Age of Empires 4: The Sultans Ascend release date and details revealed

The upcoming Age of Empires 4 expansion, The Sultans Ascend, will be released on November 14, 2023, for PC and Xbox Series X|S and will become available for free on Xbox Game Pass – and it comes with a huge chunk of content tailored to make fans happy. The Japanese and the Byzantines are set to celebrate their Age of Empires 4 debuts in this pack and if you know anything about the Age of Empires community, then you’ll know that it’s basically obsessed with these two cultures. Getting them both in one expansion is an incredible piece of news for players of the real-time strategy game. Now, that doesn't have much to do with any sultans, though, right? Indeed. This strange name for the expansion comes from the new campaign it contains, which will feature eight missions focusing on the Crusades – and those did have sultans. The developers are doing something extremely cool and exciting in this context: Aside from the two brand-new civilizations, they are giving us four variant civilizations. How exactly they wil