Ensemble Studios Rise from the Ashes Anew

Katrina "ShadokatRegn" Pawlowski February 15th, 2009 at 10:53 AM    


With the recent success of the Halo Wars Demo even before the games release, many people wondered what would happen to Ensemble Studios, who officially announced their closure last month. Microsoft had taken steps to close down Ensemble after the release of Halo Wars, but the success of the developer means they weren't quite ready to go quietly.

In this case, the eminent demise of Ensemble Studios has made way for the creation of a new studio, Robot Entertainment. Many of the long-time Ensemble employees, including its co-founder Tony Goodman, have taken their loss, and turned it into something to grow on. Will we see more wonderfully crafted console RTS's (please say yes), PC exclusive titles, or something different all together?

I suppose only time will tell, but we're happy to see these guys stick around, even if it's under a different banner.

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rafoca at 10:12 AM on 2.15.2009
Great news!!
 
Mrxknown_JG at 06:20 PM on 2.15.2009
Yeah...hopefully they are free of Microsoft. I mean, this is one of MS' longest running devs from the pre-Xbox days and they just close it?

Ensemble is known as a great studio, why mess with that? Close some of the less productive studios! (Although, i would prefer no one to lose their jobs... )
 
Zonf86 at 01:16 AM on 2.16.2009
Robot Entertainment ftw! I love all these new dev names.

Anyone want to form a studio with me?

Rainbow Pancake Studios (c).
 
Zecon at 12:05 PM on 2.16.2009
To be honest, they really couldn't have picked a better time to start a new studio anyways, since I'm sure Halo wars will sell quite a few copies.
 


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