The Chinese faction in Age of Empires IV.
The Chinese faction in Age of Empires IV.
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Age of Empires IV ships on October 28

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Microsoft announced that Age of Empires IV will ship October 28 on the PC, and it will be available day one on Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service.

Microsoft made the announcement at its Xbox event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). You can preorder it today. It’s my birthday, so it will be easy for me to remember that date.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.