Gamers have been craving a console version of AoE.
Age of Empires, is coming to consoles next year. It will launch on day one on Xbox Game Pass, and it will be playable via Xbox Cloud Gaming for those who prefer to play on portable devices. The game launched in late 2021 for PC, and it has been available since then for PC Game Pass subscribers, but this is a great opportunity for console gamers to check it out.
In case you missed out on the PC release or you’ve just been waiting patiently for news on this port, from last year on the impressive lengths that Microsoft and World’s Edge went to give deeper historical context to the game’s battles. It recorded documentary footage of reenactments that you’ll be able to watch with each mission.It’s kind of a big deal when real-time strategy games come to consoles because they aren’t a natural fit and there are numerous challenges to gracefully make the jump from PC to console.