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An ex-Ensemble staffer has told IncGamers that the studio’s canned Halo MMO was very much meant for the big time.

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Rock Paper Shotgun has listed the new studios formed by now-defunct Ensemble Studios on one pretty page.

It’s a good thing, because we know most people are prone to ADHD, and lists help keep your brain cells organized.

Without further ado, here’s the breakdown:

Robot Entertainment: Started by Ensemble co-founder Tony Goodman in Texas with 45 other Ensemble employees hired on as staff. Currently at work on additional content for Halo Wars, online support for Age of Empires and Halo Wars, and original IP.

Bonfire Studios: Formed by David Rippy and employs 35 staffers. Currently at work on an original, super-secret IP. Promises to have a “strong strategy element” to it.

Windstorm Studios: Dusty Monk wants to bring new life into online gaming. Says new MMO will have brighter colors, cities of glass and steel, and flying cars.

Hope that’s all straightened out.

A former Ensemble Studios developer, the phenomenally-named Dusty Monk, has founded a new developer called Windstorm Studios.

The start-up is working on an online game “unlike anything you’ve ever seen,” according to Windstorm’s site.

Windstorm’s games are to be brighter and more hopeful than traditional post-apocalyptic offerings of the minute, Monk said.

Fingers crossed.

Thanks, IGN.