Summary

Age of Empires and Blizzard's RTS offer a playbook for how to keep the nostalgia fires burning. The recent trend of announcing new expansions for older games—most notably Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 —makes total sense when you look at the long tail on some of yesterday's classics. Beloved games now have a tendency to stick around for so long that new blockbusters are fighting for their lives against perennial Steam favourites that look like they could've been released yesterday.

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