damn i want to play a new AoE so bad.. *sniff*

Man that sucks. I'm a big fan of the Age of Empires series and am pulling for Halo Wars more than ever so MS can realize then continue to deny the err of their ways.

"According to Shelley, “at least two new studios” will be formed by former employees, one of which will handle their online presence, and one to handle post-launch support for Halo Wars."

Sounds like we will be seeing at least 2 new studios.

They are kinda lucky the guys who made Halo had the money to buy themselves off, otherwise they woulda completly destroyed there games division (Halo is basically wat runs the 360).

Some very bad moves by M$, but its not that suprising, the only thing they are good at is buying stuff, but never knowing what to do with it afterwards...

Even if fanboys dont like it that damn true...!!!

sony does have an amasing number of studios under them .. hey get these ones and i bet they can make a game bettear than halo war cus after all they did make halo wars ...

I didn't say it to be a fanboy or rub Xbox fans face in it. Its just a fact.

While M$ is throwing money everywhere buying exclusives or even more feeble, exclusive DLC (man thats so weak, this is what they've sunk to), their family they should be looking after is suffering. Studios are all just closing or leaving. Buying games is such short term vision. Looking after your studios is a long term investment.

Its almost like they're not going to make an XB3. I dont believe that, but what are we supposed to think when they dont care about 1st parties, and 1st parties usually make the best games, except on rare occassions like MGS. What will they have left for next gen? Are they just going to buy every game?

I suppose you could argue the best games on 360 haven't been 1st party but 3rd party. Thats true, but its likely cos they havent encouraged studios enough from the beginning. Seriously, if Gears is your best game, thats just not good enough in my book. So overatted. They should have made something better themselves by now.

A software company with no software developers.

Factor 5 says hi.

Agreed

i agree one of my fav pc games ..

what ever they fuking got money to pay for stupid dlc that people dont want and they didnt have money to keep a nice stupid with good devs open BULLLLL!!!!

....I don't feel like you read the article, at all.

it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.