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2021

Dec 1, 2021 Unity November Showcase

Oct 14, 2021 Team Combat Playtest Sat 16 Oct 2021

Oct 7, 2021 New Combat UI Elements

Sep 16, 2021 Team Combat Playtest Sat 18 Sept 2021

Aug 26, 2021 Steam Playtest Sat 4 Sept 2021

May 15, 2021 Playtest Weekend Sat 15 May 2021 to Sun 16 May 2021

May 14, 2021 Version 0.9.827 Patchnotes

Feb 6, 2021 Playtest Weekend Sat 6 Feb 2021 to Sun 7 Feb 2021

Feb 5, 2021 Version 0.8.194 Patchnotes

Jan 9, 2021 Playtest Weekend Sat 9 Jan 2021 to Sun 10 Jan 2021

Jan 8, 2021 Version 0.7.113 Patchnotes

2020

Dec 16, 2020 Playtest Weekend Sat 19 Dec 2020 to Sun 20 Dec 2020

Nov 6, 2020 Shipbuilding Through Modular Design

Oct 7, 2020 Join us for our live-stream Steam playtests!

Sep 24, 2020 Open Alpha Playtest - Sept 26, 2020

Sep 22, 2020 Founder's Packs

Sep 10, 2020 Open Alpha Playtest - Sept 12, 2020

Sep 8, 2020 Design Philosophy - Aesthetics

Aug 27, 2020 Open Alpha Playtest - Aug 29, 2020

Aug 24, 2020 Coloring 3D Models in Age of Ascent

Aug 12, 2020 Open Alpha Playtest - Aug 15, 2020

Jul 13, 2020 Creating Age of Ascent's Models in Blender

Jul 1, 2020 Gameplay enhancements

Jun 23, 2020 Technical progress with Age of Ascent

Jun 15, 2020 The Art and Design Philosophy of Age of Ascent

2019

Feb 4, 2019 ASP.NET Core: Saturating 10GbE at 7+ million request/s

2018

Jan 26, 2018 Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1

2017

Nov 5, 2017 Corestart 2.0: What's new for performance in .NET Core 2.0

Apr 21, 2017 Building Games with Service Fabric

Mar 5, 2017 Azure Service Fabric – Brings More Power to Age of Ascent

2016

Nov 28, 2016 MVA: Service Fabric Patterns and Practices

Nov 23, 2016 A Journey of Optimization - The Saga of Ben's Magic Number

Nov 22, 2016 Microsoft MVP Summit 2016

Nov 17, 2016 The Future of .NET with Mads Torgersen, Rowan Miller, Immo Landwerth, David Fowler, Karen Ng

Nov 16, 2016 Live Q&A: .NET with Scott Hunter, Chris Sells (Google) and Hong-Seok (Samsung)

Sep 22, 2016 AoA Shout out in Azure Service Fabric Promo

May 16, 2016 Article: A Chat With the Creators of Age of Ascent, an Ultra-MMO Powered by the Cloud

Apr 27, 2016 Video: Ten reasons you’ll love Windows Server 2016: Nano Server

Apr 18, 2016 Age of Ascent Build Conference News Roundup!

Apr 10, 2016 Service Fabric State Resiliency Considerations

Apr 9, 2016 Article: Microsoft at Build: 10 Spoken and Unspoken Messages

Apr 5, 2016 Video: Microsoft Cloud Allows Age of Ascent To Handle 50,000 Players in Same Battle

Apr 5, 2016 Article: Microsoft Azure cloud services tuck ops under the covers

Apr 2, 2016 Video: Gaming at Cloud Scale with James Niesewand and Ben Adams

Apr 2, 2016 Video: Age of Ascent at the Microsoft Build 2016 Keynote Presentation

Apr 2, 2016 Video: Age of Ascent at the Azure Service Fabric for Developers presentation

Mar 27, 2016 Article: How Microsoft is giving its customers ‘a slap in the face, but in a good way’

Feb 18, 2016 ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served Per Second

