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Age of Empires

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This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780735605695.

"Age of Empires: Inside Moves, Revised and Expanded Edition" enables players to deploy winning strategy gambits and tricks when playing "Age of Empires", one of the leading historical strategy games for the PC. The first edition of Microsoft's "Age of Empires: Inside Moves" has over 70,000 copies in print. Fully updated to cover "Age of Empires" patches and the brand new expansion pack, "Age of Empires: Inside Moves, Revised and Expanded Edition" now also includes expanded information about online play new chapters by designer Bruce Shelley have been added. Microsoft will be re-releasing "Age of Empires", along with the expansion pack, for Christmas 98, and this book will sim-ship with the software. Like other titles in the Inside Moves series, the book shows how to play the game over the Zone and gives tips on selecting the appropriate hardware for effective play.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

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About the author

Steven L. Kent

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Steven L. Kent is the author of the Rogue Clone series of Military Science Fiction novels as well as The Ultimate History of Video Games.

Born in California and raised in Hawaii, Kent served as a missionary for the LDS Church between the years of 1979 and 1981. During that time, he worked as a Spanish-speaking missionary serving migrant farm workers in southern Idaho.

While Kent has a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and a Master’s degree in communications from Brigham Young University, he claims that his most important education came from life.

He learned important lessons from working with farm laborers in Idaho. Later, from 1986 through 1988, Kent worked as a telemarketer selling TV Guide and Inc. Magazine. His years on the phone helped him develop an ear for dialog.

In 1987, Kent reviewed the Stephen King novels Misery and The Eyes of the Dragon for the Seattle Times. A diehard Stephen King fan, Kent later admitted that he pitched the reviews to the Times so that he could afford to buy the books.

In 1993, upon returning to Seattle after a five-year absence, Kent pitched a review of “virtual haunted houses” for the Halloween issue of the Seattle Times. He reviewed the games The Seventh Guest, Alone in the Dark, and Legacy. Not only did this review land Kent three free PC games, it started him on a new career path.

By the middle of 1994, when Kent found himself laid off from his job at a PR agency, he became a full-time freelance journalist. He wrote monthly pieces for the Seattle Times along with regular features and reviews for Electronic Games, CDRom Today, ComputerLife, and NautilusCD. In later years, he would write for American Heritage, Parade, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and many other publications. He wrote regular columns for MSNBC, Next Generation, the Japan Times, and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

In 2000, Kent self-published The First Quarter: A 25-year History of Video Games. That book was later purchased and re-published as The Ultimate History of Video Games by the Prima, Three River Press, and Crown divisions of Random House.

During his career as a games journalist, Kent wrote the entries on video games for Encarta and the Encyclopedia Americana. At the invitation of Senator Joseph Lieberman, Kent has spoken at the annual Report Card on Video Game Violence in Washington D.C.

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