Links

Official Sites
Ensemble Studios The developer of Age of Empires, the Rise of Rome Expansion Pack, and of course, Age of Kings. Daily news is posted by webmaster Mike "Archangel" McCart, making it a great visit.
Microsoft Games' Age of Kings Site Here is the offical site for Age of Kings info from its publisher, Microsoft. Look for a lot of basic info here.

Multiplayer Services
Battlestats With 20,000 total members, Battlestats isn't the Zone...which some people may come to love. This upcoming site hosts "Wars", Tourneys, and Ladders. Check it out.
GameSpy Arcade GameSpy Arcade requires a one time fee of 20$. Sounds worth it: "GameSpy Arcade is your arcade for the Internet -- more than 160 supported games, from the hottest games and mods, like Quake III Arena, Counter-Strike and Baldur's Gate 2, to classics like Monopoly, Risk and Chess."
MSN Zone Boasts 3 million members, and 50 games to play. The official mulitplayer service for Age of Kings.

Design Teams
Black Mountain Productions Black Mountain Productions is a small design group that, rather than focusing on creating projects together, instead concentrates on interactivity between members, with members involved in playtesting, online gaming and brainstorming. A library is being developed on various aspects of Age of Kings gaming design for upload soon.
Blackstorm Inventions Blackstorm Inventions is a small but steadily growing design team which was founded by three members of Woad Creations. They design for a variety of games including Age of Empires, Age of Kings, Stronghold and Age of Mythology.
Dragon Gaming Design Network The Dragon Gaming Design Network is a scenario design team that's currently open to all games, including Age of Kings, Age of Mythology, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, and Stronghold. The team has been together since May 2000, making it one of the oldest teams for AoK. Their AoK-related resources include a large collection of design articles as well as a growing projects section.
Empire Mayhem Design EMD is a design team devoted to designing scenarios for Age of Empires II: The Conquerors of the highest standard. Join us today and start creating the best scenarios you will ever play or download one of our existing ones, go on, you know you want to!
Latin Design Team The LDT is a spanish-spoken team, founded early in 2000. Right now, the team has projects for different games such as AoK:TC, AoM:TT, SWBG, and Empires. Plus it has a RPG Maker section. It also has a large library of articles about designing in the same games. For AoK:TC, the LDT has more than ten full-playable finished proyects. Three of them in the Best of AoKHeaven Blacksmith.
Tsunami Studios The erasure of the status quo for scenario design was never announced. Tsunami Studios started designing scenarios in the early ages, units marching into realtime. Soon they were into transformative strategies; conquering Asia, and renting Egyptian sunlight to medieval empires. Now scenarios seem to be designing themselves, and our random map scripters have started speaking Tibetan.
Woad Creations One of the larger teams, Woad Creations designs for a wide variety of strategy games and has already released 50 projects, but also boasts a considerable article section. Though the emphasis is on design, they also like to play multiplayer maps together, which adds to the community feel.

Fan Sites
BsKZone BsKZone is the site to go to for brand new expert recorded games.
FOPT Clan FOPT is a clan mostly known for their excellent tourneys and clan ranking list. They've been around for a longer while and are well respected within the community.
Planet Age of Empires Planet Age of Empires isn't an active site on Age of Kings, but it still has a few good to read articles.

International Fansites
ESGL ESGL (European Strategy Gamers League) is the first and biggest European RTS-League.