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Microsoft’s Latest Round Of Layoffs May Have Killed A Brand New Age Of Empires Game - Kotaku
Publisher description: Rumors suggest World's Edge might have been working on a new entry, after news that its current project has been cancelled
NewsAPI | Sep 24, 2026 | John Walker
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Not anymore, however, given the gutting of internal studio World’s Edge, the team that had overseen the production of the recent remasterings of Age of Empires and Age of Mythology titles. World’s Edge was created to be something of a peculiarity within Xbox—rather than a development studio itself, it instead existed to oversee the Age of Empires franchise within Microsoft (an IP the company has owned since 1997), supervising multiple studios working on the series’ games.
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