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JEMC said:

-Adonis- said:

I'm in love with The Blood of Dawnwalker.

I may regret saying this but, in case you're not aware of it, there's work-in-progress photomode mod for the game.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Age of Empires Dev Has Half of Studio Slashed, Project Cancelled Amid Xbox Layoffs

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/09/age-of-empires-dev-has-half-of-studio-slashed-project-cancelled-amid-xbox-layoffs

"According to former employees, the dev has lost roughly half of its team, and now sits under the Activision umbrella. Its latest unannounced project, thought to be Age of Empires 5, has been cancelled."

While I agree with majority of the lay offs that MS has been dishing out, this one does sadden me. The "age of team" has done wonders to bring back classic games that I grew up with and as far as I could tell, the definitive editions weren't flops relative to their budget and expectations. Yea they weren't heavy hitters and sadly, that is likely why the team has been laid off. But man, there was something there for us RTS folks.

The biggest problem, as far as I see it, is that Age of Empires II is still the favorite and most played game in the franchise. So, why "wasting" money making new games when they can just make more DLCs for AoE2 with less people?

It's sad, but that's likely what MSoft saw.

In other news, have you all realized that, with this new round of layoffs, MSoft no longer has any game studio? Any studio that was under MSoft management has been relocated and now sits under Bethesda, Activision or King's umbrella.

It's for the best. Other than Forza and Age of Empires, the studios under them continuously made mid-bad games. If the rumours of the next xbox basically being a PC is true, then they might just be a contend on being a platform holder and giving up on games entirely.