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We’ve revealed the box art for Total War: Shogun 2 – Fall of the Samurai! We want to know what you think of it. Let us know in the comments.   **** The end of the Samurai era, the dawn of an empire. Fall of the Samurai is the standalone expansion to the award winning [...]

For our next bit of Shogun 2 DLC, we’ve decided to do something a little bit different… We’ve often said before that blood is something we’d like to do if we feel the setting’s right and it’s appropriate. That’s always been hindered by a key hurdle: inserting blood and gore into our games would raise [...]

Well, we said we’d have some news coming “soon”, and here it is! We’re delighted to announce a brand new standalone expansion for Total War: Shogun 2. Fall of the Samurai is a huge piece of new content and it’s coming March 2012. The scale of this expansion is significantly larger than anything we’ve produced [...]

It’s that time of year again – the Golden Joysticks have come around, and this year we’re thrilled to say we’ve been nominated in two major categories! We’re up for Best Strategy Game and Ultimate Game of the Year, both incredible accolades that we’re amazingly proud of. If you’re keen for us to win, you [...]

As I’m sure you’re all undoubtedly aware (else we’re clearly not doing our jobs properly!), Rise of the Samurai is out TODAY on Steam. Keep checking your games list – it’ll be going live later this afternoon UK time. In the run-up to this exciting day, we invited a very select group of some of [...]

  We’ve announced a release date for Rise of the Samurai, so take out your calligraphy set, open your calendar and mark the date…  27th September! Set 400 years before the Sengoku period depicted in Shogun 2, Rise of the Samurai pits you as the leader of one of six playable clans from the Taira, Minamoto [...]

  Keen-eyed followers of upcoming DLC “Rise of the Samurai” may have noticed a few differences to the main Shogun 2 campaign map. Our artists have been beavering away at crafting a different experience for the new campaign, which is set some 400 years before the main game. As well as tweaking elements of the [...]

It’s a familiar scene. While we’re busily working away on Total War, perhaps over a cup of tea, someone starts playing a video featuring one of our games. Before you know it there’s a crowd of people checking out the cool stuff playing. Our community seem to have really taken making movies in Total War to their [...]

This week sees the release of TWClan: Shogun 2 Edition – a new Android app. Developed in his spare time by “Teknogrebo” (real name hidden to protect the innocent), one of the development team responsible for Total War: Shogun 2, the app features a clan and leaderboard server browser for the game. Mark O’Connell (SenseiTW) [...]