Robot Entertainment

Robot Entertainment is a video game developer established in 2009 based in Plano, Texas in the United States.
It was formed by ex-Ensemble employees, including former CEO Tony Goodman, and consists of 45 former Ensemble Studios employees, after the closure of Ensemble by Microsoft in September 2008.Blend Games: Ensemble Studios Vets Form Robot Entertainment They are responsible for the maintaining of Halo Wars, as well as the creation of new content.
As of February 28, 2010, Halo Wars and HaloWars.com support operations were transferred from Robot Entertainment to Halo Waypoint.Halo Wars en route to Waypoint
Their first game, released in 2011, was a collaboration with Microsoft entitled Age of Empires Online, a free-to-play Games for Windows Live game, and a continuation of Ensemble Studios's Age of Empires series.Microsoft Heralds a New Age of Gaming With “Age of Empires Online” It was announced on February 24, 2011, that Gas Powered Games had taken over development from Robot Entertainment.
Robot Entertainment released Orcs Must Die, a third-person tower defense game where the player uses an assortment of weapons and traps to prevent orcs from reaching a rift, on October 12, 2011, for PC and Xbox Live Arcade. Two DLC were subsequently released. Orcs Must Die 2 was released on July 30, 2012, exclusively for PC, which added cooperative play, endless mode, trinkets and a new upgrade system to the mix as well as new traps, weapons, and maps. As of April 2013, three DLC has been released, adding new traps, weapons, trinkets, and maps.
Hero Academy, a turn-based strategy game where the player, through five moves a turn, aims to destroy their opponent's crystals or defeat all of their units, was released on January 11, 2012, on iOS, and later on Mac and PC. As of April 2013, 6 factions are included in the game.
Name 	Release Date 	Genre
Age of Empires Online	2011 	RTS (real-time strategy)
Orcs Must Die! 	October 12, 2011	Tower Defense / Third Person Action
Hero Academy 	January 11, 2012	Turn-based strategy
Orcs Must Die! 2	July 30, 2012 	Tower Defense / Third Person Action
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