Why the Pentagon’s probably drooling over the upcoming Age of Empires 4 launch

Microsoft, a company with numerous military contracts, has brazenly admitted it intends to train an artificial intelligence agent to become “unbeatable” by humans in war simulations. Feel free to run amok in a fugue state of panic at your own discretion, but I should point out it’s for a video game. Of course, that doesn’t really make it any less scary. Up front: an upcoming real-time strategy game titled Age of Empires 4 is set to release on Xbox Game Pass at the end of