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Windstorm Rises From Ensemble’s Ashes In Flying Car
2:20AM Mike Fahey | A former employee of Ensemble Studios has formed Windstorm Studios, already hard at work on “an online game unlike anything you’ve ever seen!” More »
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Halo Wars Sells A Million
1:40AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
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The Halo Universe Expanded: Part One
2:40AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
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Frankenreview: Halo Wars
7:20AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
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So, Why Did Ensemble Studios Close Up?
9:30PM Luke Plunkett | 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. More »
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Robot Entertainment Are Indeed The New Ensemble Studios
6:30PM Luke Plunkett | 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. More »
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Ex-Ensemble Staff Form New Studio
11:00AM Luke Plunkett | 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. More »
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Halo Wars: Making Console Real-Time Strategy Work
6:20AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
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Halo Wars DLC A Definite Possibility
2:20AM Mike Fahey | 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. More »
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