undertow, I gave it a shot. But it didn’t really do anything for me. It just seemed a bit, well… two-dimensional. It was more of an arcade style shooter than an immersible virtual world that you might envision for an Ender’s Game video game. While the graphics in Undertow portray a 3D world; the gameplay is restricted to moving on an X/Y axis: up, down, forward & back. Except for the cut-scenes, there weren’t even any camera angles that give you the feeling of really being immersed in the game. And that’s really what I’d like to see in a Battle Room video game… I want to feel like I’m in there with Dragon Army.
But maybe I’m missing something. Undertow has been getting awards that are encouraging me to take another look, maybe this weekend. Has anyone here played Undertow before, and do you think this would be a good format for the Battle Room game in the works?
Here’s the Undertow trailer; what do you think? Post your thoughts in the comments box down below:
Endervere Comics: Gold Bug Screenshots
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Jane
It’s almost impossible to find anything online about the Enderverse Comics; outside of the occasional press release from last year, there hasn’t been anything official out there for us to look at, which makes it difficult to spread the gospel. The DabelBrothers.com site has no info, nor really does Marvel.com; even Hatrack.com (Orson Scott Card’s official site) has little info worth mentioning. We’d love to see a more comprehensive site put together to showcase the work, hear the stories behind the story development and artwork, and perhaps sneak previews into future work. But it’s dead out there, folks. So what’s an Enderverse fan to do?
Well, it’s not much, (and we question it’s copyright usage) but there is a site “across the pond” that features some screenshots of the Gold Bug comic:
http://forum.superpouvoir.com/showthread.php?t=6836
It includes this one, also found on the Marvel.com site:
Video Interview: Chair discusses the new “Battle Room” video game
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Jane
Great new games coming your way from XBOX Live arcade
While we’re optimistically skeptical about the development of the Ender’s Game video game “Battle Room”, it’s heartening to hear Chair Entertainment’s Donald Mustard talk about wanting to “not ruin” the franchise, and that he suspects this will be one of the more “fully featured” games we’ve seen in the modern downloadable games space.
It’s actually a great interview, covering a bit of Chair’s history and relationship with OSC. They apparently approached Orson Scott Card to write the book “Empire” for the video game of the same title, rather than the typically “other way around” hollywood approach; and that project eventually led to discussions around the Ender’s Game franchise. Apparently, they were involved in both Advent Rising and the downloadable game Undertow; I’m not sure that’s a good sign (I tried Undertow last week, and got bored pretty quickly.)
We found it! The Enderverse Comic “Gold Bug” is now available for sale (but hidden.)
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Jane
It was pretty difficult to find it online; we tried searching for “ender’s comics”, “enderverse comic”, “ender’s game comic”,”gold bug”, etc, but found very little information about it anywhere, including Hatrack.com, the defunct Dabel Brothers site, or even on the Marvel Comics catalog site. But we finally tracked it down. The Enderverse Comic “Gold Bug” was in fact published by Marvel Comics this summer, but not as a stand-alone comic. That’s probably why it’s so impossible to find through Google; there’s no dedicated product page for the Gold Bug title. Instead, it was printed inside of an Alvin Maker title: “Red Prophet: The Tales Of Alvin Maker”. We’re placing our order today; we’ll post a review as soon as we can.
In the meantime, you can read more about it here at Amazon.com: