Halo Wars includes final farewell from Ensemble Studios

by Dustin Burg { Mar 3rd 2009 at 1:29PM }

With today's (North American) release of Halo Wars, we thought we'd share Ensemble Studios' heartfelt goodbye message included in the game's end credits. The video, which shares the same sentimental weight as Bruce Shelley's final remarks, starts with a message to all of Ensemble's fans and is followed by individual notes from everyone on the development team.

We wish the best of luck to everyone who was a part of the team at Ensemble Studios and hope success follows with their new ventures.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/03/halo-wars-includes-final-farewell-from-ensemble-studios/

Back in the 90's Blizzard, Ensemble and westwood were the three best RTS developers. It's sad that now only Blizzard remains since RTS is my favorite genre.

I dont mind that Microsoft shut the company down, but instead Microsoft should just make the company a new division called Microsoft Game Studios Ensemble and have them make RTS games for 360/PC.

Nice...but it's not really farewell...just a brief hiatus...since are wither employed by MGS or the new companies Robot and Bonfire...so it's like retirement from somewhere, and coming back as a consultant...lol.

Goodbye Ensemble. AOEII was amazing. AOM was great. AOEIII was good. Here's hoping the employees in bonfire studios are able to make something great again...say.... a medieval themed rts. AOEII on steroids!

its too bad M$ closed Ensemble to us RTS fans they wil always be near and dear to our hearts. Good bye Ensemble and im glad your last project wasnt a dud and you can hang your heads high

Goodbye Ensemble...well not really. We now have the two children of Ensemble, Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios.

^^^ Working on 360 games.?!?..lol...the ensemble closing was about business, and nothing personal, imho.

Hopefully after grad and some tours.  I am a comp sci student and this info is readily available on wiki and http://www.ensemblestudios.com/home.aspx

*sniff*

You BASTARDS, Microsoft! How could you close down the people who made Age of Mythology?