{"id":1072492,"date":"2022-11-05T06:31:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1072492"},"modified":"2022-11-05T06:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T10:31:41","slug":"age-of-empires-is-25-years-old-and-fans-are-shaping-the-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1072492","title":{"rendered":"Age of Empires is 25 years old and fans are shaping the franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/aoe-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Age of Empires is 25 years old and fans are shaping the franchise\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/aoe.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1493\" data-width=\"2240\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Microsoft)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been 25 years since a small studio in Dallas recast the ancient world through the prism of a real-time strategy game. <em>Age of Empires<\/em> has echoed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RouQqawdB-0&amp;ab_channel=Moorhuhn19\">Monk wololos<\/a> about our homes ever since: Parents believed that their kids were learning history; kids believed that they were gaming surreptitiously. And veteran players know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/age-of-empires-iv\/\">both were right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet <em>Age of Empires<\/em> did not always receive the love it does today. The rise of the Xbox saw PC gaming take a back seat for Microsoft: Communities like <em>AoE<\/em>\u2019s were left to fend for themselves. In a very real way, it was the passion of these obsessives that led to Microsoft&#8217;s renewed attention and the release of the franchise&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/review\/age-of-empires-iv-4\/\">latest entry<\/a>, 2021\u2019s <em>Age of Empires IV<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1895192#p3\">Read 39 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1895192&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1895192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Age of Empires is 25 years old and fans are shaping the franchise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) It\u2019s been 25 years since a small studio in Dallas recast the ancient world through the prism of a real-time strategy game. Age of Empires has echoed Monk wololos about our homes ever since: Parents believed that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1072492\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1072493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1072492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}