Stainless Steel Studios No More

According to this thread on the Heaven Games forums, Empire Earth developer Stainless Steel Studios is shutting down. The developer was working on the strategy game Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War, which was apparently only a few weeks away from shipping. Its unclear what will happen to the game.

this is truly a dissapointment. The talent of our team was incredible, the synergy we had, amazing. We would have been a gold-mine pickup for one of the bigger publishers if they wanted a top-notch RTS game company under their wing.. but alas... People are spreading to the wind now, unfortunantly seperating some amazing talent that worked on, what I feel is one of, if not the most, modern RTS Technology in the industry. 7 years, and.. hmm.. something like 70 programming years (man years) put into the product. If Rise & Fall is released by someone else (its just a few bugs from finishing), you guys will love it! RAF is an RTS evolutionary game, and its a shame we won't be around to write its XPacks and sequels.