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Age Of Empires Creator Working On… Settlers 7

Living legend Bruce Shelley, with Civilization and Age of Empires as notches on his belt, has been out of the limelight since his studio, Ensemble, went bust last year. So, Bruce, been keeping busy?


March 20, 2009
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Windstorm Rises From Ensemble’s Ashes In Flying Car

A former employee of Ensemble Studios has formed Windstorm Studios, already hard at work on “an online game unlike anything you’ve ever seen!”


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Halo Wars Sells A Million

Microsoft’s latest foray into the Halo universe has surpassed the million copy sold mark, making Halo Wars the best-selling console real-time strategy game of the current generation.


March 3, 2009

The Halo Universe Expanded: Part One

In the first of a new series of videos dealing with the expansion of the Halo universe, members of Bungie, Ensemble, and the gaming press talk Halo history.


February 26, 2009

Frankenreview: Halo Wars

Twenty years before Halo: Combat Evolved the war between humanity and the Covenant was a much more strategic affair, as proven in Ensemble Studios’ swan song, Halo Wars.


February 20, 2009
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So, Why Did Ensemble Studios Close Up?

Bruce Shelley is an industry legend. Helped Sid Meier make Civilization, created Age of Empires, then joined Ensemble. Now, though, Ensemble are gone. And Shelley is trying to explain why that happened.


February 18, 2009
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Robot Entertainment Are Indeed The New Ensemble Studios

When Robot Entertainment said “hello, world” last week, it seemed likely that, being made up of an Ensemble co-founder and a bunch of Ensemble staff, they’d be taking over Ensemble’s work.


February 14, 2009
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Ex-Ensemble Staff Form New Studio

Ensemble Studios, developers of the Age of Empires series and Halo Wars, are dead. But the developers who comprised Ensemble? They’re still alive, and some of them have formed a new studio.


Halo Wars: Making Console Real-Time Strategy Work

The third in a series of video documentaries covering the upcoming Xbox 360 game Halo Wars features members of the development team explaining how to make a console real-time strategy game that works.


January 28, 2009
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Halo Wars DLC A Definite Possibility

At a preview event for UK journalists, the lead producer behind Ensemble Studio’s real-time strategy take on the Halo universe suggested that downloadable content for the game could be in the works.