shacknews.com - 11/17/2008
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It's the developer behind Age of Empires, one of the most successful videogame franchises of all time. It's a financial success, with its flagship franchise recording sales of over 20 million copies. The company's latest title, Halo Wars, is a console RTS based on the hugely popular shooter ...
Confirmed: Ensemble Studios To Close After Halo Wars Completion
gamasutra.com 9/23/2008 — divider September 9, 2008 Confirmed: Ensemble Studios To Close After Halo Wars Completion Confirmed: Ensemble Studios To Close After Halo Wars Completion Microsoft plans to shut down subsidiary developer Ensemble Studios after the release of its ...
MMOs on Consoles: Epic Fail
xbox360.ign.com 2/4/2009 — February 3, 2009 - When Microsoft announced in 2006 that it had teamed up with Marvel to create a massively-multiplayer online game for the Xbox 360 based on the publisher's comic book universe, it seemed like a match made in nerd heaven. Finally, a ...
Ensemble Studios Hiring for MMO: News from 1UP.com
1up.com 9/23/2008 — Job listings pages for game developers have become newsworthy. Ensemble Studios , makers of Age of Empires III (and its two predecessors) is apparently hiring for an MMO. The site's mainpage displays a list of jobs that include: World Designer, XBox ...
Microsoft Office 2010 To Include Free Online Web Versions
zath.co.uk 7/13/2009 — Microsoft have recently upped their game against Google with the release of the Bing search engine , it would now that they intend to start competing more strongly against Google Docs with their next office suite, Microsoft Office 2010.
The next version of Microsoft Office 2010 , which ...
Hulu and YouTube
hallower1980.blogspot.com 12/22/2008 — You might have already read by now that Microsoft is at least considering integration of web services like Hulu and YouTube into Xbox Live. I see this as a big deal.
HULU
First, Hulu has a different business model than Netflix. Users can view content (TV and films) at no charge, the shows ...
Weekly Ulduar Patch (Patch 3.1) Roundup
brigwyn.com 2/27/2009 —
WARNING!! Today’s Round-up is EXTREMELY Long.
Your probably bombarded everyday with what’s going on with the 3.1 patch. As I follow the MMO Champion , WoW Insider posts, as well as the Official Forums , the Lodge Forums , with what’s happening on Twitter and the ...
Retro Imperialism
tagn.wordpress.com 6/1/2009 — After getting StarCraft out the other week and giving it a run , Potshot and I started discussing one of our more favored RTS games, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings .
Not to diminish StarCraft, which is an incredibly polished and well balanced game, but to me there was always a greater ...
Exclusive: Ensemble Studios' Canceled Project Was Halo MMO
gamasutra.com 9/23/2008 — Following the recent announcement that Microsoft-owned Age Of Empires creator Ensemble Studios would close after the completion of Halo Wars , Gamasutra has discovered that a now-canceled Halo MMO was in development at the studio, unearthing prototype ...
When The Windows Blows: A Post-Apocalyptic Commentary On Vista - Part 2
zath.co.uk 10/10/2008 — You live in a Petri Dish and you suck.
Microsoft have always treated their customers like lab rats. If the NHS were run by Microsoft, we wouldn’t be looking to NICE to test drugs. Microsoft would release every drug on to the market and then release minor drugs later on to help combat the ...
Felicia Day on 'The Guild' deal with Microsoft
latimesblogs.latimes.com 12/18/2008 — Many might recognize Felicia Day from a recent Cheetos commercial, in which she throws a handful of the orange snack into someone else's dryer at the laundromat. But for a dedicated niche, she is the much-loved writer, producer and costar...
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