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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:MS Killing Off Xbox? by InsaneGeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This of course would be the reason why often when looking at game available on both platforms the Xbox native game resolution is higher than the PS3... if the Xbox 360 can handle a higher resolution, what does that tell me about the PS3 and how they could have (in your words) "graphics hardware so weak" they can't even keep up with the Xbox?

    i.e. pretty much biggest cross platform game released recently: GTA4 native res: Xbox 360=720p, PS3=630P