Our role at Microsoft is to enable these great developers to make Age products and to be the overseers and the ones making sure that we're on-message and on-brand for delivering what we believe to be great Age of Empires experiences. But they're also helping each other out with all the games, too.
We do have an internal team but we're really providing oversight to our wonderful development partners - our team at Forgotten Empires that made Age of Empires Definitive Edition and is working on Age of Empires II - Definitive Edition, but we also have a group in Australia - Tantalus Media - that's working on Age of Empires III. What's the strategy for the series moving forward? You've got Forgotten Empires and Tantalus working on these Definitive Editions, Relic handling Age of Empires 4 and a new arm of Xbox Game Studios that's focused on the brand. They believe in the future we're creating for the franchise. Of course, the people there have seen what we're doing with Age 4 and there's a lot of confident coming off that. It's awesome, but also an incredible amount of responsibility. The fact that we have Satya down saying the company believes in games and these franchises, and everyone loves Age of Empires so much that they have the confidence to allow us to create a studio specifically for Age of Empires. Why is Microsoft investing so heavily in Age of Empires? Just three years ago the brand seemed to be hibernating.Īs someone who works at Microsoft, the commitment to Age is incredible. We caught up with the brand's creative director Adam Isgreen to find out more about updating Age of Empires and why the brand seems to be in vogue right now That's on top of a brand new entry in the franchise with Sega-owned strategy guru Relic at the helm and a brand new arm of Xbox Game Studios that's overseeing the brand headed up by Microsoft GM of publishing Shannon Loftis. Either way, the historical strategy game series saw a return with 2018's Age of Empires Definitive Edition, an update of the 1997 franchise debut, with both Age of Empires 2 and 3 receiving similar treatment.
Well, maybe it never went away with Microsoft claiming that one million people play the franchise each month. After what felt like a very long nap, the Age of Empires franchise is once again active.
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