Leading the project is Shannon Loftis, who secured the job five years ago after she told her bosses it was time for Microsoft to take computer games more seriously. As Loftis tells it, she “begged” to oversee work on rebooting Age of Empires, a franchise that dates back to the 1990s.Īlthough the Xbox and related content account for most of Microsoft’s $15 billion in annual game revenue, Loftis saw an opportunity.
