Microsoft will use a different strategy for the Age of Empires series in the future, developing games solely in partnership with other teams.
Microsoft has had different plans over the years for the Age of Empires game series. First purchased by the former Ensemble Studios and closed in 2009. Then two months ago, they founded a new studio in charge of the Age of Empires franchise exclusively. But as the creative director of the team explained for PCGamesInsider.biz, the studio will not be doing new Age of Empires games.
Specifically, as things stand, Microsoft will work with future teams in collaboration with other teams of future Age of Empires series games. The plan is the same for Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition, and for Age of Empires 3 Definitive Edition, and we already knew earlier that Age of Empires 4 was running Relic Games, a studio known for the games of the Company of Heroes series.
The studio that Microsoft founded for AoE will only oversee what others are doing. This may be best, since the creators of the original games are no longer in the Microsoft family anyway.
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