Stardock, BonusXP Join for Age of Empires Veterans' Next Game

Published on September 9, 2014 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

Official announcement: https://forums.stardock.com/457624/page/1/

VentureBeat article: http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/09/age-of-empires-developers-releasing-new-game-with-stardock/

BonusXP, a company founded by senior Age of Empires developers, announced this morning that they will publish an upcoming PC strategy title with Stardock Entertainment, best known for the Galactic Civilizations series.

They did not announce the content or release date of the new game. It will use what Stardock is calling Project Tachyon, its new matchmaking and cloud-gaming service. They are designing Tachyon to work with existing systems like Steam, adding matchmaking, league play, cloud-hosted multiplayer contests, and progress tracking on the web.

Comments

The_Biz

on Sep 09, 2014

tachyon sounds neat

I can count the number of conveniently playable multiplayer strategy games on 1 finger

OsirisDawn

on Sep 10, 2014

So someone is developing something somewhere using some-other-thing, which isnt done yet, but will do what others already did.

OK, i guess ...

I always wonder what those kind of announcement are useful for ...

hedetet

on Sep 10, 2014

OsirisDawn

reply 2

So someone is developing something somewhere using some-other-thing, which isnt done yet, but will do what others already did.

OK, i guess ...

I always wonder what those kind of announcement are useful for ...

I guess that's the "big thing" Brad said they hadn't even hinted at yet?

It's interesting that they're not using the Oxide / Nitrous tech, though. I thought it was made to advance games such as RTSes?

Heavenfall

on Sep 10, 2014

GET HYPE!

THE HYPE IS ON!

HYPE! HYPE!

psychoak

on Sep 10, 2014

A big thing that they haven't even hinted at and will probably be revealed at next years CES is not going to be a third party publishing announcement.

V00DOO

on Sep 10, 2014

"I can count them on one finger"?

Make it two man... Starcraft and Supreme Commander

OsirisDawn

on Sep 11, 2014

Heavenfall

reply 4

GET HYPE!

THE HYPE IS ON!

HYPE! HYPE!

I would love to be hyped, but this announcement contains no information at all to be hyped for. For all i know they are doing a new Sodoku ... mith multiplayer and matchmaking.

http://www.littletinyfrogs.com/ has more Information, but announcing an upcoming announcement half a year before it is just ...

OsirisDawn

on Sep 11, 2014

hedetet

reply 3

...
It's interesting that they're not using the Oxide / Nitrous tech, though. I thought it was made to advance games such as RTSes?

I guess we dont know if they are using Nitrous, the announcement isnt saying what they are using at all or what this game is about. The matchmaking will be something called Tachyon if i understand correctly, but ist hard to get excited about matchmaking when i dont even know what game it is used for.

hedetet

on Sep 11, 2014

While you're technically right, if they were using Nitrous tech, you'd expect them to announce it given that the announcement mentions Tachyon, which is arguably less fundamental and exciting to announce (though they could be saving it for later). Anyway, I'm just trying to goad them into commenting on it

OsirisDawn

on Sep 11, 2014

hedetet

reply 9

You have a point there. And it would really be great if they would use Nitrous. But maybe Nitrous isnt far enough developed yet. We will see and hopefully be excited in time.

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