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title: "Ensemble Studios: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Ensemble Studios was an American video game developer. Ensemble developed many real-time strategy games, including the Age of Empires game series, Age of Mythology, and Halo Wars."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ensemble-studios
type: Organization
wikidata: Q308913
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Studios
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Ensemble Studios

> Ensemble Studios was an American video game developer. Ensemble developed many real-time strategy games, including the Age of Empires game series, Age of Mythology, and Halo Wars.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1995-01-01
- Dissolved: 2009-01-01
- Headquarters: Dallas
- Status: closed
- Industries: video game industry

## Key people

- Rick Goodman, founder (video game developer)
- Tony Goodman, founder (American video game executive and entrepreneur)
- Sandy Petersen (American game designer (born 1955))
- Stephen Rippy (American composer)

## Ownership

Parent: [Microsoft](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-microsoft.md)

## Products

- Age of Empires

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Ensemble Studios, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ensemble-studios#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q308913, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Studios

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