New Halo Wars info/footage Friday night

[twesterm]

matt247 said:

twesterm said:

TRios_Zen said:
@twestern, I think I understand what you are trying to say here, but Ensemble has not been shut down, YET.

They WILL be shutdown, at the completion of Halo Wars, but they are not in effect "...not spending any more money on this.". (here's a link: http://www.ensemblestudios.com/blogs/bshelley/archive/2008/09/22/ensemble-studios-closing.aspx). That may not help your misgivings any, but just thought I'd throw it out there.

 

They aren't technically shut down, but really, they more or less are.  They fired all but the essential personal (and the mass firings included most of the Halo Wars team).  Those people they let stick around were given incentives to stay, but most of them aren't bothering and are looking for jobs.  So yeah, they're pretty much closed.

 

halo wars team has not been fired
from the website:"Halo Wars All Hands: In August we shut down work on everything non-Halo Wars related and now the entire studio is focused on finishing this game by the end of this year. Everyone in the studio has a job until Halo Wars is finished. There have been no layoffs and none are expected. We have received fantastic feedback on the game at a variety of game shows and events, and want to deliver on the promises we have made as our last hurrah. We want a great Halo Wars game to be the final tribute to everything that ES has come to mean to us and perhaps you as well, over the past 13 years."

 

You're right, the people I know that were working on that game are only pretending to be out of a job.