Empires

For the Druchii! Sega and Creative Assembly have announced that one of the most lavishly massive campaigns for any strategy game is finally exiting the beta stage for Total War: Warhammer III. Immortal Empires merges the worlds of all three Total War: Warhammer games into one giant map, complete with every faction released across the series. February 17th marks a full year since the launch of Total War: Warhammer III. During that time, the team has been plucking away at the Immortal Empires mode within it, providing it…

Creative Assembly has announced that the Immortal Empires mode in Total War: Warhammer 3 is leaving beta and will be available to all players, even those who do not own the rest of the trilogy. Immortal Empires – which fuses all three campaign maps from the Total War: Warhammer trilogy – previously required the ownership of all three games to play. As of tomorrow (February 17), that will no longer be the case and only Warhammer 3 will be required to play Immortal Empires. “Since the launch of Immortal Empires last…

Age of Empires II is extremely special to me. The game came to me by accident at 16, and it has remained a great gaming love of mine ever since. I played Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on Xbox to see if, after all these years, I could rekindle my fondness for this PC game on console, and it feels like love at first wololo all over again.It is a daunting prospect to play a complex real-time strategy game like Age of Empires without the finely tuned control of a keyboard. There are maps and submenus to click through…

What you need to knowAge of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is coming to Xbox consoles and Xbox Game Pass on January 31, 2023. This is a classic game remastered for modern enjoyment. The historical campaign boasts over 200 hours of playtime or you can engage in online co-op or competitive multiplayer. Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition already came to PC back in 2021, however, it's just now coming to Xbox consoles and Xbox Game Pass this year. According to a tweet from the Xbox Twitter account, this remastered classic…

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Creative Assembly has released update 2.3.0 for Total War: Warhammer 3, which closes out 2022 with a “large number” of returning campaign landmarks and changes to the game’s AI. Update 2.3.0 is available to download today (November 22), and the patch notes detailing the latest changes have been published by Creative Assembly. As one of the patch’s bigger changes, a “large number of landmarks” and 10-slot settlements from the Mortal Empires and Realms of Chaos campaigns have been added to Immortal Empires. Additionally,…

Apex Legends Mobile Season 3: Champions is in full swing, with a jam-packed event schedule full of opportunities for players to earn free loot. One of those events is Empire's Treasure, a unique event that takes the randomized loot box mechanic often seen in store events and blends it with the standard, non-store-event format.Empire's Treasure gives players the opportunity to earn eight random prizes by purchasing Draw Tickets. But instead of spending real-life cash to purchase Draw Tickets, Empire's…

If you are an OG PC gamer, then you’ve definitely heard of Age of Empires. While this game mainly stayed on the PC platform, it looks like it’s going to be expanding over the next several months. This includes an Age of Empires mobile title that’s slated to come soon.This is a pretty big moment for the franchise, as it just reached the ripe old age of 25. If you’re unfamiliar with this game, then here’s a little refresher. The original Age of Empires came out in 1997. It’s a simulation game where you build up an empire.…

Age of Empires is finally headed to (Xbox) consoles. Microsoft confirmed during the franchise's 25-anniversary broadcast, held late Tuesday, that Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition will launch across Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, and Xbox Cloud Gaming, on January 31, 2023. Meanwhile, the 2021-released Age of Empires 4 is slated to follow behind sometime next year. Naturally, both titles will be available on the Xbox Game Pass subscription service. This is a big change for the real-time strategy franchise, given that AoE…

As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations for the Age of Empires series, Microsoft announced that Age of Empire II: Definitive Edition and Age of Empires IV will be headed to Xbox consoles. These real-time strategy games will be available through Game Pass for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, and will also arrive on Xbox Cloud Gaming.Strategy games can be notoriously challenging to get right on consoles, due to their design favoring mouse and keyboard setups. While some RTS games--see Frostpunk and Halo…