Of course, those who want to play earlier can pick up the Premium Edition for $49.99. It features five days of advanced access, Immortal Pillars, Gods Pack: Freyr and Legacy Deity Portraits Pack. Access to a second unannounced expansion is also included.

The PS5 version will include all previously released updates and features cross-platform play. Even better, all versions will have update parity, ensuring they receive the latest patches simultaneously.

As for Immortal Pillars, it includes 12 new playable gods, including Fuxi, Nüwa, Gonggong, and Zhurong, with different powers and mythological units like Yazi, Zhuque, and Taou. There’s also a new campaign based on Chinese mythology, spanning nine levels and seven new maps. Check out the trailer below to see it in action.

In a recently published report, Windows Central’s Jez Corden has claimed that Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, and Age of Mythology: Retold are all headed for the PS5. That’s in addition to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Corden says the latter two are also headed to the Nintendo’s Switch successor, but we don’t yet have word on whether that’s the case for the others (though he speculates it will be).

Currently, Microsoft only has one title officially confirmed for an upcoming multiplatform launch – Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which launches for the PS5 this Spring.

However, it’s also received backlash for the Legacy Deity Portrait Pack, which contains the original portraits of its deities for $6. Fans were initially peeved to see the new portraits, especially with no option to change to the originals. Seeing them ripped out and sold separately has prompted a “Very Negative” rating, with only 16 percent of the 207 user reviews on Steam marked as positive.

The game has otherwise been received well, with 92 percent of the 4,409 user reviews positive, resulting in a “Very Positive” rating on Steam. As for what’s next, the team will add new features like Arena of the Gods and improvements based on community feedback. It also has an expansion in the works, with a second due sometime in the future. Check out the roadmap here for more details.

On September 4th, Age of Mythology: Retold, a remake of the 2002 real-time strategy classic, will go live for cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X/S. Following last week’s advanced access launch, it’s garnered a “Very Positive” rating on Steam based on 3,421 user reviews.

September 5th sees the launch of Expeditions: A MudRunner Game for cloud, PC, and consoles. As the latest title in the MudRunner series, it takes a more adventure-heavy approach, with players mapping out regions and surmounting obstacles in the wild.

Riders Republic follows on September 11th, with the multiplayer title offering numerous outdoor sports like bike racing, skiing, snowboarding, and wingsuiting. There are also massive races in which up to 64 players can participate. Train Sim World 5 closes out the wave when it launches on September 17th for cloud, consoles and PC.

Check out the titles leaving the service on September 15th:

• Ashes of Singularity: Escalation (PC)
• FIFA 23 (Cloud, Console, and PC, EA Play)
• Payday 3 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• Slime Rancher 2 (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• SpiderHeck (Cloud, Console, and PC)
• You Suck At Parking (Cloud, Console, and PC)

August 21st’s broadcast will feature S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Atomfall, Age of Mythology: Retold, and other titles. August 22nd focuses on Star Wars Outlaws, World of Warcraft: The War Within, Towerborne, etc. On August 23rd, we can look forward to games like Avowed and Ara: History Untold.

Bethesda will also have a stream each day at 5 AM PDT on Twitch, so stay tuned for potential announcements from the same. The Xbox @ gamescom 2024 live broadcast is in English but will also be available in Arabic, French, Korean, Japanese, German, and more. ASL and English Audio Descriptions are also included.

There will also be theater presentations for Avowed, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Starfield: Shattered Space. Other playable titles from third-party studios include Star Wars Outlaws, Little Nightmares 3, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Atomfall, and a new demo for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

Indie titles like Squirrel with a Gun, Winter Burrow, The Alters, REPLACED, and Creatures of Ava will also be available in a dedicated Indie Selects area. Check out the list of available games here.

Gamescom 2024 runs from August 21st to 25th. Before that, Gamescom Opening Night Live returns on August 20th with new announcements. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks.

Available until July 14th, 11:59 PM PT, beta players will have access to the Tutorial, three Pantheons (Greek, Norse and Egyptian), and the Fall of the Trident campaign’s initial five missions. Skirmish and Multiplayer are also confirmed, with the latter supporting up to eight players.

The purpose of the closed beta is to polish existing systems, root out bugs and provide feedback on balance (which is ongoing, so don’t take it as the meta going into launch). Of course, the beta has issues – localization for its supported languages is incomplete, and cross-play between the Microsoft Store and Steam players may not work. World’s Edge does note that in-game invites should function, even if they’re unavailable outside of the game.

Age of Mythology: Retold launches on September 4th for Xbox Series X/S and PC. Outside of the closed beta, there are plans for a limited-time stress on Steam “designed to fully load out and test our servers” with no pre-orders required. Stay tuned for updates in the meantime.

Microsoft has, for instance, confirmed that it will be attending Gamescom this year, as recent leaks had suggested. Set between August 21 and 25, the event will see Microsoft bringing its biggest ever booth for Gamescom, with the company’s lineup of titles being a packed one. The first-party Xbox titles that are confirmed for Gamescom so far are Avowed, Ara: History Untold, Towerborne, Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred, World of Warcraft: The War Within, and Age of Mythology: Retold, among others. Further updates on The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 will also be shared.

Of course, a couple of the aforementioned titles (specifically, Towerborne and Avowed) do not have specific release dates, in spite of being officially set for 2024 releases, so it’s likely that Microsoft will announce launch dates for them at Gamescom.

So far, Ubisoft and THQ Nordic have also confirmed that they will be in attendance at Gamescom this year. On the other hand, however, PlayStation and Nintendo will be skipping the event.

But you want to know about the games, huh?

Just a few you can expect to see: Age of Mythology: Retold, Avowed, Ara: History Untold, Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred, Diablo Immortal, The Elder Scrolls Online, Fallout 76, Towerborne & World of Warcraft: The War Within. More to come!

— Xbox (@Xbox) June 20, 2024

Described as “an epic and innovative experience for old and new players alike”, Age of Mythology: Retold will modernize the original game with several new features and updates, which we get plenty of new glimpses of in its new trailer, chief among them being, of course, its instantly noticeable visual enhancements. Plenty of maps and factions are also shown off, as well as some of the high-flying, explosive battles that fans of the original will be familiar with.

Age of Mythology: Retold will launch on September 4 for Xbox Series X/S and PC, and will also be available via Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass day and date.

The trailer, clocking in at over 4 minutes, was presented by art director Melinda Rose, who went on to showcase some of the new assets for units coming to Age of Mythology: Retold, such as Medusa, Pegasus, and Cerberus. The trailer caps things off by showing off the new key art for Age of Mythology: Retold.

Originally announced back in October 2022 when Microsoft was celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Age of Empires franchise, Age of Mythology: Retold is set to be an expanded remaster of the original in the vein of Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition.