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Big Huge Games Still Working on a RPG

A while ago, in 2007, Big Huge Games announced that they planned on creating a role playing game. For a while, there was no information on the title. Ken Rolston and Mark Nelson, who had previously designed games like Morrowind and Oblivion, and who are working on the project, have recently talked a bit about it.It&#...

31 March 2009
03:42 GMT

Windstorm Studios Spawned from Ensemble Studios Demise

It seems that the people who once worked for Ensemble Studios, responsible for the enormously popular Age of Empires series, aren't going to rest on their laurels and stay out of the game development business. With their initial studio gone, apparently a victim of its own success, most of the people who worked f...

23 March 2009
03:40 GMT

Ensemble Studios Was a Victim of Its Own Success, Former Employee Says

Strategy games are a very special genre in the industry, as they usually address a niche audience, but, with the right marketing, can also appeal to a broader one. However, once they release a successful title, their developers are usually only classified by specialists as Real Time Strategy experts, and when they co...

12 March 2009
13:21 GMT

Here Are the Reasons Why Ensemble Studios Closed Down

In the gaming industry, some development studios have gained a certain degree or fame for their great franchises and high quality games, which have been entertaining players up to this day. That has been the case with Ensemble Studios, the company responsible for the Age of Empires series of Real Time Strategy (RTS) ...

23 February 2009
02:46 GMT

Bruce Shelley Shares His Thoughts on Ensemble Studios Shutting Down

Strategy games are very popular these days, and once a company decides to create one, it must stand by it and ensure that players will have a great long-term experience. Such was the case with Ensemble Studios, responsible for the very successful Age of Empires franchise, which took players through a lot of great his...

30 January 2009
02:28 GMT

Age of Empires: The Age of Kings Hints (DS)

Age of Empires: The Age of Kings is a turn-based strategy game for the Nintendo DS. It was produced by Majesco and released on February 14, 2006. The game allows the player to take command of one of five different historical civilizations: the Britons, the Franks, the Mongols, the Saracens and the Japanese. The game...

30 September 2008
08:32 GMT

Bruce Shelley's Thoughts on the Closing of Ensemble Studios

Microsoft has decided to close down Ensemble Studios and, although this piece of news is a bit old now, we have just received an official statement from Bruce Shelley, the boss of Ensemble, via the studio's blog. Even if a lot of people frowned upon Microsoft's decision of closing the studio that was respon...

23 September 2008
03:26 GMT

Age of Empires Developer Is Closing Down

Microsoft has released a statement detailing the fact that the developer Ensemble Studios, which is wholly owned by the software company, would be closed down after it finishes work on Halo Wars, the real time strategy that pits the UNSC against the Covenant troops.Ensemble was founded way back in 1995 and it is head...

10 September 2008
04:09 GMT

Age of Empires Brings Mythological Warfare to Your DS

The name Age of Empires has always been associated with Microsoft and its Ensemble studio. And, while the latest title for the PC, Age of Empires III might have been a bit of disappointment, mainly because it continued to push for the same classic style of real time strategy while games like Warhammer and Company of ...

4 June 2008
16:06 GMT


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