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Wednesday, Dec 10
Happy Tenth Birthday, Havok!
Some of the highly-anticipated games currently under development or slated for release in 2009 are Microsoft’s “Fable 2”, Namco Bandi’s classic remake “Splatterhouse”, Pandemic’s “Saboteur”, “HaloWars” from Ensemble Studios, and the new “Indiana Jones” game from LucasArts.
Thursday, Dec 4
Bruce Shelley To Enter AIAS Hall Of Fame [AIAS]
Bruce Shelley - the nice man who helped bring you Civilization, Railway Tycoon, Age of Empires and other classics - is to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall Of Fame....
Sunday, Nov 23
Week in Games: Turkey Week [New Releases]
Age of Empires: Mythologies (DS) All Star Cheer Leader (DS) Emma in the Mountains (DS) Personal Trainer: Cooking (DS) Skate City Heroes (Wii) Ski & Shoot (Wii) Thursday (Nov. 27.) Bolt (PC) Imagine Gymnast (DS) Puzzlegeddon (PC) The Chronicles of Spellborn (PC)
Monday, Nov 17
Halo MMO Was Originally Given The Green Light [Halo MMO]
Bad idea or not, there were plenty of people at both Microsoft and Ensemble Studios who thought making a Halo MMO was a good idea. So many, in fact, that prior to the game's cancellation, it had actually been given the green light to enter full-blown production, and it was only "some reorgani...
What Halo Wars Means to Ensemble
Lead Designer Graeme Devine told us games journalists that we needed to know three things about Halo Wars before we got to playing: the game was about 1) fast, visceral combat, 2) an epic storyline and 3) multiplayer. Unfortunately, because we’re still in the beta phase of the builds, we on...
Thursday, Nov 6
Halo Wars LE Sweetened By Mythic Map Pack [Halo 3]
Today, Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studios announced that the much-anticipated strategy game “Halo Wars” will be landing at retailers worldwide this February in both a standard and Limited Collector’s Edition format. Taking the “Halo” battle beyond the first person, “Halo W...
Monday, Mar 17
World Cyber Games' 2008 Games Announced [News]
Official WCG 2008 PC Games: · Starcraft®: Brood War™: (1 v. 1 RTS) · WarCraft® III: The Frozen Throne™ (1 v. 1 RTS) · Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath™ (1 v. 1 RTS) · Age of Empires® III: The Asian Dynasties (1 v. 1 RTS) · Need For Speed™ ProStreet (Xbox 360 in US & Canada) (1 v. 1 Racing)
Thursday, Feb 28
The 20 Top-Selling PC Games For January Were... [PC]
1. World Of Warcraft 3. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest 4. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade 5. The Sims 2 Deluxe 6. Diner Dash 7. 15000 Games 10. Crysis 13. Battlefield 2 14. Warcraft III Battle Chest 16. Rock Tour Tycoon 18. The Sims 2 Seasons 19. Age Of Empires III 20. Age Of Empires III: Asian Dynasties
Thursday, Jul 26
Feature: Pirates vs Dragons In Battle For SE Asia
Big-name publishers currently signed up to the service include Atari, Ubisoft, Eidos and Microsoft Game Studios. Which to be honest isn't as great as it could be, and the absence of EA, Activision and Take-Two are telling. But it's definitely a start, and the company are constantly adding...
Wednesday, Jul 11
E307: Halo Wars E3 Fact File
Created from the ground up for the Xbox 360 console and Controller, "Halo Wars" is being developed by the veteran real-time strategy developer Ensemble Studios, the team responsible for the best-selling and critically acclaimed "Age of Empires®" franchise on the PC. "Halo Wars" can be...
Friday, May 18
Big In Japan: Age of Empires Goes To Asia, Wacky RTS Misadventures Ensue
Microsoft announced today that the hugely popular Age of Empires III is getting the expansion treatment, again, with the fall release of Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties. In development at Rise of Nations developer Big Huge Games—as the AoE III team at Ensemble Studios slaves away...
Wednesday, Aug 30
GC06: If You Hate RTSes, What Do You Say To Bruce Shelley?
In this case, that passion is RTS games. The game he's about to show me in Leipzig? Age of Empires 3: The Warchiefs, the upcoming expansion pack to the critically-acclaimed but, by me, completely ignored RTS title Age of Empires 3. I don't know anything about Warchiefs. And I don't really know...
