Xbox Game Studios' World's Edge, the studio overseeing the Age of Empires franchise, had just held an event to celebrate the series' 25th anniversary.
Not content with a normal announcement, World's Edge confirmed that two entries from the usually PC-exclusive line of real-time strategy games are coming to the Xbox consoles and Xbox Cloud Gaming next year.
The first one, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, first came out in 2019. The remaster of the original 1999 title expands on the game. In total, the re-release comes with 34 single-player campaigns and 10 multiplayer modes as well as 7 co-op campaigns on top of 83 maps and 42 multiplayer civilizations.
Meanwhile, the other one is the most recent entry, Age of Empires IV, which launched last year. More importantly, the console version of Age of Empires IV will support keyboard and mouse inputs and a new tutorial designed to make the onboarding experience of gamepad purists much easier. Finally, World's Edge confirms that the game's AI system is now much more efficient and intuitive compared to what was previously used.
