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Napoleon: Total War Announced by Creative Assembly

Creative Assembly has announced that it is working on a new strategy title, called Napoleon: Total War, which is set to offer players a chance to step into the well polished boots of the great general and fight their way to greatness just as he did, using the armies and the tactics of the beginning of the XIX century...

24 August 2009
16:11 GMT

Elite Units of the West Available for Empire: Total War

Quietly and in the shadow of the newest patch, dubbed 1.3, Creative Assembly put together and released the first downloadable content pack for Empire: Total War. It is called Elite Units of the West and can be bought via the Steam service from Valve for the equivalent of 3.99 dollars. The DLC offers 14 new units that...

23 June 2009
10:51 GMT

Empire: Total War Gets Optimization Patch, New Units

Creative Assembly and SEGA are announcing that, on Monday, players will be able to get a new patch for Empire: Total War, which will offer quite a lot of fixes and improvements, alongside new units. The update will be delivered, as all Empire-targeted content, via Valve's Steam, and the update will come when you...

19 June 2009
16:21 GMT

Next Empire: Total War Patch Will Update Game Balance and A.I.

Empire: Total War has had quite a rough ride. When the game was released, because of the lack of pre-loading on Steam, the servers where overwhelmed and players had to wait in order to authenticate and play their games.After release, the game suffered from a variety of bugs, which Creative Assembly worked pretty hard...

9 April 2009
18:21 GMT

Details Offered on the Next Empire: Total War Patch

Empire: Total War is a great title. The reasons are well explained in our review of the game. The same review mentions the fact that many players experience a lot of bugs, most of them related to Crash To Desktops, which happen when clicking on some units or structures. Until now, Creative Assembly and SEGA have put ...

25 March 2009
14:11 GMT

Weekend Reading: My Empire: Total War Defeats

I love Total War games. I did so from the moment I first saw Shogun and understood the beauty of marrying tactical battles, which looked and moved gorgeous for the time when the game was released, with the management options of the strategic level.I questioned the move to 3D strategic maps in Rome, but eventually I u...

21 March 2009
06:21 GMT

Empire: Total War

One could argue that there are two significantly different periods in the history of the Total War series, as created by Creative Assembly: there are the first two games, Shogun and Medieval, where the strategic map is more of an excuse for players to get into the innovative (at that time) and beautiful tactical batt...

20 March 2009
06:11 GMT

Empire Total War: Tactical Analysis of Ground Battles

I said in the previous article dealing with Empire: Total War that long time players of the series made by The Creative Assembly had been asking for two gameplay elements to be improved in Empire, especially when looking at what Rome: Total War and Medieval 2: Total War offered. The two areas were the tactical Artifi...

12 March 2009
19:01 GMT

Empire Total War: The Reverse Bait and Switch

When Empire: Total War was initially announced by Creative Assembly, die hard fans of the series were glad and threads on fan sites like Total War Center asked two things from the developer: better Artificial Intelligence in the battles and better diplomacy. In fact, since Shogun, the game has been affected by variou...

10 March 2009
19:11 GMT

Weekend Reading: Launch Day Issues for Empire: Total War

The biggest release of the week that has passed has been Empire: Total War. The game, created by Creative Assembly and published by SEGA, is continuing the Total War formula of offering a mix of turn based strategy on a global level, while allowing the player to get down and dirty in real time battles putting two arm...

7 March 2009
06:31 GMT

Multiplayer Campaign for Empire: Total War Will Get a Public Beta

Empire: Total War has been released today and even now players all over the world are taking a first hand look at the strategy game that aims to simulate combat, diplomacy, trade and espionage in the XVIII century. The developers from Creative Assembly are talking about how the multiplayer campaign, which was promise...

4 March 2009
04:57 GMT

Combating Piracy Is Pointless, Says Stormrise Developer

Piracy has and will be a very hot topic for the gaming industry. Despite the big number of measures that developers and publishers resort to in order to keep their titles away from the hands of pirates, sooner or later things go out of their reach and into the large file sharing networks across the world, where every...

2 March 2009
02:48 GMT

Empire: Total War Demo Now Available on Steam

SEGA and Creative Assembly, the publisher and the developer of Empire: Total War, have partnered up with Valve in order to use Steam to deliver the demo for the strategy title that is set to arrive in stores, and on Steam, at the beginning of March.If you have the Steam client installed and a valid account, you can l...

