Age of Empires
Age of Empires is a series of historical real-time strategy video games, originally developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The first title of the series was "Age of Empires", released in 1997. Seven titles and three spin-offs have been released.
Jade Empire
"Jade Empire" was developed by BioWare, after it earned critical and commercial success with "Baldur's Gate", "Neverwinter Nights" and "", RPGs based on pre-existing "Dungeons & Dragons" and "Star Wars" fictional universes. The game, which began development in May 2001, was the company's first original RPG intellectual property. The concept of "Jade Empire" had existed with company founders co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk since they started BioWare alongside the plan which would lead to "Baldur's Gate"; called a "dream project", their aim was to fulfill player fantasies of becoming a powerful martial arts master. The game was first developed and released for the Xbox. Zeschuk later felt they should have held the game back and developed it for the console's successor the Xbox 360.