Newsbrief: Tony Goodman, former CEO and co-founder of
Age of Empires maker Ensemble Studios, has opened a new Dallas-based developer dedicated to making games for mobile devices and other emerging platforms.
The new company, PeopleFun, is made up of other veterans from Ensemble, such as the defunct studio's former lead programmer Angelo Laudon and co-founder John Boog-Scott. They've worked on PeopleFun's first title, which is about to hit beta, since late 2011.
Goodman describes PeopleFun's first project is as a departure, in terms of scope and genre, from the kind of games he made at Ensemble and
Orcs Must Die developer Robot entertainment (another company he founded in Texas three years ago). Ensemble was best known for making real-time strategy titles like
Age of Empires and
Halo Wars.
