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Microsoft To Close Halo Wars Studio

Posted by Soulskill on from the pack-a-bag dept.

Shacknews reports that Ensemble Studios, developer of the Age of Empires series, will be shut down by Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) as soon as the upcoming Halo Wars title is complete. Microsoft execs said parts the team would continue to work with MGS. Halo Wars is scheduled for early 2009, and Eurogamer took a look at the Halo-styled RTS game last month.

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  1. Re:Pussy Nazi Sez by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pussy Nazi Sez

    No pussy for YOU!

    Ha, right, because it's sooooo easy to picture you anonymously trolling on Slashdot during orgy breaks.

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  2. parent post is a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Microsoft was just purging its useless-eaters.
    We have ways for making people like you disappear also.

  3. Halo Wars? by SplinterOfChaos · · Score: 4, Funny

    How could I not have heard of this? This has to be a joke. You can stick ANY genre on Halo and it'll probably sell?

    Halo Dating Sim! (You know you want to.)

    1. Re:Halo Wars? by sesshomaru · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, I just bought Marvel Trading Card Game for my DS.

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    2. Re:Halo Wars? by murr · · Score: 4, Funny

      The Halos
      Sailor Halo
      Need for Halo
      Super Halo Brothers

    3. Re:Halo Wars? by SplinterOfChaos · · Score: 4, Funny

      You forget Grand Theft Halo, the controversial halo stealing game.

    4. Re:Halo Wars? by Eponymous+Crowbar · · Score: 2, Funny

      If a Halo dating sim seems odd to you, have you seen Cortana or the Admiral's daughter?

    5. Re:Halo Wars? by SplinterOfChaos · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, it doesn't seem odd. I've even worked out a story: You get drugged by this "friend" of yours and are set up for an experiment that ends up changing your sex and you proceed to get raped a lot in the middle of a futuristic war zone. Cortana makes a guest appearance in the only tentacle rape scene, where a virus has infested her and she's controlling a machine with many, well, tentacles.

      Now, I just have to contact a Japanese developer/publisher.

  4. Halo Kart! by tepples · · Score: 3, Funny

    We could go on all day...

  5. Re:MS Killing Off Xbox? by xhrit · · Score: 3, Funny

    >Perhaps Microsoft has finally decided they need to stop wasting their time in the console market and will start to turn their attention back to making keyboards and mice.

    Fixed that for you.

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  6. Suggestion by David+Gerard · · Score: 2, Funny

    They need to make a game actually called Red Ring, to follow up their earlier hit Blue Screen.

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  7. Re:You're doing it wrong... by deniable · · Score: 2, Funny

    'a "fiscally-rooted" decision' has a different meaning in Oz.