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  Ensemble Veterans Form Robot Entertainment
by Leigh Alexander
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February 13, 2009
 
Ensemble Veterans Form Robot Entertainment
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Ensemble Studios co-founder Tony Goodman and a number of veterans from the Age of Empires developer have formed a new studio called Robot Entertainment, Gamasutra has learned.

Details on the studio's current projects are unavailable, and it's unclear whether Robot Entertainment will maintain a focus on the PC realtime strategy genre in which the Ensemble team specialized, or try new arenas.

Microsoft closed Ensemble down once impending Xbox 360 RTS Halo Wars had completed development, in what it called a "a fiscally-rooted decision that keeps [Microsoft Game Studios]on its growth path."

Dallas-based Ensemble was founded in 1995 and known mainly for the Age of Empires series of PC-themed strategy titles. Microsoft acquired the studio in 2001.
 
   
 
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rob miller
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I wonder if Wall-E has applied there yet

mr jasler
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what is with the name? there is another company called atomic robot. How many robot companies are there going to be?

Tommy Hanusa
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well atleast this sounds technology based unlike Valve which sounds like they can fix your plumbing (I will conceed that pipelines are invoved in software development, and that the internet is a serise of tubes)

...and then there is Raven which sounds like metal gear referance, ID which makes games but not mind games, Bungie, which isn't even a noun (like an ad-noun or some thing), Dice which deals with games but they don't make RPGs, and Bioware which sounds like a biotech company... the list goes on.

there are only two possible conclusions:

the facination with absudism is probably just a product of the highly structural and logical nature of software development and therefore becomes an attractive anti-theses that is pursed because of how it is an opposite with the realities and the rigors of work. thus the developers find balance by having both absudism and logic in the same place.

or mey-b teh internets hav eated teh develoopers bwains nom nom nom

(my vote is for the second one...)

Mike Shiratti
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Yes!

I loved ensemble, and was awaiting this announcement, no-matter the name (which I don't like nor dislike) I know this company will continue to produce excellent games.

Heres to Robot Entertainment™, I'll be keeping a close eye on these folks.

Rocket Man
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I just hope they maintain their own IPs and don't sell them (or themselves!) to Microsoft. One broken heart is enough.

Joseph Gracey
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"or mey-b teh internets hav eated teh develoopers bwains nom nom nom"

LOL :D

Haig James Toutikian
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Sweet! All the best to Robot! Here's to many great games!


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