{"id":71652,"date":"2014-08-26T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T11:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=71652"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:31:19","slug":"age-of-empires-castle-siege-coming-to-windows-8-and-windows-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/age-of-empires-castle-siege-coming-to-windows-8-and-windows-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Empires: Castle Siege coming to Windows 8 and Windows Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/microsoft\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a> has announced the upcoming release of <strong>Age of Empires: Castle Siege<\/strong> for <strong>Windows 8<\/strong> and <strong>Windows Phone<\/strong>. The company says it &#8220;brings a fast-paced experience to touch-based screens while delivering all the strategy and combat Age of Empires is renowned for&#8221;. Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n<p>Age of Empires: Castle Siege gives you a few <strong>civilizations to choose from<\/strong>, like Teutons and Britons, and is being made specifically with touch control in mind. You will take on ten historical battles, like the Fall of Constantinople.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C \nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/. \n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft says the game will include the <strong>strategy and combat<\/strong> Age of Empires is known for, but it&#8217;s impossible to look at the trailer and not be reminded of the massive <a href=\"http:\/\/clash-of-clans.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clash of Clans<\/a>. Undoubtedly, Age of Empires: Castle Siege will be a more <strong>casual game<\/strong> than previous entries in the series, but will it really have that &#8216;Age of Empires&#8217; DNA?<\/p>\n<p>When EA announced it was bringing the <a href=\"http:\/\/dungeon-keeper.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dungeon Keeper<\/a> series back for touchscreen devices last year, many people were very excited, but the game <strong>EA release angered gamers and reviewers<\/strong> alike. Taking its cues from Clash of Clans, the new Dungeon Keeper was a shell of its former self, and was ruined with poorly implemented micro-transactions. We can only hope that in bringing Age of Empires to touchscreen and mobile devices, developer Smoking Gun interactive doesn&#8217;t make the same mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>Age of Empires: Castle Siege will be released in September 2014.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Is Dungeon Keeper designed to manipulate Google Play ratings?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/is-dungeon-keeper-designed-to-manipulate-google-play-ratings\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Is Dungeon Keeper designed to manipulate Google Play ratings?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Simpsons: Tapped Out spoofs Clash of Clans\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/the-simpsons-tapped-out-clash-of-clans-update\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Simpsons: Tapped Out spoofs Clash of Clans<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E3 2014: Civilization: Beyond Earth, classic strategy has returned\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/e3-2014-civilization-beyond-earth-classic-strategy-has-returned\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E3 2014: Civilization: Beyond Earth, classic strategy has returned<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"E3 2014: low-gravity battles in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/e3-2014-low-gravity-battles-in-borderlands-the-pre-sequel\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E3 2014: low-gravity battles in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced the upcoming release of Age of Empires: Castle Siege for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. The company says it &#8220;brings a fast-paced experience to touch-based screens while delivering all the strategy and combat Age of Empires is renowned for&#8221;. Watch the trailer below. Age of Empires: Castle Siege gives you a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/age-of-empires-castle-siege-coming-to-windows-8-and-windows-phone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Age of Empires: Castle Siege coming to Windows 8 and Windows Phone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2564],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-71652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-8"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330282,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71652\/revisions\/330282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71652"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=71652"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=71652"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=71652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}