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Microsoft Studios Announce Age Of Empires: Definitive Edition Coming Later This Year News

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of this legendary series, Microsoft Studios have announced Age of Empires: Definitive Edition at the PC Gaming Show 2017 in Los Angeles. So what is Age of Empires: Definitive Edition? Well, it’s a remastered version of the first game. The visuals, soundtrack, multiplayer and just about every facet of the game has been updated to make it the definitive version of the game. The visuals maintain their classic look with a slight twist. Each sprite, every animation and each tile set has been recreated to make it look ‘better’. We understand this is purely subjective and, well, I think the game looked pretty good beforehand. Regardless, the new visuals have been designed with 4K displays in mind, and what better to go with these fancy new graphics other than some new zoom levels. Yes, Microsoft Studios have allowed players to zoom further in and out, allowing you to conquer each part of the map with ease.

The African Kingdoms expansion coming to Age of Empires II HD Edition on November 5, teaser trailer released News

Forgotten Empires has revealed their upcoming expansion to Age of Empires II HD, called The African Kingdoms, which will feature new civilizations including the Malians, Berbers, Ethiopians, and Portuguese. The expansion will also feature revamped water combat for better battles at sea. The African Kingdoms DLC will be launched on digital distribution on 5 November 2015.

Microsoft Studios lays out 2015 development road map for Age of Empires 2: HD, confirms a brand new expansion is on the way News

Today marks the two year anniversary of Age of Empires 2: HD's release on Steam, but if you thought that the team responsible for the upgraded version of Ensemble's classic strategy game would leave it at that, you'd be wrong. A new patch dropped yesterday, and publisher Microsoft Studios has outlined its plans for the rest of 2015, including improvements to the Steam workshop, a reworked lobby system, and a whole new expansion.

Microsoft posts job advert for a developer role on "beloved strategy game franchise" News

A job advert popped up on the Microsoft Careers website recently, searching for a senior software engineer to work at Decisive Games on "the next installment in a beloved strategy game franchise". Considering Microsoft don't own the rights to too many strategy series that you'd call "beloved", the only one that springs immediately to mind is classic RTS Age of Empires. Might that be what Decisive is working on?