<story><title>0 A.D. Alpha 15 - Osiris</title><url>http://play0ad.com/alpha-15-osiris/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a open source RTS (real time strategy) game similar to the Age of Empires game series. It&amp;#x27;s great that 0 A.D. is coming along fine :)&lt;p&gt;Microsoft closed Ensemble Studios (the maker of Age of Empires). And EA canceled &amp;quot;Command &amp;amp; Conquer: Generals 2&amp;quot; as of October 29, 2013.&lt;p&gt;Sadly, beside Star Craft 2 (its SciFi theme is not for everyone) no triple-A RTS games are in active development :(  Back in 2000 there was the last RTS hype and one had troubles to find a new roleplaying game.&lt;p&gt;As more and more players are moving back to PC&amp;#x2F;notebooks and tablets that all have better navigation interfaces than the bad controllers, I hope RTS games come back :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>renekooi</author><text>Ensemble Studios might be closed, but Age of Empires 2 is still very much alive. For one, a 50,000$ team tournament is scheduled for March 2014[1], and a 20,000$ 1v1 tourney has just finished a week ago!&lt;p&gt;There is a UserPatch that is in active development, adding such things as widescreen, multi-monitor support and fixing tons of bugs that have existed for 14 years[2].&lt;p&gt;Of course there&amp;#x27;s also the new HD version, which is in active development, but also kind of bug-ridden. A popular AoE2 caster and commentator by the name of ZeroEmpires has a nice quick video on the current AoE scene[3].&lt;p&gt;AoE2 is still a triple-A RTS game, even after more than a decade of abandonment ;)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aoczone.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;amp;t=96960&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.aoczone.net&amp;#x2F;viewtopic.php?f=3&amp;amp;t=96960&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http://userpatch.aiscripters.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;userpatch.aiscripters.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_uOIV3SkAc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=F_uOIV3SkAc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;e; 0ad is really nice as well. Actually, I&amp;#x27;ve not played it a lot at all, but from what I&amp;#x27;ve experienced it&amp;#x27;s better than Age of Empires 3. It lacks some of the strategic aspect of AoE&lt;i&gt;2&lt;/i&gt; but wins in other areas (such as, not having archaic graphics, and supporting monitors &amp;gt; 1280x800 out of the box.)</text></comment>
<story><title>0 A.D. Alpha 15 - Osiris</title><url>http://play0ad.com/alpha-15-osiris/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>frik</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a open source RTS (real time strategy) game similar to the Age of Empires game series. It&amp;#x27;s great that 0 A.D. is coming along fine :)&lt;p&gt;Microsoft closed Ensemble Studios (the maker of Age of Empires). And EA canceled &amp;quot;Command &amp;amp; Conquer: Generals 2&amp;quot; as of October 29, 2013.&lt;p&gt;Sadly, beside Star Craft 2 (its SciFi theme is not for everyone) no triple-A RTS games are in active development :(  Back in 2000 there was the last RTS hype and one had troubles to find a new roleplaying game.&lt;p&gt;As more and more players are moving back to PC&amp;#x2F;notebooks and tablets that all have better navigation interfaces than the bad controllers, I hope RTS games come back :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stonith</author><text>Company of Heroes 2 was released this year, so while it&amp;#x27;s true none are in active developement, one did come out very recently from a non-Blizzard source. It would be most sad if SC2 effectively killed off competition, since it&amp;#x27;s going downhill in terms of popularity.&lt;p&gt;I think kickstarter is a decent chance of filling the gap - there are a lot of RTS fans who are dissatisfied with SC2 for a variety of reasons and don&amp;#x27;t like Dota.</text></comment>