Microsoft Announces Age Of Empires: Castle Siege

<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">The next instalment in the Age of Empires franchise is probably not what fans were hoping for&period; Castle Siege has been designed as a touch based game where players must design bases and build up armies with which to attack other online players&period; If that sounds familiar to you then that&&num;8217&semi;s because the game plays extremely similarly to Supercell&&num;8217&semi;s smash hit Clash of Clans&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">This news comes just days after <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;star-wars-commander-hits-ios-devices&sol;">Disney announced their own Clash of Clans knock off&comma; Star Wars&colon; Commander<&sol;a>&period; As with all the other games attempting to ape Supercell&&num;8217&semi;s successful formula&comma; Castle Siege will be a free to play title with plenty of micro-transactions&period; The game offers the choice of six different civilizations all of which are from previous games in the franchise&period; The factions on offer are the Britons&comma; Byzantines&comma; Franks&comma; Kievan Rus&comma; Saracens and Teutonic Order&period; Microsoft is promising that Castle Siege will include &&num;8221&semi;all the strategy and combat Age of Empires is renowned for&&num;8221&semi;&period; From what we&&num;8217&semi;ve seen so far&comma; that seems to be a lie&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Age of Empires&colon; Castle Siege is being developed by Smoking Gun Interactive and will be released on Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 next month&period; You can check out the announcement trailer above&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2014&sol;8&sol;25&sol;6067051&sol;age-of-empires-castle-siege-windows-8">Polygon<&sol;a><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;