{"id":5798,"date":"2010-08-17T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5798"},"modified":"2018-08-03T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:27:36","slug":"age-of-empires-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/age-of-empires-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Empires Online in Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/aoe-online-S.jpg\" alt=\"aoe-online-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>AUG. 17, 2010 \u2022 Ensemble Studios may be a memory, yet its best known creation is getting new life as Age of Empires online. The title will possess some free-to-play features, and is being developed by Robot Entertainment. The latter was formed by ex-Ensemble staff after the studio was shuttered. According to Microsoft Game Studios, 75% of the team working on Age of Empires Online are developers who have previous experience with the franchise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Microsoft was an early pioneer in trying to build the PC as a game platform.\u00a0 However, with the launch of the Xbox, Microsoft shifted most of its resources to the console and its many PC efforts floundered.\u00a0This in turn had a significant negative impact on the overall PC game market.\u00a0Now Microsoft is bringing back some of its core PC franchises, not only Age of Empires, but also Flight Simulator.\u00a0Of course, changing times have meant a change in business models.\u00a0 In our new report on client-based English language F2P games, DFC forecasts the market for these games on the PC will grow to $2 billion by 2015.\u00a0 Much of this growth is likely to occur as many core PC brands adopt this model.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 17, 2010 \u2022 Ensemble Studios may be a memory, yet its best known creation is getting new life as Age of Empires online. The title will possess some free-to-play features, and is being developed by Robot Entertainment. The latter was formed by ex-Ensemble staff after the studio was shuttered. According to Microsoft Game Studios, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,66],"tags":[88,52,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16787,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}