Age of Empires IV is coming to Xbox Game Pass in 2023

Microsoft introduced throughout a Twenty fifth-anniversary celebration of Age of Empires that the most recent recreation, Age of Empires IV, is coming to consoles subsequent 12 months. It will launch on day one on Xbox Game Pass, and it will likely be playable by way of Xbox Cloud Gaming for individuals who choose to play on moveable units. The recreation launched in late 2021 for PC, and it has been out there since then for PC Game Pass subscribers, however it is a nice alternative for console avid gamers to test it out.

In case you missed out on the PC launch otherwise you’ve simply been ready patiently for information on this port, my colleague Mitchell Clark has some enjoyable protection from final 12 months on the spectacular lengths that Microsoft and World’s Edge (the studio centered on Age of Empires) went to provide deeper historic context to the sport’s battles. It recorded documentary footage of reenactments that you simply’ll be capable of watch with every mission.

It’s form of a giant deal when real-time technique (RTS) video games come to consoles as a result of they aren’t a pure match and there are quite a few challenges to gracefully make the soar from PC to console. They want work on their interfaces, efficiency, and management schemes to provide console avid gamers the entire identical instructions they’d get on a keyboard.

Gamers have been asking for Age of Empires to return to console for years, so it’s nice that it’s lastly occurring (and that it gained’t come at an additional value for Game Pass subscribers). And, should you want one other RTS to chew on earlier than that launches, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is coming to consoles first on January thirty first, 2023.