Everybody remembers the historical real-time strategy series called Age of Empires, but it had a spin-off series that's also very popular called Age of Mythology. Now Microsoft has given a very strong indication Age of Mythology is set to make a comeback in some form.

As Eurogamer reports, Adam Isgreen, creative director for the Age of Empires series at Microsoft, confirmed that Age of Mythology is set to be revisited in the future. To begin with, that will take the form of a patch for the Age of Mythology: Extended Edition (released back in 2014) to fix a number of exploits and annoynaces players have reported. After that Isgreen states he loves Age of Mythology and, "we're not going to leave it behind, we'll figure out what to do with it then."

Before Age of Mythology fans starts jumping up and down with delight, be aware that we could be kept waiting quite a while for a new or remastered game to appear. There's the small matter of the Age of Empire games to finish developing first.

We've already had Age of Empires Definitive Edition launch back in February and the second game is planned for release in the autumn. Then there's Age of Empires III to focus on and turn into a Definitive Edition as well as completing development on Age of Empires IV. According to Isgreen, Age of Mythology will become a focus once the Definitive Editions of the first three games are out and "4 is kind of rolling."

To me, that sounds like a second-half of 2020 timescale, so let's hope Microsoft continues to show an interest and the Age of Empires games don't get delayed. When Age of Mythology first launched back in 2002, it went on to sell over 1.3 million copies. It could easily do that again today if it receives the Definitive Edition treatment.

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