Age of Empires might just be making a comeback (Picture: Getty)

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Good news for all you late-Nineties gamers out there – Bill Gates has confirmed that he will look in to bringing back Age Of Empires.

It was the Microsoft game of choice in the Nineties and early 2000s, a real-time strategy game which allowed users to form and expand the Roman Empire – and defeat other empires – and in later versions, the Middle Ages and the mythological Greek and Norse worlds.

Bill doesn’t have much to do with Microsoft anymore, the company he helped found, but during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit the philanthropist admitted that he may just head back to the world of technology for a reboot of the classic game.




‘Mr Gates, can we please have another Age of Empires?’ asked a Reddit user called le-click. ‘Not sure if this is your department, but I figured I’d ask since you were here… Thanks!’

And Mr Gates kindly responded, revealing: ‘I will look into this. How many empires do you need?’

All the empires, please.

Is a reboot of Age Of Empires part of Microsoft’s new strategy? (Picture: Microsoft)

In early 2015 it was thought that Microsoft may be relaunching the game series when a new Microsoft studio was formed to work on a new entry in a ‘beloved strategy game franchise’.

Called Decisive Games, there were multiple job listings going for the new company, but 14 months on it seems fans are still no closer to figuring out which ‘beloved’ game the company is working on.

Maybe Bill’s answer really meant ‘I will look into what is taking them so long to bring you a new Age Of Empires’.

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