Christian Martin

Unfortunately, Summer is coming to an end. Days are becoming shorter and school is starting up again. Many of us will reminisce about our sunny vacations while waiting in line to shell out way too much money for text books we won’t even read. Even if you’re not in school, think about it as a kind of metaphor for life, or something. Yeah, that’ll work.

But wait, my fellow scholars (metaphorical or not), the end of this particular Summer is not without its positives. There will be plenty of cute girls (or guys) to chat up while not listening to lectures in class.

Also, Shadow Complex came out.

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Chris Benson

In an interview with SCI FI Wire, acclaimed science fiction author, and guy who makes me angry, Orson Scott Card chatted briefly about his hopes for a possible game based on his most famous novel, Ender’s Game. Says Card:

My hope and plan is that the Ender’s Game computer and console games will not be mere tellings of the story, but rather true games with a high degree of replayability. In other words, you don’t play the game once, so you can act out the story (as with, say, the Harry Potter movie-based games), and then discard it. The Ender’s Game games will immerse you in the experience of different aspects of the life of these kids who train together in order to fight the war.

Such high hopes, Mr. Card.

I remember another game he wrote for. It was called Advent Rising, and it was buggy, rushed, and unbalanced. It’s important that I tell you that, so when I tell you his story was one of the worst parts of it, you have a suitable frame of reference.

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