With so much buzz happening around this years TGS, XboxOZ360-Gamer takes a look at the yearly convention, but not from the typical angle.
Kotaku reports: "Ensemble Studios may be a sinking ship but that doesn't mean that the talented developers behind the Dallas-based, real-time centric studio are soon to be lost to the great deep blue."
Esemble Studios has confirmed that the Flood will be appearing in Halo Wars once the game comes out early 2009. No more details were given.
That Aussie Game Site have wrapped up the day in games reporting on Bungie's Kojima talent aquisition, new DLC for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and a swag of demos coming to the PSN. They've also got information on the free DLC for Gears of War 2, information regarding the Resistance 2 Beta, Dead Space colour-coded suits and a bunch of new media for Tom Clancy's End War. What a day!
GameTrailers TV will be showing video of the upcoming RTS Halo Wars. The video will cover the campaign mode and show off the story mode trailer for the game. The show is set to air October 3rd at 1am ET/PT.
Age of Empires and Halo Wars house Ensemble Studios has delivered top-notch strategy games and fostered a strong talented group of game developers over its 12 years.
Mythic Boss Mark Jacobs has commented on how feels the closure of Ensemble Studios is a terrible thing but that his studio has been careful to guard against "mistakes."
Addict Gaming Writes "Well guys, yesterday we brought you some freshly leaked images of the Brute Chieftain from Halo Wars, today we bring you 3 new character renders that you'll be seeing in the "Real Time Cutscenes" of Halo Wars. You'll notice that the renders are of a Marine, The Spirit Of Fire's AI Serina and a ships commander, most likely to also be from the Spirit Of Fire. These have once again come from the same tipster as yesterday, so thank you to him/her for continuing to support us!
Addict Gaming Writes "Halo Wars hasn't seen it's best week this week, with Ensemble announcing that they will be closing their doors come the games launch. However we have something that may give you a tiny nerdgasm that might make a mess, you have been warned! Here we have some never before seen Brute Chiefton images given to us by an Anonymous tipster earlier today. We have all heard and seen that Halo Wars will contain Brutes, but this looks immense!
It's been a rough week for the folks at Ensemble Studios. Following layoff rumors, Microsoft announced that after "Halo Wars" ships on the Xbox 360, the house that "Age of Empires" built will be no more.
Via Official Halo Wars wesbite:
On Tuesday, rumors swirled and were quickly confirmed that following the release of Halo Wars, Microsoft would close the venerable Ensemble Studios. But Microsoft corporate vice president of interactive entertainment Shane Kim says not to read too much into the studio's demise, and that Age of Empires is safe.
Confirmation has come quick and fast in regard to rumors surfacing earlier today that Microsoft would be closing its internal developer Ensemble Studios upon the completion of sci-fi real-time strategy game Halo Wars. In joint statements issued today, Microsoft and Ensemble have confirmed that the studio will be shut down once the Xbox 360-exclusive RTS set in the best-selling Halo franchise ships out early next year.
Shacknews has learned via multiple independent reports that developer Ensemble Studios will shut down operation following the release of its upcoming title Halo Wars.
GamePro gets the scoop on upcoming Halo Wars action figures made by McFarlane Toys and licensed by Microsoft, arriving spring 2009.
The kid, famous for replicating halo weapons from cardboard, have now accidentally shot himself.
Multiplayer's Patrick Klepek writes:
Kotaku writes: "The only sign of real-time strategy title Halo Wars at PAX comes during Graeme Devine's presentation of the game during the show.
The cover art for Halo Wars has been released, by the same guys behind Halo 2 and Halo 3.
Microsoft Game Studios recently posted a bunch of recruitment notices up on its site specifically referring to the full fledged development of the next Halo project.