Ensemble Studios

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(thing) by N-Wing (2.3 hr) (print) ? (I like it!) Sun Nov 14 1999 at 8:58:24

ES has produced popular games like Age of Empires and Age of Kings.

Unfortunately, AoE only runs on Macs or Windows 9x, and AoK only runs on Windows 9x.

ES has several famous employees, such as Sandy Petersen and Bruce Shelley.

(thing) by Cargo (8.2 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Jan 17 2003 at 19:59:43

Ensemble Studios, located in Dallas, Texas, are a game studio founded by a number of people from Ensemble Corp., a database support company. Working insane hours and putting their hearts into it, they finally shipped Age of Empires, which was published by Microsoft.

After Age of Empires and it's well-recieved Rise of Rome Expansion Pack, they proceeded to create Age of Empires II, known as Age of Kings and its associated X-pack, The Conquerors. To this day (17 January 2003), Age II sells well, and if one were to combine weekly sales of Age II and Age II Gold Edition, was outselling Warcraft III in months as recent as November and December 2002 some weeks.

Ensemble was purchased by Microsoft between these games.

The most recent project to come out of Ensemble Studios was Age of Mythology, which was completed in October of 2002 after years of development. After hitting the shelves on the 31st of October-1st of November in the US, sales shot up and the game spent some weeks at number 1 on the weekly sales. There is an impressive fan base internationally for this game, and several games involving Ensemble tester Gx_Iron were shown in Korea on television in late 2002.

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Age of Mythology	LucasArts	Age of Empires	Paul Jaquays
ESO	Battle.net	Microsoft	Rise of Rome
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