23 February 2009
16:51 GMT

Empire: Total War Finally Deploying on March 3

All grand strategy players in the world became a bit worried when, in December, Creative Assembly announced that it would delay the release of Empire: Total War to March, the game being expected to arrive in February. Games in the Total War series have a nasty history of shipping with bugs (although they are usually ...

28 January 2009
04:19 GMT

Coming Attractions: Empire: Total War

Some people watching the videogames industry say that 2008 was not a great year, certainly not on par with 2007 and its late year releases of Portal, BioShock and Call of Duty: Modern War. And to some, 2009 seems even bleaker, with less than usual high profile titles announced and with an outlook threatened by the wo...

9 January 2009
18:21 GMT

Stormrise Will Win Over Stategy Gamers with Unique Control Scheme

When Creative Assembly announced its plans to create a console real time strategy title called Stormrise, a lot of people were skeptical. After all, the developer has a lot of experience with creating the Total War series, but until now, no one has been able to deliver a console RTS as popular as those on the PC...

9 January 2009
16:51 GMT

Empire Total War Delayed to March

SEGA, the publisher, and Creative Assembly, the developer, say that Empire: Total War will not be released on the initially announced date of February 3, 2009. Due to unknown reasons, the strategy title has been pushed back at least a month to sometime in March 2009. The delay will probably be exactly one month but t...

29 December 2008
18:01 GMT

New Features Revealed for Empire: Total War

One of the 2009 games I am most interested in is Empire: Total War, the latest entry into the long running series made by Creative Assembly. Ever since the first game they launched, Shogun, the developers have managed to create a mix of turn based and real time strategy, of big battles and strategy, which appeals to ...

10 December 2008
18:01 GMT

Empire Total War Is Steam Powered

Empire: Total War is the fifth video game in the long running grand strategy franchise from Creative Assembly which is now published by SEGA. The developers are saying that the online play component of the game will be handled via the new Steamworks service offered by Valve.  This means that online empire buildi...

30 October 2008
13:21 GMT

Wishlist: Modern Day: Total War

Rome: Total War, with the excellent Europa Barbarorum mod, is still installed on my hard drive and getting plenty of my limited play time. Medieval 2: Total War was appealing, but overplaying the original Medieval when it came out meant that I wasn't as interested in the remake. Shogun got me interested in tacti...

3 October 2008
22:01 GMT

Creative Assembly Talks about Total War

Creative Assembly is not a stranger to console development. Unfortunately, its video games, like Spartan: Total Warrior and Viking: Battle for Asgard, were less than stellar and certainly, their quality was well below that of the beloved Total War series, which, for now, is only available on the PC. But could a Total...

25 September 2008
19:21 GMT

Stormrise Gets Demoed by Hardcore Gamer

What better way to make sure that your game gets interest from hardcore players than to hire a hardcore player to look at the game and then say something nice about it? That's the approach that SEGA and Creative Assembly have recently used at the Leipzig Games Convention as they brought in Sanatana Mishra, who h...

26 August 2008
14:11 GMT

Stormrise Gets Detailed at E3

Even as Stormrise was announced, the guys at SEGA offered people going to E3 a sneak peek at the pre-alpha version of the game that the people at Creative Assembly have put together in the last three years, while also doing work on other projects, like Rome: Total War and Medieval 2: Total War. We now know a bit more...

24 July 2008
18:06 GMT

More Details Emerge Regarding Naval Engagements in Empire: Total War

Not much of Empire: Total War has been showed until now. Creative Assembly was more keen on talking about its new project Stormrise at E3, but some people got to see the next Total War in action. In an interesting twist, the developers have so far refused to show any footage detailing the ground combat in the game, d...

22 July 2008
19:06 GMT

Creative Assembly Preparing Stormrise

SEGA is delivering news that developer Creative Assembly is working on a strategy title for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The game, which is developed by the Australian studio of CA, is called Stormrise and will be set in a post-apocalyptic future where two factions need to fight for resources.The console-focus...

14 July 2008
19:36 GMT

Empire: Total War Details Duel Mechanic

The Total War series has been successful because of the way it managed to use technology to re-create some of the most interesting conflicts in the history of mankind. When the first game in the series, Shogun, which now seems crude and limited, arrived, it managed to really make the player believe that he was a Japa...

27 May 2008
09:40 GMT

Empire: Total War Takes on Napoleonic Warfare

I must confess to harboring a deep love for all things related to Total War. From Shogun to Medieval 2 I've played them all, I've suffered until the patches brought out the potential of the games and played some extraordinary mods coming out of the community. So, no game of 2008 (begone, Starcraft II and GT...

23 April 2008
09:10 GMT


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