NEW Age of Empires on the way (KING of SRPG's RETURNS?)!! -- Rumor

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darthdevidem01 on 03 September 2009

New Age of Empires on the way?

Lee - Overlord

Sep 3, 2009 at 10:57

In 2008, Microsoft announced they were closing down Ensemble Studios following the completion of Halo Wars, which caused many to believe that the Age of Empires franchise would die with the studio. At the time, Microsoft denied it was the end of the series, telling The San Francisco Chronicle "we're very excited about the future potential for Age of Empires". Edge later confirmed, in an interview with Shane Kim, that Microsoft continued to own Age of Empires and that they had plans to continue the series.

Today we may see the first evidence of that. Last night Microsoft created a new folder on their press site titled Age of Empires, at 22:23.

Could this be the first indication of a new title in the Age of Empires series? With PAX and TGS just around the corner, we may not have to wait long to find out.

http://www.gmrfm.com/home/2009/9/3/new-age-of-empires-on-the-way.html

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PLEASE let this be true

PLEASE let this be true!

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Star Scream on 03 September 2009

One thing is for sure (unfortunately), Ensemble aren't working on it. :(

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cura on 03 September 2009

If it is true, I'm curious as to whether it will be a 360 or pc game (probably 360), and whether it will incorporate natal.

Anyway, Age of Empires died with ES. Can't say I'm terribly excited over the prospect of another AoE game. Not sure what the point of it is really?

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JOhnyBravoos on 03 September 2009

Please be on the PC, don't let the 360 kill the series with a blow.

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Kynes on 03 September 2009

Age of Empires SRPG???

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JOhnyBravoos on 03 September 2009

It better be an RTS like the previous ones!

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Asmo on 03 September 2009

Kynes said:
Age of Empires SRPG???

This

Since when AoE is an SRPG?

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nojustno on 03 September 2009

Hope it's better than 3

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Scoobes on 03 September 2009

I'm both wary and excited at the sametime. Firstly, it needs to be on the PC and preferably exclusive so us PC gamers don't get held back by the 360 contraints. Secondly, who's developing it?! They don't have a 1st party RTS studio anymore and I believe Robot Studios is already working on something else (one of the developers the arose from the ashes of Ensemble). They better not give this over to some developer that has no experience with RTS games.