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Tuesday 17 October 2017

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition pushed back to 2018

Source: www.kitguru.net --- Monday, October 16, 2017
At GamesCom this year, Microsoft announced that it would be reviving the Age of Empires series exclusively for PC. This was set to kick off later this year with Age of Empires: Definitive Edition. Unfortunately, it seems that the developers need some more time to get everything prepared, so the first step in the AoE revival has been pushed back to 2018. Microsoft has been touting its renewed support for PC gaming over the last couple of years but 2017 was the year the company really started to prove it. Age of Empires is set to get a full blown revival , starting with ‘Definitive Editions’ for the first three games, followed by Age of Empires IV. Initially, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition was supposed to release this week on the 19 th of October. However, this has since been revised, with developers calling on more players to sign up to the closed beta to help with testing. The development team put out a blog post to address things: “When we set out to re-release the original Age of Empires, we had many debates over the extent of restoration that we should undertake. The challenge of re-releasing a classic is just that: it’s a classic and it deserves to be treated with careful reverence. At the same time, in a living, thriving genre, norms continually evolve, technology advances, and player expectations change. This is as true for RTS as for any other genre. So, the challenge is to recreate the experience not as it *actually* ...



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