Rise of Nations ships. Microsoft releases the historical real-time strategy game from Brian Reynolds' Big Huge Games. By Sam Parker on May 20, 2003 at 6:30PM PDT. Comments. Where to buy.

Microsoft Game Studios today announced that the Rise of Nations¿ Gold Edition has been spotted on store shelves in North America for an estimated retail price of $29.95 (U.S.).

Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots, the expansion pack to the critically acclaimed, best-selling real-time strategy (RTS) game Rise of Nations, adds a barrage of new features to the original game.

It may have been in development since February, but MacSoft made up for the delay on Thursday by announcing that its real-time strategy game Rise of Nations will include the Thrones and Patriots ...

And fortunately, despite Rise of Nation's age, the Extended Edition works perfectly on modern PCs—and also comes with the base game's expansion, too. It's the definitive version of an RTS classic.

Microsoft sent out word that they've gone and shipped Big Huge Games first attempt as a dev team. The game, Rise of Nations is probably one of the biggest and all encompassing RTSs I've played in ...