AOEO is free to play, with optional additional content such as new civs. Bit of a funny business -a dev that's specialised in impressively in-depth strategy titles for dyed-in-the-wool strategy-heads, now moving to something aimed at a new breed of online gamer.
GPG have essentially taken over ongoing development of Microsoft's free to play reboot of its historical RTS. You know how SupCom/Dungeon Siege studio Gas Powered Guys put Kings and Castles on hold? This, I'm guessing, is why. Turns out, however, that they weren't the only studio working on it. That's the project ex-Ensemble Guys Robot Entertainment were working on before turning their attentions to Orcs Must Die.
I actually wrote this post a week last Wednesday, for instance.Īnyway - Age of Empires Online. Which cracks? The ones in space and time which mean that even though RPS diligently covers every single piece of PC gaming news long before any other site, sometimes it appears as though we haven't. Here's something that slipped through the cracks last week.
