Twelve articulated lorries were needed to ferry the PS5s from the airport’s cargo hub to distribution centres around the UK - with just four of the monster three-metre-wide pallets fitting in each truck. The game allows the user to act as the leader of an ancient civilization by advancing it through four ages (the Stone, Tool, Bronze, and Iron Ages. The game uses the Genie, a 2D sprite-based game engine. Korean Air Cargo’s Boeing 747 jet touched down at 2.30pm in London, stacked high with almost 50 pallets full of the gaming kit. Age of Empires (AoE) is a history-based real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft.
It originally took off from Tianjin in north-west China.
The consoles sell out as fast as they arrive with retailers - with no UK stores having stock last night.īut in a bid to placate gamers, jets weighing 100 tonnes have been specially chartered to get the PS5s here.Ī third dedicated cargo flight arrived at Heathrow on Flight KE9503 from Seoul yesterday. The rare devices - being flogged for £1,000 on eBay - are in desperately short supply and the company has struggled to get them to fans. Jumbo jet loaded with PS5 stock arrived at Heathrow
