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Watch us play two hours of Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

And a stonemason working on a tablet...
David Caballero Editor-in-Chief Spain 21 February 2018

"Welcome Back To History" as Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is now available on Windows 10 PC (we're working on our review). While you wait on that, if you want to see the game in action 21 years after its initial release, you can play through yesterday's livestream replay below, with Thomas from the GRTV team getting to grips with the strategy game for its first two hours:

And as a bonus for more nostalgic fans, here's a '90s-style ad for the game, showing a stonemason going to work as part the promotional push for the game's launch:

Editor-in-Chief Spain David Caballero was editor-in-chief of Gamereactor Spain, writing for the site from 2011. He covered video games alongside film, tech and wider culture, and interviewed developers at events across Europe.
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