Exciting news from GamesCom! The best-selling real-time strategy series of all time continues with Age of Empires Online! Join friends and friendly rivals from around the world as you create a living, growing online empire. Centered around your unique online capital city, embark on quests, play with or against friends, and immerse yourself in epic tales, quirky characters, adventure, history and strategy. Age of Empires Online will offer free-to-play experiences via Games for Windows - LIVE.
Signed up for the beta. This is a really good idea, the game looks awesome in that video on their website. I haven't played AoE since II but this looks really cool, I like the community aspect it appears to have.