"Bruce Shelly, codesigner of Sid Meier's Civilization , is involved in this project, so expect remarkable things from Age of Empires later this year, " babbles a sycophantic quote from Canada Computes on Microsoft's web page.

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It coincides with the rise of agriculture and civilization, through the industrial revolution to the information age today.

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