Great Sadness

A tide of great sadness washes over Eddy and I at the knowledge of Ensemble closing... We both have loved the Age series since making our little Romans run around all those years ago in Age of Empires back in 1997, and have played every game since.

Ensemble have had an impressive track record with Microsoft Game Studios, but are now being closed down at the end of their current Xbox 360 project, Halo Wars.

Apparently Microsoft will be moving employees into a new game studio (maybe a restructure away from RTS? But then why couldn't this have been achieved with Ensemble? Marketing maybe?), and those who do not make the move to the new MGS studio will be put into as many positions within Microsoft as they can fill...

Perhaps this is the end of an Age...

Source: IGN