Age of Empires 2 team continues to cook while delivering 'legendarily long' 8,000-word patch notes about 'the biggest updates' the 26-year-old game has ever had

Key art for the new Age of Empires 2 expansion showing an angry Viking and Japanese warlod.

I know a guy whose only game is Age of Empires 2. He's been playing it for about 25 years. He doesn't have a gaming PC, doesn't have a wider interest in gaming, and when I once mentioned Age of Empires 3 he said "oh yeah I heard they made another one" and that was the end of the conversation.

AoE 2 fans do be like that: Why bother with another videogame when perfection has already been achieved? And the venerable 26 year-old strategy title continues to have an incredible afterlife, enabled in part by 2019's Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, and things are certainly not slowing down.