NEW Age of Empires on the way (KING of SRPG's RETURNS?)!! -- Rumor

[Scoobes]

JaggedSac said:

Scoobes said:
I'm both wary and excited at the sametime. Firstly, it needs to be on the PC and preferably exclusive so us PC gamers don't get held back by the 360 contraints. Secondly, who's developing it?! They don't have a 1st party RTS studio anymore and I believe Robot Studios is already working on something else (one of the developers the arose from the ashes of Ensemble). They better not give this over to some developer that has no experience with RTS games.

There were 2 studios that arose from the ashes.  One of them is definitely handling this, if it is true.

I just looked up Ensembles wiki page and according to that:

"In February 2009 former Ensemble Studios head Tony Goodman started a new independent studio, Robot Entertainment, and a number of the existing employees have been offered a position in this company.^[14] Following the announcement of Robot Entertainment, former Ensemble Studios producer David Rippy started a new independent studio, Bonfire Studios, comprised entirely of former Ensemble staff members.^[15] In March 2009, a third studio, Windstorm Studios was announced, founded by ex-staffer Dusty Monk.^[16] In May 2009, a fourth studio called Newtoy was created by several developers from Ensemble. Newtoy is already working on its first game for the iPhone.^"

There are 4 of them! Sounds like Robot could be covering Age of Empires as the wiki page states they're resposible for keeping both Halo Wars and Age of Empire updated. Alternatively, Bonfire is believed to have started work on an unnamed project. I have my finger crossed.