The official Age of Empires 3 site has another in-house Q&A about the game. This time the lead programmer Dave Pottinger gets to talk about his work, the graphics engine and the minimized UI.

GameCloud has a new Age of Empires 3 Q&A, asking lead designer Greg Street more about the soon to be released strategy game sequel. Questions are about the reactions to the demo, the game's time period, balancing all the civilizations, the Home City feature, engine technology and plans to release editing tools.

The Age of Empires community website has been updated with a brief in-house Age of Empires 3 Q&A. Designer Greg Street talks about his work as a designer, the home city feature, favorite Age and favorite cut feature.

According to this story on Worthplaying, an updated Age of Empires 3 demo will be released this week. It will feature an optional minimized UI, a tutorial, and miscellaneous bug fixes.

IGN has a new Age of Empires 3 preview, going over the game's development and features with senior designer Bruce Shelley (though not in Q&A format).

Over at IGN you can find the latest Age of Empires 3 faction feature. This time we're told all about the Russians. Age of Empires 3 went gold yesterday and will be in stores October 18.

Microsoft has let us know that Ensemble Studios' highly anticipated strategy game sequel Age of Empires 3 has gone gold. Both the regular and Collector's Edition (details) of the game will be in stores October 18. A demo was released earlier this month, you can grab that here.

The third game in the illustrious Age of Empires series that has sold more than 16 million copies and defined the historical RTS, Age of Empires III is being hailed by critics as a new benchmark for real-time strategy games. The minimum system requirements for Age of Empires III are: 1.4GHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB video card that supports hardware transform and lighting, Windows XP, 56k modem for online play, and 2GB hard drive space.
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GameShark and Gaming Nexus are two of the latest sites to offer their thoughts on the preview build of Age of Empires 3.

GameSpy has a new Age of Empires 3 article, taking a look at six non-combat units in Ensemble's newest strategy game. Meanwhile IGN checks out the British faction in the game.

Worthplaying's preview of Age of Empires 3 is now available, offering hands-on impressions based on playing the game's preview build.

As expected, an Age of Empires 3 demo is now available. The 366mb download includes two campaign missions and two skirmish maps. Ensemble Studios' newest strategy game is due out in October.

Computer & Video Games has posted a Q&A with Bruce Shelley, asking the Ensemble Studios co-founder about Age of Empires 3. Shelley is asked about the game's new features, the card system, the single player campaign, the multiplayer features, engine features, and the future of PC gaming.

Game Over, GameCloud and Game Revolution all have Age of Empires 3 previews, offering their impressions of the game's preview build.

According to this post on the Age of Empires 3 Heaven forums, an Age of Empires 3 demo should be out this month. The 375mb demo will include 2 singleplayer scenarios as well as 2 random maps playable as one of two civilizations. Thanks Evil Avatar.

GameSpy takes the latest look at Age of Empires 3 offering up some insight into the progress of the hotly anticipated RTS. The home city feature seems to be the big to do in this incarnation.

Over at 1UP you can find the latest Age of Empires 3 preview, offering impressions based on play time with a preview build that Microsoft recently sent out.

Boomtown is the latest site with an Age of Empires 3 preview, offering their thoughts on the preview build. Fragland also has a preview.

GameSpy has a new Age of Empires 3 article, written by the game's lead designer Greg Street. He writes about what the Home City feature will add to the game.

FiringSquad is the latest site to check out the preview build of Age of Empires 3. There are impressions as well as screenshots. Age of Empires 3 is due out in October.

There's a new Age of Empires 3 unit feature on IGN, this time taking a look at those crazy Spaniards. New screenshots are included.