Halo Wars, sadly the final game from Ensemble Studios, creators of the seminal Age of Empires franchise, will be released on Xbox 360 on March 3, 2009, according to Microsoft.
North America will be the last region to get the game, surprisingly, with the Europeans to be the first February 27. Gamers in Japan/Asia Pacific [...]

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While video games have slowly made a climb from the simple pixellated games like Space Invaders and Super Mario Bros. to breathtakingly real-looking games with picturesque landscapes and fluid animations, the quality of the music quickly outstripped the achievements of the visuals. Even titles like Final Fantasy VI (# 3 in the USA) are remembered [...]

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Are you one of those people who needs to have absolutely every peice of Halo merchandise on the market? Well you better add another item to your list as it was recently made known that Sumthing Else’s 5-disc Halo soundtrack will hit store shelves tomorrow.
Included in the bundle are the original soundtracks from Halo: Combat [...]

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A very well done CG trailer for Ensemble Studios’, or the former Ensemble Studios rather, Halo Wars has made its way onto the internet. The trailer is basically the back story for Halo Wars. Without giving a way too much, the humans are investigation a bunch of Covenant which are digging something out of some [...]

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Microsoft has recently issued a press release marking the end of the beloved Ensemble Studios, makers of such games as the Age of Empires franchise and of course, Halo Wars.
Fret not though as they also let us know that the core of the now dead studio will move on to form anew with continued support [...]

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