I miss age of empires. :-/

[Scoobes]

loves2splooge said:
Apparently Ensemble Studios folded and then the employees split into two different companies. Why? Ensemble was a very important studio for Microsoft (Age of Empires is one of their more important PC game IPs and they developed Halo Wars).

Hopefully one of the two remaining companies works on Age of Empires games in the future.

Microsoft disbanded Ensemble along with most of their first-party PC centric studios to concentrate on second-party and 360 development. Was a real shame with the amount of success Age of Empires had too. The staff went on to form a number of new dev studios:

Robot Entertainment

Bonfire Studios

Windstorm Studios

Newtoy Inc.

I believe Robot is responsible for maintaining and supporting Halo Wars so they'd most likely be the ones to continue Age of Empires if Microsoft desires it.