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10 Dec

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Hello, Age of Empires community. I bring warm greetings from a place all too familiar to you and incredibly special to me. My name is Sage. I am a fellow wordsmith who carries a quill and paper wherever I go to record and r...

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09 Dec

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It’s that time again! Visit the official Age of Empires forum to vote for your Ranked map pool for the remainder of the year!

This Week’s Dev Picks


1v1 Random Maps

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Watch LIVE this weekend: Saturday 15GMT & Sunday 14GMT

King of the Desert returned earlier this year bigger and better than ever—this time featuring a $75,000+ prizepool, courtesy of Microsoft and Pinztec with over 200 participants in the qualification stage! A tournament dedicated to one of the oldest and most popular competitive settings in Age of Empires II, 1v1 Arabia, this series follows a long t...

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Starting today, you can update Age of Empires IV with a new patch that includes a few high profile fixes. The patch will correspond with build v. 9369 (viewable in your setting...

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07 Dec

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Have you ever played one of the Age games and started thinking about what villager life looked like? How did they cook? Where did they sleep? Even more importantly — what did their toilets look like? Did they have what is now considered to be proper plumbing?

Medieval toilets, also known as “garderobes”, were fairly primitive, usually comprised of a large shaft covered by a wooden seat for practicality and of course, comfort. The seat had a small opening in the shape of a circle or a keyhole where the waste would fall into the shaft. All the contents would then travel down the chute and on to the side of the walls into rivers, streams, or cesspits. As you may have guessed, disposing of waste in this manner often posed a significant health risk for medieval populations in Europe which would later be solved by the impleme...

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06 Dec