Microsoft Opens New Age of Empires Studio - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 January 2020 / 2,858 Views
Microsoft announced it has opened up a new studio dedicated to the development of Age of Empires games. The studio is headed by Shannon Loftis and the Publishing group is headed by Peter Wyse.
The new studio, alongside the acquisition of Double Fine, brings the total 15 studios that comprise Xbox Game Studios.
Thanks GamesIndustry.
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They should call the studio Ensemble.
Who even are the people developing the new Microsoft Flight Simulator? They got to count for something.
15? More like 14, since Microsoft global publishing isn't producing games.
On side note, now sony got 12 active studios and MS got 14! Damn, Ms coming from 5 studios to 14 sure looks great, now let's see the quality of future games.
Lets keep in mind that 15 sounds like alot however not all these studios are for the console side of things.
Great to see AoE getting some new age love. Looks like we will see more AoE games in the future.
Honestly I think that's a good thing. They have plenty of manpower, and they used to have great PC output, so I am glad that they started to focus on the PC market again.
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