The head of Microsoft's PC division, Stuart Moulder said that Ensemble will develop another AGE OF EMPIRES game. AGE OF EMPIRES III will be historically based, as opposed to Ensembles AGE OF MYTHOLOGY which includes fantasy elements. The setting for AGE III hasn't been decided yet, although Moulder said the "Age of Discovery" - with it's sailing ships, conquest of new worlds, and plentiful men with rifles - is under consideration.

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