▲ 53 ▼ Age of Empires studio World's Edge reportedly lose nearly half their staff and a new game project in mass Xbox layoffs (www.rockpapershotgun.com) submitted 3 days ago by mrmaplebar@fedia.io to c/strategy@lemmy.world 4 comments fedilink hide all child comments Crossposted from https://fedia.io/m/rts/t/4397419 "Just under half" of Age of Empires studio World’s Edge have reportedly been laid off, and their next project cancelled, as part of Xbox’s mass redundancies.
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children) Cool, good to know that any new games won't be worth my time permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io [S] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child) I hope you're wrong but it definitely is not looking good. The remakes are decent, but the franchise never really recovered from the closure of the original developer, Ensemble Studios, by Microsoft in the mid 2000s. Luckily the AoE2 community (and to a lesser extent the AoM community) is still going strong today. AoE2 has had something of a resurgence in the last few years, even. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 days ago Aoe4 > Aoe2. Fight me. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io [S] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child) I hope you're wrong but it definitely is not looking good. The remakes are decent, but the franchise never really recovered from the closure of the original developer, Ensemble Studios, by Microsoft in the mid 2000s. Luckily the AoE2 community (and to a lesser extent the AoM community) is still going strong today. AoE2 has had something of a resurgence in the last few years, even. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 days ago Aoe4 > Aoe2. Fight me. permalink fedilink source parent