Two extra Microsoft first-party video games are coming to PlayStation 5 in 2025. Age of Mythology: Retold and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, two real-time technique titles from the Xbox Game Studios steady, shall be obtainable on PS5 within the coming months, developer World’s Edge introduced Tuesday. Age of Mythology: Retold, a remaster of 2002’s Age of Mythology, will launch on Sony’s console on March 4, whereas Age of Empires II: Definitive Version shall be launched on the platform this Spring, with no particular launch date introduced but.
Michael Mann, head of World’s Edge, made the announcement on the Age of Empires website Tuesday and confirmed the 2 video games would arrive on PS5 alongside new expansions for each.
“I am delighted to share that we’re giving followers extra option to play the place they need by bringing Age of Empires II: Definitive Version and Age of Mythology: Retold to PlayStation 5,” Mann stated. “This is not nearly comfort—it is about rising and strengthening the Age neighborhood,” he added. Each video games will help cross-play throughout PC, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms.
Age of Mythology: Retold Coming to PS5 in March
Mann introduced that Age of Mythology: Retold would launch on PS5 on March 4, together with a brand new Immortal Pillars growth, which shall be obtainable on all platforms. “We are going to welcome PlayStation 5 gamers to journey with Arkantos, select their pantheon, and combat for divine blessings with all the identical content material obtainable within the Xbox and PC variations,” he stated.
PS5 gamers who pre-purchase the Premium Version will obtain five-day early entry to the sport beginning February 27, entry to the Immortal Pillars growth, and extra. World’s Edge confirmed that beginning March 4, all recreation updates shall be rolled out on all platforms — Steam, Home windows Retailer, Xbox and PlayStation 5, concurrently.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Version Coming to PS5 in Spring 2025
Whereas World’s Edge didn’t specify a launch date, the studio stated Age of Empires II: Definitive Version would launch on PS5 this spring. The developer stated the sport could be launched on the platform alongside “one of the crucial thrilling DLC expansions for Age II: DE but,” which might function new content material and new civilizations for Ranked, all playable throughout PC, Xbox, and PS5.
World’s Edge additionally introduced it might launch two new DLCs for Age of Empires IV in 2025. The primary of those two DLCs, Knights of Cross and Rose, will launch in spring, as nicely.
The 2 real-time technique video games will be a part of Xbox first-party title Forza Horizon 5 on the PS5. Developer Playground Video games announced final week that the acclaimed racing title would arrive on PS5 this spring.
Microsoft has dedicated to launching extra Xbox video games on rival platforms from Sony and Nintendo this yr because the firm shifted to a multi-platform launch technique in 2024. Xbox chief Phil Spencer said final month that no Xbox unique title was off-limits on the query of launching on rival platforms.
“What we discover is we’re capable of drive a greater enterprise that permits us to spend money on nice recreation lineup such as you noticed (at Xbox Developer Direct). And that is our technique. Our technique is to permit our video games to be obtainable,” Spencer stated in an interview in January.