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Today we’ll be launching the Dragon War Battle Pack, a complete suite of historical battles for the award-winning Total War: SHOGUN 2. The Dragon War Battle Pack consists of six consecutively-played legendary battles from the Boshin War, depicting the campaign of Saigo Takamori. Previously only available in the “Fall of the Samurai” expansion, they can [...]

Here at The Creative Assembly, we’ve always embraced new ideas and innovations. With the original Shogun: Total War, we combined campaign gameplay with real-time battles to create a whole new genre. Ever-mindful of that spirit of adventure, we’ve just released Total War Battles: SHOGUN – a brand new tactical handheld game designed to bring a [...]

Hello modders! For Fall of the Samurai, we’ve made a number of changes to the savegame and startpos formats (chiefly compression) in order to optimise them and reduce their size. An unfortunate side effect of this that we’ve identified is that community-generated modding tools to read these files will no longer function. We’re really keen [...]

Hi all, So, as you may be aware, myself (CraigTW) and Studio Communications Manager Al Bickham have been flying around the world over the past couple of weeks chatting to journalists and letting them get hands-on with Fall of the Samurai for themselves. Some of the press coverage is now starting to hit for that, [...]

We’re delighted to say that Total War: Shogun 2 has brought home a raft of prestigious awards in the end-of-year round-ups, which the team here at CA are absolutely ecstatic about. Here’s the full run down of what we’ve won just in the past few days.   *** PC Gamer “Game of the Year” Awards, [...]

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 [...]