It's in beta now. I've played a bit and it does retain the AoE gameplay but with quests (basically campaign and scenario mode) and a fully customisable home city from which you can do PvP and unlock upgrades. It'll be free to play too via Games for Windows Live client (the only slight downside I've found so far, lol).

That would be kinda neat.

Wouldn't this be a problem with Kincects very limited controls already? I, and others hardly being able to navigate menus... When it is a breath of fresh air to turn off Kinect controls and go back to the controller, that says something. When I get that controller back in my hands, feeling "in total" control again, that kinda something about the motion controls. Are we using Kinect because IT IS the better option, or are we using Kincet because we WANT IT to be the better option? I've been sticking with a controller, and my mouse and keyboard on PC. I don't see that changing anytime soon. 

Hell if they could bring this game and Halo Wars 2 for Kinect then I would be sold.

200ms of lag at least on a game like this...

It guess it depends on how simple you want to make it. Halo wars was already simplified alot to fit on the limited buttons of a controller. Assigning keys to positions on the map and to different squads is kind of essential if you want to attack efficiently from 3 different sides while maintaining and defending your base. And kinect is definitely not precise enough to click on positions on the mini map.

Ruse with move and the navigation controller did not convince me either. Mouse and keyboard for rts and mmorpg.

i want age 4!!!

they aleady got to the modern age or near enough, they cant go to advanced. I want them to HD-erise age 1 though

While finger tracking will be great for some games. RTS it would not be. There is no way for it to know which unit or units you are pointing at exactly. I guess maybe groups might work.. but if you have a group of 40 units together bunched and you want to select 1 it will not work. Also drawing waypoints will not work well at all. Also, menus wont work unless you want to constantly say open this or that constantly which most RTS's need. Menu systems would need to be completely reworked into (ugly?) big buttons on the side or top of the screen.

The main issue is that there isn't one size of TV and even if they are the same size, resolution can be different. Whether its 480, 720, 768 (some tvs do this), or 1080, and all the other various tv resolutions around the world. Unless your TV is the exact size of the wall behind you, it will not work. RTS's need extreme accuracy, more than even shooters.

It would most likely work if you have another Kinect behind you that measures your TVs size and improve pointing accuracy though.

Finger movement tracking all that would be amazing for RPGs. Adds a new level of interactive casting. A Naruto game would be such a pain in the ass, lol.

better on kinect? bold claim and I highly doubt it, at least when compared to keyboard/mouse.

Though I can definitely see it being better than the 360 control pad.