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Gearbox: The Wii U Will Get The Best-Looking Version Of Aliens: Colonial Marines Age of Empires Online, the new online-only version of the strategy classic, will be launching for real this Fall, both online and with boxed retail copies. [Age of Empires]
What can a lone War-Mage do against a never-ending horde of orcs hell-bent on invading his castle? Quite a lot, actually. We’ll find out for ourselves later this year, when Robot Entertainment releases its new action-strategy game, Orcs Must Die!
What games did some of the thinkers and titans of the game industry play in 2010?
Ensemble Studios is being shuttered. The studio’s Bruce Shelley leaves us with one last (and bittersweet) blog post.
Ryan Tyack led out the Australian team at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney last night. Ryan’s chosen sport is archery and he’s pretty good at it; he was a reserve for the archery team at the Beijing Olympics. What’s interesting is how he got into the sport.
“I just sat around playing Age of Empires all the time and my mum wanted me to do a sport and meet some kids,” Tyack told the SMH. “So I chose either fencing or archery as Age Of Empires had swordsmen and archers.”
The owner of Ensemble Studios and publisher of the upcoming Halo Wars has confirmed that the developer will be closing down once work on the Xbox 360 title is complete. In a statement to GameSpot, Microsoft said that the closure of the Dallas-based studio “does not reflect at all on Ensemble’s talent or the quality of Halo Wars”, adding that the team has made “invaluable contributions to the games industry with their Age of Empires and Age of Mythology games”.
