Endgame

End game is the ending scenario of a particular game; when and how it will end, most prominently used in chess. Derived from that Endgame, Endgames, or End Game may refer to:

• Chess endgame refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board

In music

• "Endgame" (song), a track on R.E.M.'s album Out of Time
• Endgame (Megadeth album), a 2009 album by Megadeth; also the album's title track
• Endgame (Rise Against album), a 2011 album by Rise Against
• "End Game", a track from the album Full Tilt Rising, by Groove Addicts
• "End Game", a track on Ian Anderson's solo album Walk into Light
• Endgames (band), new wave/funk group from Scotland
• Endgame Tour, an ongoing concert tour by punk rock band Rise Against, taking place from 2011, in support of their sixth full-length studio album Endgame

In film

• Endgame (1983 film), 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic film
• Endgame (1999 film), short film about chess
• Highlander: Endgame, the fourth film in the Highlander series, released in 2000
• Endgame (2001 film), starring Daniel Newman
• Endgame (2007 film), Alex Jones film, "Blueprint for Global Enslavement"
• End Game (2006 film), 2006 political thriller
• Endgame (2009 film), 2009 British film about the end of apartheid in South Africa

In television

• Endgame (TV series), 2011 Showcase television series
• "Endgame", second-season episode of Alias
• "Endgame" (Babylon 5), episode of Babylon 5
• "Endgame" (Stargate SG-1), episode of Stargate
• "Endgame" (Star Trek: Voyager), two-hour series finale of Star Trek: Voyager
• "End Game" (The X-Files), episode of The X-Files
• "Endgame" (The Unit), episode of The Unit
• "Endgame" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), season 6 finale of Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• "Endgame", season 3 finale of Transformers Animated
• Endgame (Kyle XY), episode of Kyle XY
• "Endgame", the closing story arc of the Beast Machines series
• End game, a synonym for "bonus round" in a television game show
• "The Endgame Syndrome", episode of Men in Black: The Series
• End Game (Homicide: Life on the Street), a 1995 episode of the third season of the American police drama television series Homicide: Life on the Street
• "End Game", an episode of Dinosaur Revolution

In literature

• Endgame (play),a 1957 play by Samuel Beckett
• Endgame (anthology), anthology of short fiction in the Merovingen Nights science fiction series
• Endgame (Derrick Jensen books), two-volume work written by Derrick Jensen
• Endgame (Doctor Who), Doctor Who novel
• Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror, non-fiction book by Thomas McInerney and Paul E. Vallely
• Clone Wars Volume 9: Endgame, the ninth in a series of trade paperbacks entitled simply Clone Wars
• Enchanter's Endgame

Other

• End Game, a term in BitTorrent vocabulary concerning its method for obtaining the final few pieces of a file
• Endgames (Megatokyo), fictional MMORPG in Megatokyo
• Operation Endgame, a plan by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Endgame systems, provides offensive and defensive vulnerability research. Endgame was started by executives from ISS and CIA

See also

• The End of the Game, an album by British blues rock musician Peter Green, who was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member from 1967–70. Released in 1970, this was his first solo album, recorded in June of that year, only a month after leaving Fleetwood Mac