Chair Entertainment
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| Subsidiary of Epic Games | |
| Industry |
Interactive entertainment Computer and video games |
| Founded | May 12, 2005 in South Jordan, Utah, U.S. |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
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Key people
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Donald Mustard (founder, creative director) Geremy Mustard (founder, technical director) |
| Products |
Undertow Shadow Complex Infinity Blade Infinity Blade II Infinity Blade III Battle Breakers |
| Owner | Epic Games |
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Number of employees
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22 (2014) |
| Parent | Epic Games |
| Website | chairentertainment |
Chair Entertainment Group, LLC (commonly referred to as Chair Entertainment, stylized as ChAIR) is an American video game developer based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Chair Entertainment was formed in 2005 by Donald Mustard and Geremy Mustard, CEO Ryan Holmes, and other key Advent Rising core design team members Bert Lewis, Orlando Barrowes, Nathan Trewartha, Cameron Dayton and Jared Trulock. Soon after, Chair licensed the literary rights to its Empire property to best-selling author Orson Scott Card. The novel Empire was published by Tor Books and debuted as a New York Times Best-Seller in November 2006. Card has since released the literary sequel Hidden Empire and committed to writing additional novels for the series. Chair also secured an option with Joel Silver and Warner Bros. for the Empire movie, which is currently in development. Additionally, Chair has retained the rights to produce future video games and comic books based on its Empire property.
Chair began production on its first Xbox Live Arcade game, Undertow, in the fall of 2006. Released on November 21, 2007, Undertow is a fast-paced, action-shooter that takes place entirely underwater. Upon release, Undertow won numerous E3 and Editor's Choice awards and was named Xbox Live Arcade Game of the Year by Official Xbox Magazine.
On January 29, 2008, Chair announced it had acquired the interactive rights to Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game with plans to adapt the best-selling novel as a digitally distributed video game for all viable downloadable platforms. On May 20, 2008, Chair Entertainment was acquired by Epic Games. On August 19, 2009, Chair released its second game, Shadow Complex, exclusively for Xbox Live Arcade. The game was published by Microsoft Game Studios and won more than 45 Game of the Year and 35 E3 and Editors Choice Awards. The game was released to positive reviews, with a score of 88 out of 100 on Metacritic.com as of July 10, 2010. Shadow Complex featured a story written by famed comic book author Peter David and was set in Chair's Empire universe.
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