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It’s the news you’ve been waiting for – we’re excited to say that Total War: ROME II is now officially available for pre-order. You can reserve your copy today by clicking here. We’ve also announced the game’s release date – September 3rd, 2013. Closer than you thought? Pre-order bonus We’re doing things a little bit [...]

Friends, Romans, people of West Coast USA, lend me your ears! How would you like to attend an exclusive community event in San Francisco for Rome II next week? How would you like to see the full Battle of Teutoburg demo from start to finish? How would you like to meet some of the key [...]

Good news for collectors – the very limited, one-print only Shogun 2 Gold Edition is available for preorder now! European and US versions vary in box design and contents, but here’s a look at what’s included in the European edition. *Contents vary by region – US version has different box design and contents. Please check [...]

Including the award-winning SHOGUN 2 (2011), plus its thrilling expansions Rise of The Samurai (2011) and Fall of The Samurai (2012), Total War SHOGUN 2 GOLD Edition is a stunning collection that contains the entire saga from start to finish, and features hundreds of hours of award-winning strategy gaming. North American Gold Edition Total War: [...]

Hey all,  it’s been a while since we updated the Total War Blog – and you might be wondering why? Well, we’ve been busy developing the Total War Wiki – a brand new destination full of rich imagery and information. We’ll be looking to host more and more great information on the Wiki in the [...]

As you may be aware, we released a brand new piece of DLC for Total War: Shogun 2 last week – the Saints and Heroes Elite Unit Pack. To answer any questions about what might be included, we created this handy guide! What is the Saints and Heroes DLC? A brand new downloadable content-pack for [...]

So, in the first episode of Rally Point, we mentioned that something new was coming from The Creative Assembly – something you’d not seen before – and we said we’d talk about it on May 18th. Well, we’ve decided to bring forward that announcement to give the community some time to digest what we’re doing [...]

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 [...]