We’re ageing up and heading into the console age. Age of Empires is coming to Xbox consoles in 2023! Our workforce has been listening to you while you’ve been asking us to convey these globally beloved RTS titles to Xbox and we’ll be doing that subsequent yr. After launching and evolving these video games, the time is correct to convey them to each present followers and new gamers on Xbox. 2023 could have two console launches to sit up for: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition arrives on Xbox on January 31, 2023, with Age of Empires IV coming to consoles later within the yr.

Age of Empires has grown and thrived over 25 years due to gamers all around the world who’ve conquered campaigns, succeeded in skirmish and mastered multiplayer. We maintain our gamers on the coronary heart of what we do and pay shut consideration to what they inform us. So, after listening to requests for Age of Empires to make its Xbox console debut, we heard you and we agreed!

2022 has been an unimaginable yr for Age of Empires with over 25 recreation updates, greater than 15 in-game occasions (with wonderful rewards) and over 14,000 mods created and revealed. The Age of Empires group continues to develop and thrive.

We knew that bringing the complexity of RTS to Xbox consoles was a large job and one we needed to method rigorously and thoughtfully. The workforce has been working exhausting to convey an expertise that not solely feels nice utilizing a controller, but additionally teaches gamers tips on how to play on Xbox. A brand new tutorial designed particularly for controller enter paired with a brand new consumer expertise for console will assist gamers get began. We’ve additionally added a brand new recreation AI which helps make useful resource administration in a technique recreation environment friendly and intuitive.

We’re so excited to convey among the finest and most beloved RTS video games of all time to Xbox. Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition has been rising since its launch in 2019. After nearly 40 updates, 3 DLC additions bringing new civilizations and campaigns, and a continuing stream of enhancements, the sport is one of the best it’s ever been. Players can take pleasure in 83 maps, 42 multiplayer civilizations, 34 single-player campaigns, 10 multiplayer modes, and seven co-op campaigns. And now, Xbox gamers will have the ability to take pleasure in all this phenomenal recreation has to supply!

For these gamers who’re loyal to keyboard and mouse, we’ve ensured that these inputs are supported within the console model. We additionally thought-about the performance Xbox gamers have come to count on from their video games and so the sport will embrace elective crossplay between platforms, permitting you to play with your folks on Xbox and on PC. We’re additionally bringing the sport to Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta), permitting gamers to proceed their empire constructing, even when away from PC or console.

2023 might be a giant yr for these of you who’ve been asking for an Xbox model of Age of Empires as we’ll even be releasing a console model of Age of Empires IV later within the yr! The console groups have been working carefully collectively to create a complementary expertise that can convey the most recent addition to the Age of Empires roster to Xbox gamers. We’ll have extra to share subsequent yr so be sure you comply with our official social channels to listen to all of the information because it comes.

Both console variations of the video games might be obtainable via the Microsoft Store, Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, bringing the trebuchet launching, fort destroying, empire constructing motion to gamers throughout the globe on the platforms they wish to play on.

We can’t wait to start this new age. Join us!