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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. 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.

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

    We could go on all day...

  3. 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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