{"id":105543,"date":"2019-12-13T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/355475"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T17:29:00","slug":"chat-with-age-of-empires-ii-definitive-edition-lead-dev-bert-beeckman-at-3pm-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/13\/chat-with-age-of-empires-ii-definitive-edition-lead-dev-bert-beeckman-at-3pm-est\/","title":{"rendered":"Chat with Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition lead dev Bert Beeckman at 3PM EST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8217;90s reign of dominance in PC gaming is getting a full revisit this week! After streaming <em>MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries<\/em> on Wednesday, the GDC Twitch channel will be featuring an interview with <em>Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition<\/em> lead developer Bert Beeckman.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like <em>MechWarrior<\/em>, the <em>Age of Empires<\/em> franchise loomed large over the world of &#8217;90s PC gaming. And thanks to Beeckman and his colleagues at Forgotten Empires, the classic series has been remastered in new definitive editions that have launched for <em>Age of Empires I and I<\/em>I. Fresh on the heels of a new update, Beeckman will be discussing that remastering process today on the GDC Twitch channel at 3PM EST.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drop by and ask your questions for Beeckman about remastering older games in Twitch chat! And if you&#8217;d like to see more game developer interviews, be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitch.tv\/GDC\">follow the GDC Twitch channel.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s &#8217;90s reign of dominance in PC gaming is getting a full revisit this week! After streaming MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries on Wednesday, the GDC Twitch channel will be featuring an interview with Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition lead developer Bert Beeckman.&nbsp; Like MechWarrior, the Age of Empires franchise loomed large over the world of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}