World’s Edge, the Xbox studio that is overseeing lately, held an occasion to mark the franchise’s twenty fifth anniversary. With it got here about the way forward for the sequence, together with its debut on consoles. shall be accessible on Xbox consoles and Xbox Cloud Gaming on January thirty first. 

The most up-to-date sport within the real-time technique sequence, 2021’s , will arrive on consoles and Xbox Cloud Gaming later in 2023. Naturally, each titles shall be accessible on Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. This is a giant shift for a sequence that, till now, has solely been accessible on PC. 

There shall be crossplay assist for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, so you possibly can play with buddies whether or not you are on Xbox, PC or accessing it by way of the cloud. What’s extra, the sport will assist keyboard and mouse inputs on console. In case you’d relatively use a gamepad, World’s Edge has designed a brand new controller tutorial, together with a revamped onboarding expertise for newcomers to the sport. On prime of that, the staff has added an AI system that is designed to make useful resource administration extra environment friendly and intuitive.

Elsewhere, World’s Edge a brand new definitive version of 2002’s Age of Mythology, that includes “beautiful graphics, updated gameplay” and different options. Expect extra particulars within the coming months. And, as is the way in which of issues within the trendy period, Age of Empires Mobile is in improvement, so you can get your AoE repair wherever you might be with out having to stream a sport from the cloud. That sport is coming quickly, in accordance with a teaser.