Age of Empires: Definitive Edition highlights Microsoft’s renewed PC push

Microsoft has brought all of its games to both Xbox and Windows 10 since last year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow. Now, prior to this year’s event in Los Angeles, the company revealed how it’s further unifying the two platforms.

Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is coming from Microsoft on top of games like Forza Motorsport 7 and Sea of Thieves. Microsoft revealed that it has updated all of the original sprites from the real-time strategy classic Age of Empires for modern systems. The company even re-recorded the soundtrack with an actual symphony. Age of Empires will also have gameplay updates that improve things like pathfinding for units so that they don’t get lost on their way to an objective (a problem with older games). Finally, the game will have online support, and it will debut later this year. But you can signup for a beta right now.