As its name suggests, Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition” is an updated version of Age of Empires 3 which comes packaged with graphic and gameplay improvements that do a solid job of modernizing the title, but there's only so much modern window dressing you can put on old code.
The entire Age of Empires franchise is coming later this month to GeForce NOW, the latest product of the Microsoft/NVIDIA partnership.
From Proactive Investors: "Keywords Studios has signed a conditional agreement to acquire Forgotten Empires, a full-service video game development studio, for up to US$32.5mln.
Forgotten Empires specialises in strategy games and developed Age of Empires for Microsoft, where it also worked with Keywords, including all of the recent version updates of the successful franchise.
Keywords said the acquisition is part of its strategy to become the 'go to' technical and creative services platform in the global video games industry."
"Last month, Age of Empires IV released for PC and it marks the first full installment of the franchise since Age of Empires III back in 2005. I spent a good chunk of time on it and had a fairly good time but before I first booted it up, a couple questions kept entering my mind: does Age of Empires have a place in gaming anymore and is the franchise on the whole still worth playing?" - Trey Griffeth from Video Chums
Looking forward to buying this game and playing it this weekend.