It’s been a while since we brought you news from the Age of Empires II universe, but we’re just in time for an early Christmas surprise!
Age of Empires II HD has been conquering the world for 17 years now and is finally setting foot ashore Southeast Asia!
On the 19th of December, we welcome Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas!
With four fresh new civs to conquer the world, four fresh campaigns and hordes of elephants, you’re sure to have plenty of wololo’s for years to come.
For more information on the game, you can check out the Steam Store page or our Rise of the Rajas page for more information on the upcoming expansion. The details on each civilization will be teased on our website over the next few days!
Launch Events
We’re only six days away from unleashing hordes of elephants on the world, but we’re not going to make you wait that long to get a taste of the new greatness in store; Here’s a breakdown of this week’s upcoming events:
- ZeroEmpires and the rest of the crew at Escape Gaming are putting on the Battle for Angkor tournament on December 17–18! This tournament, featuring some of the world’s top Age of Empires II players, will be streamed live for all to see right here on the brand-new Escape Twitch channel! More details coming soon.
- We will be publishing a new sneak peek each day until release. Each day from the 14th till the 17th we will reveal details on each of the new civilizations.
- We’ll have a countdown-to-launch stream featuring special guests, including devs from Skybox Labs and Forgotten Empires, on the official Age of Empires Twitch and Beam channels on December 19. More details coming soon!
Yeah! new AoE2 Expansion!! 🙂 I hope AoE3 Complete will also get HD Update (and will be named for instance Special Steam Edition) to be ready for new DLCs like Napoleonic Age
Great, expanding the franchise! Will there be another AoM EE DLC in the future as well? I sure hope so! Best game ever 🙂
I really want an AoE IV (but not modern age or WW… Maybe remake the AoE 1 with better graphics) or AoE III new expansions 😛
Forgotten Empires is not the people for that. A new Age of Empires game needs to be tackled by a AAA studio.
Forgotten Empires could do a Rollercoaster Tycoon 1/2 HD I think, very well…
i want too…
Only civs missing in AoE 3 are african and norse civs, maybe south american, oh and SE asian civs xD Maybe they could integrate the Wars of Liberty mod, the biggest modification to the game with the most innovations.
Oh my god, today is a day that Im going to remember forever, because one of my aoe2 dreams has come true, 😀 a SE Asian Civs Expansion. Im so happy right now, Ive been wating for this expansion for a least 1 decade. To be really honest, I got very disappointed when the previous expansion it was in Africa and not SE. In my opinion it will be much better a each civ for Indonesia and Malayan as well but one is more that nothing, others important SE Asia Civs that will be missed are the Thai and the… Read more »
Siam should be added, but Indonesia and malay must remain in Malay as they are one. So does the Philippines. If Philippines should be added, it will have a problem since Philippines had no civilized kingdom only an architecture of nipa huts and small island houses. I think it will be more of a spanish type version since spain united philippines and gave it culture, and education. I say it should not be added.
I’m Vietnamese and I found that the speculation of Vietnamese race in the next DLC of AOE2 is not correct.
First, Vietnamese culture, architecture belong to East Asia culture. Buildings are in East Asia style.
Vietnamese race is a firearm race since 14th century with mass
hand cannons, cannons and mass matchlocks in next centuries. The ratio
of firearm troops sometimes reach to 70%.
The last one, Vietnamese race masters the ambush warfare. But
ambushing doesn’t mean guerilla warfare. Our warfare in medieval age is
regular, large scaled. The irregular warfare has been applied only until
the modern age.
I hope the Vietnamese will have the East Asian architecture. I will upvote your post so that maybe the developers can see it.
I don’t even know why being a historic mock up, not use freaking history itself. 😀 upvoted.
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A new DLC so soon, wow!
Just as long as the HD game is performing better, now. I won’t be able to play it until Christmas Eve, and anything higher than patch 4.2 (which I hear doesn’t exist anymore…) runs terribly for me.
I hope it captures the spirit of the originals!
I really do hope it has the Indonesians and Gajah Mada on it xD
there’s gajahmada campaign adn i assume he’s indonesian 🙂
Is there any chance AoE II will ever be ported to mac? I bought it for a friend a while ago but he’s a mac peasant. :L
Tell him to get play on mac or the wineskin winery.
Play on mac is easier for beginners and works good.
I’m assuming 4.8 will be live also when this launches the 19th or will that come later? Definitely looking forward to seeing what is in store with this new expansion.
i’m a moron…4.8 was out yesterday apparently just hadn’t played
No you aren’t, you just didn’t check. All good 🙂
And i’ve just finished my 18-page scientific paper on Indian sub-imperialism (India’s influence over parts of Asia when India was part of the British empire). It’s not the correct time period, but still. Awesome christmas gift.