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Last week we sent Will Porter to The Creative Assembly to find out about their forthcoming campaign DLC for Shogun 2. These are his findings.

Shogun 2 Total War wasn’t fascinating for its campaign map politics and tactical intricacies alone. To my mind – a mind squeezed through an entirely western-orientated educational cookie-cutter – a primary draw was olden-time Japan itself. My own historical knowledge has only ever been gently simmered by Henry VIII being miffed with the Pope, or perhaps Harold bullshitting William the Conqueror in the presence of some special bones, so for Shogun 2 to suddenly present those fabulous castles, that intricate history and that awesome array of weaponry was faintly mindblowing. Everything was just so alien, and alluring, to my closed-off western hemisphere brain. It was like stumbling across this incredible new universe on the scale of LOTR or Star Wars, but this one was somehow real.(more…)

Release notes:
- Balance changes made to the Heavy Gunner and Bulletproof Samurai units
- Art fix made for Daikyu Samurai
- Fixed bug that on occasions prevented players from declaring Ready when using the Matchmaking system

SEGA of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced 'Rise of the Samurai', the first downloadable campaign for the critically acclaimed Total War: SHOGUN 2 will be available on digital platforms from September...

#totalwar After a range of teeny little downloadable content packs, Creative Assembly's Total War: Shogun 2 will next month be getting its first serious expansion, called Rise of the Samurai. More »

LONDON & SAN FRANCISCO - SEGA Europe Ltd. and SEGA of America, Inc. today announced that new downloadable content for the critically acclaimed Total War: SHOGUN 2 will be available on Steam from today for $3.25...

Something called the Ikko Ikki Clan Pack has just been released for beautiful grand strategy game Total War: Shogun 2, adding a brand-new faction of warrior monks to the game, as well as new skill trees, a new Ikko-Ikki monk agent, eight new units, a new hero and more for the the price of $5. You can buy it here. I’m actually prepared to call it a fairly generous package, compared with the emaciated Babylon and Polynesia packs for Civilization V. Full feature list after the jump.(more…)

Graphics nuts now have a few more options to toy around with in Creative Assembly's sequel. The latest patch lets you enable a host of advanced features to enhance the visual experience, as well as makes a large number of fixes to the general gameplay. The fixes address the single-player and multiplayer portions of the game, from the audio to the naval combat to the interface. And, bonus, you get four new multiplayer maps. For the full patch notes, head over to the Steam update page...

Creative Assembly have released a second multiplayer tutorial video for Shogun 2. What’s that you say? You don’t remember our posting the first one? That doesn’t sound like us at all. But just to stop you from complaining, both are below. Warning: they can veer toward ‘wacky’.

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The Shogun 2 Multiplayer Tutorial continues as the customized warriors from Part I march toward victory.

The Creative Assembly have announced that a patch for Total War: Shogun 2 adding DirectX 11 support will… oh, what’s the point. You’ve already read the headline. A DirectX 11 patch will be released in the first week of May. Why are you even reading this? Hell, I bet nobody’s reading this. I bet I could fill it with nonsense and nobody would notice. The Creative Assembly announced today that they’re implementing an innovative new office policy of human sacrifice, inspired by the ancient Aztecs. Studio director Tim Heaton had this to say: “Ca yz tonoc in tiquauhtli in tocelutl! Auh in ticueie in tiuipile.” Does this mean we can look forward to Total War: Mexica? More on this as it develops.

LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO - SEGA Europe Ltd. and SEGA of America, Inc. today announced that the powerful in-game soundtrack for the critically acclaimed Total War title, Total War: SHOGUN 2 is now available in full on iTunes...

Mike and Dave return with an entire army ready to die for the love of their PC.

#video After the release of the Shogun Pack for Team Fortress 2—tied to the release of The Creative Assembly's Total War: Shogun 2—it didn't take long for the TF2 community to extract its true worth: recreating kung-fu movie and anime tropes like the high-flying mid-air sword fight. More »

Should you make Shogun 2 a part of your strategy? Find out how Total War's strategy sim stacks up in the GT Review!

#video Ninja are supposed to be cunning, smart and lethal. But some ninjas are anything but! More »

Jim’s already presented his robust review of Shogun 2, but why stop there? Why, indeed. Quinns has also been dropping hour after hour into this fathomless construction, like guppies into the mouth of a coy carp, and met up with Jim in the Talking Room of Castle Shotgun for a chat. (more…)

Breaking from the complexity of Empire: Total War, Creative Assembly trims things down for Shogun 2. It's not a revolutionary step, but a necessary one. It's a reaffirmation of Total War's core values. It's about armies charging forward waving spear and sword, clashing in the middle of vast battlefi...

The first blood has been drawn, and the war begins!

If you wanted to read a considered opinion on Total War: Shogun 2‘s single-player, followed by a throughful discussion by RPS readers, then you could read this. But I suppose the question now is: how good is their revamped and revised multiplayer offering? And I ask you: is anyone looking forward to that more than the single-player? Or is this one of those games where multi-player will be forever secondary? Questions!

#review While easily its most ambitious title to date, 2009's Empire: Total War was also a rather divisive game for fans of Creative Assembly's classic strategy series. Total War: Shogun 2 feels like a direct response to that. More »

Take a look at the new online multiplayer system in Shogun 2.

Shogun 2 is set to be released on the 15th of March. For the past week I’ve been playing the single-player campaign, and I’ve written up my thoughts on this below. What I haven’t done is play any of the multi-player. While Sega did provide a multiplayer test for press and other interested parties, I don’t really see the point of talking about it until there’s a live service. That should, all being well, arrive with the game’s launch on the 15th. We’ll take a look at it after that time.

So then: how do I get busy with that shogunate? (more…)

Team Fortress 2's offering Japan-themed hats and swords for all eight classes as part of a tie-in with Total War: Shogun 2, which is due for release next week. There are three ways to get the items. One, of course, is to preorder Shogun 2 on Steam. [Team Fortress 2] More »

Morning, my salty denizens of this divided and endless land we call PC gaming. Big Download‘s posted a couple of fun videos with some key members of Creative Assembly talking their way through each title in the Total War series. It’s quite fluffy PR, but there’s some subtext to chew on, too, especially with the developers talking about Empire- “We basically added a new, third game to Empire,” “In less than the time we created Rome,” “We were mental!”. Followed by some interesting discussion of real-life naval battles. Watch it below. (more…)

Take a look back across Total War's heritage with developers.

More retrospective knowledge across the history of Total War from a developer perspective.

Declare war to your heart's content in Shogun 2's multiplayer!

See if The Creative Assembly's return to Japan is as good as it looks on February 22, when a demo of Total War: Shogun 2 hits Steam, well in advance of the game's March 15 release date. More »

The lines between honor and victory get blurred in this CGI trailer for Shogun 2!