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10-Min Long Total War Video Shows How to Play with your Dong
Controlling an Unwieldy Tyrant Creative Assembly has released a new 10-minute long let’s play video for Total War: Three Kingdoms. This time it focuses on the hideous tyrant Dong Zhuo. The large and imposing Dong Zhuo is a powerful military leader from the late 2nd century AD. He was even…
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Total War: Rome II ‘Rise of the Republic’ DLC Arrives August 9
Rise of the Republic Campaign Creative Assembly, creators of Total War: Rome II have announced a new campaign DLC for the game. The historical strategy game has been around since September 2013, and this is the 14th campaign pack DLC released. Unlike other campaign pack DLCs however, this one is…
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Creative Assembly Is Developing a New First-Person Shooter
Creative Assembly to release a new shooter. For me, Creative Assembly will always remind me of the Total War series. However, the truth is that this British video game developer has many more titles under its belt. In recent years, it released the highly acclaimed Alien Isolation title, and now,…
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Rise of the Tomb Kings DLC for Total War 2 Coming January 23
Warhammer: Total War 2 is getting a new DLC soon on January 23, 2018. Titled ‘Rise of the Tomb Kings’, the DLC brings in Legendary Lords, quest chains, and more. Rise of the Tomb Kings fits with the game’s Eye of the Vortex campaign as well as Mortal Empires. Unlike…
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Van Full of Total War: Warhammer 2 Collector’s Edition Robbed
Thieves made off with an unlikely haul in Milton Keynes earlier this week when they robbed a van full of Total War: Warhammer 2 Collector’s Edition units. The much anticipated turn-based strategy game is not out yet and is due for launch on September 28. The sequel promises much more…
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Total War: WH2 Trailer Shows Off Beautiful Epic Battle Maps
The sequel to Total War: Warhammer is nearing its September 28 release. For now, fans awaiting its arrival would just have to fantasize about staging epic battles until it is here. However, Sega and Creative Assembly want fans to get a bit of a glimpse into the epic landscapes they…
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Sega Announces Total War: WARHAMMER II
SEGA has just announced the second game in the Total War: WARHAMMER trilogy, namely Total War: WARHAMMER II. From what we gathered so far, the second installment in the Warhammer series will include four new races, namely Dark Elves, High Elves, Lizardmen, and a mysterious fourth race that has not been…
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Upcoming Halo Wars 2 Update Changelog Revealed
343 Industries and Creative Assembly have just blown the lid off their upcoming patch for Halo Wars 2. The game is already a lot of fun and offers some big improvements over the original, but it’s about to get a lot of fine tuning to make it even better. The…
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Total War: Arena Forges Alliance with Wargaming
Creative Assembly may have just made one of their best moves yet, taking their upcoming free-to-play game Total War: Arena to F2P specialists Wargaming in what is known as their Wargaming Alliance. With Wargaming housing a whopping 100 million players under their brand, they’ve got the industry might to push the…
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BBC Re-Launches Total War-Powered Game Show
BBC game show Time Commanders, which used a Total War-inspired game engine to allow competitors to re-enact historic battles, is returning for a third series after an eleven-year absence. The show would pit would-be commanders – usually a team of four, with two leaders and two lieutenants – against some…
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First Peek at Halo Wars 2 Open Beta
The first screenshots for the open beta build of Halo Wars 2 have leaked online. The game – sequel to 2009’s excellent real-time strategy Halo Wars, developed by the now-defunct Ensemble Studios – is being developed by Total War and Alien Isolation makers Creative Assembly. The following images from the…
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AMD Announces DX12 Game Engine Partnerships
One of the biggest changes DX12 brings to the table is the increased reliance on developers to properly optimize their code for GPUs. Unlike DX11, there will have fewer levers to tweak in the GPU driver, with more work being needed in the game engine and the game itself. To…
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See Alien Isolation’s First Incarnation as a Third-Person Sneak-em-Up
Creative Assembly, developer of last year’s Alien Isolation, held a post-mortem of the game at GDC, during which Creative Lead Alistair Hope revealed that for a time during the development process the game adopted a third-person perspective, even showing test footage to prove it. Hope discussed his team’s approach to…
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Alien Isolation Nominated for 6 BAFTAS; Gets New DLC
Creative Assembly’s 2014 triumph Alien Isolation, a video game sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic Alien, has dominated the BATFA video game nominations, being recognised in the Audio Achievement, Best Game, British Game, Game Design, Game Innovation, and Music categories. The nominations list was released by BAFTA today.…
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