Building a Community: Common Goals Creating a community from scratch is a hard task and it is even harder if you do not share a goal. There are plenty of very human reasons that prevent a group from acting as a community. Selfishness, irrational fears, Read More...

Community Bannings We had our largest set of banning ever last week with close to 300 accounts banned in one day. Most of the account we banned where due to account theft and identity theft, which is why you should never share personal information about Read More...

The Next Age of Empires 3 Patch Patch 1.01a has proven to be one of our most popular patches ever. Mostly due to the large variety of balance changes that boost most of the civilizations. We have had a few players ask if we will do a new patch for Age Read More...

Welcome to this small corner of the intertubes. Here I will try to give you an inside look into the goings on here at the Ensemble Studios Live Team. Hopefully you will be able to get inside our heads a little bit and gaze into the twisted maze that we Read More...