Ensemble Veteran Disputes Reports of Crunch Culture and Inefficient, Expensive Development
Responding to claims Ensemble Studios veteran Paul Bettner made during Game Developers Conference 2010, fellow ex-employee Ian Fischer has...
READ MORE >Microsoft: Rare, Lionhead Safe After Closures
Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios, wants to allay fears surrounding the fates of subsidiary studios Rare and Lionhead after the...
READ MORE >"It would seem to me that they need move of a lineup of DX10 games vs Xbox 360 games don't they? ..."
see all 13 commentsMicrosoft: Ensemble Closure "Right Thing for Our Business"
Following yesterday's news that Halo Wars and Age of Empires developer Ensemble Studios would close, publisher Microsoft Game Studios has come...
READ MORE >"I have some ideas. Halo Wars looked and played like garbage. People started quitting and going ..."
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PowerColor HD 3650 512M GDDR3 Xtreme PCS videocard on Bjorn3D. Moneual Labs M775 case on BigBruin. Zotac GeForce 8800 GT 512MB AMP! Edition...
READ MORE >PC Games 14% of 2007 Retail Games Sales; World of Warcraft and Sims Top PC Sales Charts
Update: The NPD Group has chimed in, attributing the low percentage of PC software sales to the growing shift towards digital distribution, which...
READ MORE >"As it occured to anyone, like it has to me , a gamer from DOS days, that PC gaming decline is ..."
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Asus Arctic Square cooler on Driver Heaven. Tuniq Ensemble 1200W PSU on Guru3D. Hiper HPU-5K880 and HPU-5B680 Type R Mk II PSUs on Benchmark...
READ MORE >THQ Acquires Rise of Nations Dev Big Huge Games
Publisher THQ has announced its plans to acquire Big Huge Games, the developer behind the Xbox Live Arcade board game Catan (X360), the Rise of...
READ MORE >"Glorious! THQ is just a publisher, but the games they publish are top notch (publishers ..."
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Hiper Type-R MKII HPU-5K880 / HPU-5B680 PSUs on Driver Heaven. Gigabyte G-Power 2 Pro CPU heatsink on techPowerUp. Crucial Ballistix 2GB 1600MHz...
READ MORE >Bungie Prototyping New IP, Developing "Halo Games"
A new interview with Bungie studio manager Harold Ryan in UK-based industry publication Develop states that the newly re-independent company is...
READ MORE >"PC gamers are snobs. How the hell can you justify calling a console overpriced? The only way to ..."
see all 20 commentsBungie Going Independent; Microsoft to Retain Equity Interest, Publishing Rights (Breaking)
It's true! The studio behind Halo and Marathon is separating from Microsoft and reclaiming its independence.
READ MORE >"Even though I hope so too, I doubt they will fully move on from it. MS still controls the Halo ..."
see all 107 commentsAge of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties Demo Released
Now available at FileShack is the Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties demo. The 612mb download includes the Japanese and British civilizations,...
READ MORE >"Is there usually a demo for expansions? Never bought AoE3, never impressed me much but I think I ..."
see all 2 commentsTurok Gets Hollywood Voice Actor Ensemble
If nothing else, Propaganda Games' reimagining of the Turok franchise will have a dinosauric load of Hollywood talent when it comes out next year,...
READ MORE >"mother fucker! I talk to fichtner almost every day and he never mentioned this, he knows im a ..."
see all 11 commentsAge of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties Goes Gold, Arriving Oct. 23
The second expansion pack for Ensemble Studios' 2005 PC RTS Age of Empires III has gone gold and will hit North American stores October 23....
READ MORE >"Am I the only one that never enjoyed any AOE games? I always found them to be excruciatingly ..."
see all 12 commentsE3 07: Halo Wars First Look
The most important thing to note about Ensemble Studio's upcoming Halo Wars, the company's real-time strategy take on Bungie's insanely popular...
READ MORE >"Oh I completely agree that a console is more "Comfortable". I generally buy games on the console ..."
see all 28 commentsAge of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties Q&A
Also on GameSpy (since yesterday, thanks to Blues News for noticing it) is this Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties Q&A. Big Huge Games' Brian...
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"me too but if there ever was one, this would probably be it and I HATE Halo "
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