{"id":71325,"date":"2015-01-12T13:52:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T11:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71325"},"modified":"2015-01-12T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T11:54:14","slug":"is-age-of-empires-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/71325-is-age-of-empires-making-a-comeback","title":{"rendered":"Is Age of Empires making a comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Age of Empires 2 is a game that brings warm and fuzzy feelings into our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>The hours spent building unconquerable fortresses and epic armies, only to have a regiment of lance-carrying soldiers stab your horses to death and catapults smash your castle to pieces &#8211; good times.<\/p>\n<p>Good times which may make a comeback, if you are one for reading into <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&amp;pg=6&amp;so=&amp;rw=71&amp;jid=164301&amp;jlang=EN&amp;pp=SS\" target=\"_blank\">job advertisements<\/a>. Microsoft is looking for some software gurus to work on\u00a0&#8220;the next installment in a beloved strategy game franchise&#8221;, with the successful candidate set to join\u00a0Decisive Games.<\/p>\n<p>According to the advertisement, the team is focused on world-class strategy game development.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft owns the rights to three popular RTS titles:\u00a0Age of Empires II,\u00a0Rise of Nations, and Halo Wars. If I had to put money on one of them getting remade, it would be Age of Empires.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope I am right.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q_MEFt7KrxQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71281-this-weeks-epic-video-roundup-24.html\">This week\u2019s epic video roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/71247-telkom-adsl-speed-upgrade-on-the-cards.html\">Telkom ADSL speed upgrade on the cards?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/71251-call-of-duty-can-teach-us-about-the-world.html\">Call of Duty can teach us about the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is looking for people to work on &#8220;the next installment in a beloved strategy game franchise&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":71327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10436,13181,21,4273],"class_list":["post-71325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-age-of-empires","tag-decisive-games","tag-headline","tag-microsoft-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71329,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71325\/revisions\/71329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}