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    Charles Tinney begins Age of Empires Online animation blogs
    Charles Tinney an animator at the late Ensemble Studios who worked on Halo Wars has recently started a blog about his awesome animation work with Age of Empires Online. Charles or “chazbot” Tinney has been taking care of most of the animation on AOE-O while the game was developed at Robot Entertainment. My initial role, [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: April 15, 2011, 10:22 pm
    Halo Wars beat MGS sales targets and could work on Kinect says Frank O’Connor
    Halo Wars has recently cropped up in conversation between Computer and Video Games and 343 Industries creative director Frank O’ Connor. Frank talks about Halo Wars as being ”a huge success” and rightly so as he also revealed that the Ensemble Studios developed game “beat our sales forecasts, so it was a bigger success than we [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: March 4, 2011, 11:39 pm
    343 Industries reverses decision to shut down Halo Wars stat tracking
    A few weeks after the shocking announcement that 343 were planning to completely shut down the Halo Wars community website, forums and stat tracking which resulted in fury from Halo Wars fans and press coverage it would appear that 343 Industries have hit the gear into reverse. Cocopjojo has today announced on the Official Halo Wars forums [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: December 9, 2010, 12:44 am
    End of the road for Halo Wars as Microsoft shuts down community website
    Earlier this week Cocopjojo of the Halo Wars community moderation team at 343 Industries announced that they plan to close the Halo Wars community website in its entirety as of December 15th 2010. No doubt this decision is part of Microsoft “exciting plans” for the community. The announcement reads as follows: In an effort to provide the Halo Wars [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: November 20, 2010, 2:33 pm
    Creative director Marcus Lehto of Bungie Studios thoughts on Halo Wars
    Picked up on a Computerandvideogames.com interview with Bungie’s creative director Marcus Lehto today which looks back at Bungie during the Halo years and the future of the studio going forward. The interview does touch on Halo Wars and the studios thoughts about Ensemble working on the title. - Looking back, were you happy with Microsoft’s [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: September 8, 2010, 11:18 pm
    Paul Bettner of NewToy says Ensemble demise due to company culture
    News is spreading around that Paul Bettner an ex Ensemble programmer has had a bit of a “rant” at the GDC explaining that Ensemble Studios should not of blamed Microsoft for the studios closure and should instead look at failings with the company culture at Ensemble Studios. In what has proven to be such a [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: March 14, 2010, 1:52 am
    Robot Entertainment confirm working on two projects
    One of the recent blogs on the Robot Entertainment website by community manager Duncan Stanley talks about Robot Entertainment one year on from its conception. You may remember it was this time last year Robot Entertainment said “Hello world“. Although there has been no announcements exactly what projects Robot has been working on, we have [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: March 12, 2010, 11:35 pm
    Halo Wars community unhappy with Waypoint migration
    Since Halo Waypoint’s take over of the Halo Wars community from March 1st there has been a large dissatisfaction with the new moderation team. The overall feel of the community can be summed up from this screenshot taken on the 9th March 2010. (click to enlarge) Notice how after 2.5 days the post still has [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: March 9, 2010, 10:59 pm
    343 Industries takes over Halo Wars Community support
      As of March 1st 2010 343 Industries’ Halo Waypoint team will take over support of both Halo Wars and the Halo Wars Community at HaloWars.com. Community Manager Jon Goff from 343 has made his introductions in the general discussion. Hey everyone,   As most of you know, Halo Wars and HaloWars.com are transitioning more closely [...]
    Author: Dean
    Posted: February 28, 2010, 7:30 pm
    (Quick update) 343 Industries takes over Halo Wars community
      *very* quick posting from me to let fans know that 343 Industries are now on site at HaloWars.com. New moderator Glyph has made his first introduction posting here: http://www.halowars.com/forums/thread/823883.aspx I’ll post more information soon with details. Meanwhile take a look and join in the discussion.  
    Author: Dean
    Posted: February 28, 2010, 3:04 am

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