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On Site Review: Age of Empires: Mythologies

January 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Consoles, Ensemble, THQ

THQ’s adaptation of the classic Ensemble RTS Age of Mythology to the DS is a bit of a surprise for me. AoM is one of my favorite games for a number of reasons, mostly related to the silly spectacle of the thing. It also manages a number of interesting choices in faction design without getting […]

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Pottinger on Halo MMO and Halo Wars

November 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Consoles, Ensemble, Industry, RTS

Shacknews has uploaded part one of two part interview with Ensemble Studios about Halo Wars. Today’s portion is Dave Pottinger talking about where things are at. The headline opens with Age of Empires Dev Ensemble Speaks Out on Studio Closure which is true only in the most narrow and literal way. Pottinger says nothing that […]

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Mark Noseworthy Points Out the Obvious

August 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Consoles, Design, RTS

PC real time strategy games don’t work so well when ported to console platforms. So don’t expect to see Company of Heroes on your 360 any time soon. But Dawn of War II isn’t a traditional RTS, so it might work.

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Stormrise Coming to PC

August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Consoles, RTS

Creative Assembly’s console RTS Stormrise will eventually make it to the PC. I saw the game at E3 and wasn’t really impressed. The controls looked fine, but the demo was so staged – an assault on a seemingly immobile defensive army – that I got a poor feel for how it worked in real time. […]

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Ensemble and Console RTS

July 8th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Consoles, Ensemble, RTS

I need to check my blogroll more often since I missed this post from Bruce Shelley about many things. Most importantly, it says a few things about how their RTS Halo Wars will be controlled on the console. I may have mentioned many blogs ago that we reprogrammed Age of Mythology to be playable with […]

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“The economics are ugly”

February 20th, 2008 · 23 Comments · Consoles, Design, Gas Powered Games, RTS

In an interview with IGN, Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games makes it clear that he is not optimistic about the future of the PC as a gaming platform, even for such dyed-in-the-wool PC genres like real time strategy. It’s just a good business decision to have your game of any kind on a console […]

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