Calling all 90s kids: Microsoft promises to bring back Age of Empires

New Delhi: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has promised to explore the possibility of bringing out a new Age of Empires, a series of personal computer games developed by Ensemble studios and published by Microsoft studios.

"I will look into this, how many empires do you need?," Gates said while responding to a question, as part of the session that included discussions of bio-terrorism and sushi, the independent reported.

Age of Empires is a historical real-time strategy games, and their gameplay revolves around two main game modes: single player and campaign.

They competed with another popular strategy series, civilization, and are set amidst historical events.