Microsoft is building an Age of Empires studio.

[thetonestarr]

Ka-pi96 said:
But... why?

They already had an AoE studio and closed them down. They should have just kept them in the first place

For a while, Microsoft's gaming division was shifting to focus heavily on Xbox consoles and they were moving away from PC. At the same time, the Age of Empires brand had been in a lull. Given those two facts, it made sense at the time.

Now they're shifting their focus into multiplat and PC again, and interest in AoE has been growing again, so it somewhat makes sense, again, to reverse that decision.