age of empires

Xbox Game Studios Microsoft and World’s Edge gave us our first glimpse of its upcoming remaster of real-time strategy game Age of Mythology: Retold during Friday’s New Year, New Age livestream. They also confirmed that it will launch on PC and Xbox later this year. Age of Mythology: Retold’s segment of the livestream began with Art Director Melinda Rose introducing the gameand  teasing that it will contain all-new 3D character models, animation, textures, and UI. Rose also highlighted the details of the character…

For a series coming up on three decades of history, I guess it only makes sense it expands into mobile with everything else. During today’s Age of Empires New Year, New Age Livestream, Microsoft unveiled Age of Empires Mobile which is coming to both iOS and Android https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzqFAS47M8s Developed by Level Infinite, Age of Empires Mobile brings the classic RTS genre to mobile devices for the first time ever. Featuring several different civilizations including China, Rome, France, and…

Xbox Game Studios is currently hosting a New Year, New Age live stream to celebrate everything Age of Empires and reveal updates about its future. However, it’s not all about Age of Empires. After being teased in 2022, Age of Mythology: Retold has been revealed. A definitive edition of the original classic RTS Age of Mythology, Retold will release on PC and Xbox Serise X|S later this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_I0fc3lrI A bit more mystical If you’ve never played the original Age of Mythology but are a…

Minecraft Legends launches today and provides a great jumping-on point for the real-time strategy game genre. Although RTS games can be quite intimidating to get into, after playing Minecraft Legends, you should have some familiarity with action-strategy RTS games that have the player command a group of minions, as well as more traditional titles in the genre centered around accruing resources to build up bases and take down your opponents. Now that you know those core ideas, you should have a much more…

Minecraft Legends is shaping up to be a much more impressive and ambitious title than I gave it credit for when it was announced. What I initially wrote off as an even-more simplified riff on Pikmin with a Minecraft skin is a much more involved real-time strategy experience with fully voice-acted cutscenes, a procedurally generated open-world to explore, and lots of base-building and resource gathering that truly adapts Minecraft’s formula into another storied genre. During a hands-off preview presentation of…

Nearly a decade ago, I took the most important decision of my gaming life. With my first salary, I went ahead and bought myself a console instead of investing in a brand-new PC. And I haven’t really looked back since. I got to play pretty much all the games I wanted to… save for one particular genre.I loved playing Real Time Strategy (RTS) games. I have spent countless hours playing Command and Conquer, Warcraft (before it became an MMORPG), Empire Earth, StarCraft and of course, Age of Empires. However, once I made the…