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Now that Ensemble Studios (Age of Empires) has been announced closed by Microsoft, Gamasutra has unearthed information about what Ensemble was working on before it was canceled: and yes, it was a Halo MMORPG.

BoingBoing writes: “In a complaint filed in California’s U.S. District Court, writer Jonathan Bissoon-Dath and artist Jennifer Barrette-Herzon claim that Sony’s God of War swipes work from screenplays, synopses and a map submitted to the company in 2002.
The legal issue will be decided by deep pockets and, conceivably, a jury. The moral issue is simpler [...]

Check out this awesome blog post from Mythic’s Mark Jacobs regarding his company’s stand against early gold sellers in Warhammer Online:

Since WAR launched we have been banning these jerks like crazy. As of Saturday Night, we had banned about 400 of them. My CSRs have a zero tolerance policy. We don’t wait and let them [...]

Maike Evers, a half-Filipino, half German/Australian model who is the current cover girl of UNO magazine, talks about her passion for chocolates, who gets her vote as the US president, why she is into drums and what she would do if she were a First Lady. Confused? Well I’ll let her pictures do the talking [...]

Japanese voice actress Nozomi Sasaki on the beach. Nozomi Sasaki is also Japanese fashion model and gravure idol from Akita prefecture. Nozomi-chan started as a teen model when she won two modeling competitions Young Jump’s GYARUKON Grand Prix 2005 and Princess Pinky Grand Prix 2006.
Bigger Nozomi Sasaki Pics after the jump.