Microsoft will shut down Ensemble studios early next year after Halo Wars has been shipped. Microsoft confirmed this news last night after speculation had risen earlier yesterday.
Inevitably there will be lay-offs, but Microsoft also said "the Ensemble leadership team will form a new studio and has agreed to provide ongoing support for Halo Wars as well as work on other projects with Microsoft Game Studios".
Furthermore, "Microsoft is working to place as many Ensemble employees who do not move to the newly formed studio into open positions within Microsoft as possible."
Ensemble Studios, founded in the mid-'90s, is best known for its PC real-time strategy series Age of Empires, and was bought up by Microsoft in 2001.
Source: Eurogamer
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