Microsoft is looking for a senior software engineer who will work on a strategic game in a beloved series, as appears from a perspective of the software giant. Microsoft sought previously a lead designer for the same project.
The senior software engineer Microsoft, in Redmond to work at Microsoft Game Studios. The department known as the Decisive Games Team working there, according to the perspective of ‘a new part of a popular series of strategy games’. More details about the game, Microsoft does not. In may 2014 Microsoft published a similar ad. When was looking for a lead developer that a new development team wanted to go. At the time, described Microsoft the game where the lead developer had to go to work in the same way. It could mean that the design phase of the project completed and the production phase can be started.
Microsoft has in the past not a lot of strategic games published. The company is mainly known for the Age of Empires series, which suggests that the game where Microsoft is now working on a new version of Age of Empires. The original games were made by Ensemble Studios that Microsoft in 2001, but in 2009 already closed. That seemed to be Microsoft to distance themselves from the genre. Then experimented the company with new revenue models. So, Microsoft released the free playable Age of Empires Online, which was made by Robot Entertainment, a studio founded by former Ensemble employees.
Microsoft then brought in 2013, Age of Empires II: HD Edition, a polished version of the game from 1999 that use Steam to download. Also Age of Mythology from 2002 is a polished version via Steam appeared. Further, Microsoft hopes a mobile version of Age of Empires on the market. The Japanese Klab is working on the free playable Age of Empires: World Domination, that appears for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. In strategic games, Microsoft released the last years only Halo Wars, the last game that Ensemble delivered.