Feb 6, 2016 Release Notes Feb 6, 2016

Jan 9, 2016 Podcast: Inside Age of Ascent with Ben Adams

2015

Dec 4, 2015 Release Notes Dec 5, 2015

Nov 7, 2015 Release Notes Nov 7, 2015

Sep 5, 2015 Release notes Sept 5, 2015

Aug 14, 2015 Reduce node_modules recursion and long paths for ASP.NET 5

Aug 11, 2015 Using Gulp to Add UTF8 BOM for Windows 10 Javascript Apps

Aug 8, 2015 Release notes Aug 8, 2015

Jul 25, 2015 Adventures in High Speed Networking on Azure

Jun 13, 2015 Release notes June 13, 2015

May 16, 2015 Release notes May 16, 2015

May 8, 2015 Microsoft Azure: Demo and Case Study: Age of Ascent

Apr 3, 2015 Release notes Apr 4, 2015

Mar 31, 2015 A case study of how Microsoft Azure helps Age of Ascent!

Mar 21, 2015 Release notes Mar 21, 2015

Mar 6, 2015 Release notes Mar 7, 2015

Mar 6, 2015 Release notes Feb 21, 2015

Mar 3, 2015 Level Up episode 4: Illyriad Games' James Niesewand, CEO and Founder

Feb 6, 2015 Release notes Feb 7, 2015

2014

Dec 14, 2014 Indie Dev Podcast episode 17 featuring the Illyriad Games team!

Dec 13, 2014 Release notes Dec 13, 2014

Nov 15, 2014 Release notes Nov 15, 2014

Oct 4, 2014 Release notes October 4, 2014

Sep 18, 2014 Release notes September 20, 2014

Sep 6, 2014 Release notes September 6, 2014

Aug 23, 2014 Release notes August 23rd, 2014

Aug 10, 2014 Latest patch notes adds dynamic music, more

Jul 25, 2014 Release Notes July 26, 2014

Jul 12, 2014 Release Notes July 12, 2014

Jul 11, 2014 Kill Screen interviews our CEO and checks out Age of Ascent

Jul 10, 2014 Gamer Headlines says it's time to stop hating Microsoft thanks to AoA

Jul 9, 2014 SegmentNext discusses Age of Ascent's 100,000 possibilities

Jul 8, 2014 Official Xbox Magazine covers Age of Ascent

Jun 28, 2014 Release Notes June 28, 2014

Jun 14, 2014 Release Notes June 14, 2014

Jun 7, 2014 Release Notes June 7, 2014

May 31, 2014 Release Notes May 31, 2014

May 24, 2014 Release Notes May 24, 2014

May 17, 2014 Release Notes May 17, 2014

May 13, 2014 Interview with Develop Magazine

May 10, 2014 Release Notes May 10, 2014

May 6, 2014 xMMORPG review

May 6, 2014 Practical Chrome review

May 6, 2014 MMORPG.com review

May 3, 2014 Release Notes May 3, 2014

May 2, 2014 Age of Ascent developer blog: GM Stew's video interview!

Apr 19, 2014 Release Notes April 19, 2014

Apr 18, 2014 Age of Ascent developer blog: the Tactical Map

Apr 11, 2014 Age of Ascent developer blog: the setting!

Apr 10, 2014 Check out the latest UI upgrade!

Apr 7, 2014 "Why Age of Ascent Matters" — check the blog out here!

Apr 5, 2014 Age of Ascent on the front page of SpaceSimCentral!

Apr 4, 2014 Backstory: Timeline to Ascent

Mar 12, 2014 Backstory: Troll Market

Mar 11, 2014 Windows Phone Central Covers World Record Attempt

Mar 11, 2014 Indie Game Magazine Reports on Age of Ascent

Mar 11, 2014 Backstory: Too Late

Mar 10, 2014 Backstory: Green

Mar 9, 2014 Backstory: Friends

Mar 8, 2014 Backstory: Dung Beetle

Mar 8, 2014 Age of Ascent Developer Q&A Video

Mar 7, 2014 PC Gamer Reports on AoA Guinness Attempt

Mar 7, 2014 James Niesewand on Super Gamer Podcast

Mar 7, 2014 Backstory: Many Bodied

Mar 7, 2014 Alpha Beta Gamer Reports on Age of Ascent

Mar 3, 2014 Frequently Asked Questions

Mar 1, 2014 Massively Interview with James Niesewand

2013

Jun 28, 2013 Microsoft Ubelly Interview

Jun 27, 2013 Age of Ascent Website is Live!

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