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Praise Be To Mars, Total War: Rome II Marches Onto PCs Next Year

It’s been eons — in gaming time, at least — since The Creative Assembly’s Roman variant of the Total War strategy games let millions of players become Caesars. A sequel’s finally been confirmed today and Total War: Rome II will be sporting a new graphics engine to make the global domination shinier than ever. You’ll get your chance to run the ancient world’s most powerful armies sometime next year.


Map Editor Gives Strategy Fans Total Control Of Total War: Shogun 2

For the first time in Total War history, fans can creatively assemble custom maps for Shogun 2 using the official level creator, aka The Editor.


Total War Battles Brings A PC’s War To The iPad

Sadly, you cannot play Creative Assembly’s Total War games on an iPad. What you can now do, though, is play an iPad game by the same developers, which has almost nothing in common with the series with which it shares a name, but is still worth a look.


Total War Developer’s Approach To Metacritic May Be ‘Brutal’ But It Works

In an interview with Gamasutra, Tim Heaton, the studio director of Total War developer Creative Assembly, described their development process as Metacritic-focused and “brutal”.


Limbs And Heads Fly Free In Total War: Shogun 2′s Rating-Changing Blood Pack

While Total War: Shogun 2 does an excellent job of depicting the titanic clash between two warring factions, it’s always been missing a little something to make the experience complete: Majestic arcs of spurting crimson lifeblood, and the odd severed head. All this and more can be yours for $US1.59.


America, France And Britain Ruin Everything In Total War: Shogun 2 — Fall Of The Samurai

Earlier this year The Creative Assembly took Total War: Shogun 2 players into the past with the Rise of the Samurai downloadable content. In March the company heads in the opposite direction with the standalone Fall of the Samurai expansion pack.


Oh Man, Somebody Is Making A Zelda: Total War Game

A team over at the Total War Center is making a mod for PC strategy classic Medieval 2: Total War that replaces the knights and pikemen of the vanilla game with the units and races from the universe of The Legend of Zelda.


Total War Goes Back To Japan With New Expansion

After a range of teeny little downloadable content packs, Creative Assembly’s Total War: Shogun 2 will next month be getting its first serious expansion, called Rise of the Samurai.


Total War Series Still Flirting With Consoles

Creative Assembly’s Total War series is one of the few remaining blockbuster franchises on the PC that is, at heart, a truly PC game. That hasn’t stopped the developers from exploring how the game would work on a console.


Shogun 2: Total War Returns To Japan In March

The bow monks have notched their arrows, the boats have been launched, and the footmen are stirring nervously in anticipation of the newly-revealed March release date for Sega’s Shogun 2: Total War.


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