Next week, you will be able to download and keep Total War: Shogun 2.
]]>Seven of the modern Total War games are available to play for free this weekend on Steam.
]]>Total War: Shogun 2 will be released for Mac this spring, Feral Interactive has announced. You can pre-order the Mac version of the strategy title from Creative Assembly through here. Shogun 2 will contain the additional content packs released for PC including the Rise of the Samurai Campaign DLC pack. The announcement video is below.
]]>A trailer for Total War: Shogun 2 – Gold Edition has been released by SEGA and The Creative Assembly. Alongside the core game, the Gold Edition includes the expansions Rise of The Samurai and Fall of The Samurai. North American strategy aficionados can pick the edition up at retail on March 5 while those in Europe and Australia can purchase it on March 8. In the later regions, Total War: Shogun 2 – Gold Edition includes all three titles plus all released downloadable content excluding the Blood Pack.
]]>Total War Shogun 2: Gold Edition, which is comprised of the core game along with the expansions Rise of The Samurai and Fall of The Samurai, is now available in North American retail stores. The European and Australian version will release at retail on March 8. You'll find a couple of celebratory new screens through the break.
]]>SEGA has announced Total War: Shogun 2 - Gold Edition will release in March. The pack includes the Rise of The Samurai and Fall of The Samurai expansions. It will be made available at retailers from March 5 in North America and in Europe and Australia March 8. The package in the later regions will include all three titles plus all released downloadable content excluding the Blood Pack. Pack shots are below.
]]>The Otomo Clan Pack for Total War: Shogun 2 is now available for download through Steam, The Creative Assembly and SEGA have announced.
]]>Total War: Shogun 2 developer The Creative Assembly is to release a new DLC pack that is available to pre-order now. The DLC lets you play as the Otomo clan and take advantage of new unit types. More details below.
]]>Total War: Shogun 2 has fully embraced the modding community with a new Assembly Kit.
]]>SEGA has announced the new elite unit pack for Total War: Shogun 2, is available for download.
]]>The Creative Assembly has issued a title update for Total War: Shogun 2 which is full of delights like more translations and improved lighting, but the best bit is probably a handful of tweaks designed to prevent desync issues when playing multiplayer campaigns. No more getting 100 turns in and wanting to put your fist through the monitor - hopefully. Visit Steam for the full patch notes.
]]>SEGA has announced the availability of the Total War modding tool. The Editor enables modders to "create their own custom maps," for multiplayer and custom VS AI battles across Shogun 2 and its Fall of The Samurai expansion. The Editor is completely free, and accessible now to Shogun 2 and Fall of The Samurai owners via the Tools section of their Steam library. Check out shots of it below.
]]>SEGA has announced the Dragon War Battle Pack for Total War: SHOGUN 2 which consists of six battles from the Boshin War, depicting the campaign of Saigo Takamori, is now available. Previously only available through the Fall of the Samurai expansion, the pack can now be accessed in the original game.
]]>SEGA has sent over a batch of lovely shots for Fall of the Samurai, the stand-alone expansion to Total War: Shogun 2, which released yesterday. It includes six new playable clans, new foreign powers, a new 19th century Japan campaign map with the island of Ezo, railways, 39 new land units, 10 new naval unit types with a total of 21 ships, new port siege battle type and land/sea interactions, campaign map bombardments, 3 new agent types, improved siege battle mechanics, upgradable tower defenses, and multiplayer 2.0. Lots of stuff. Get it from the SEGA shop or Steam.
]]>Sega has sent over a neat infographic showing just how popular Total war: Shogun 2 is - just in time to hype you for the launch of its stand alone expansion.
]]>Today is a pretty good day to be a member of The Creative Assembly.
]]>Here's the third part of The Creative Assembly's reveal trailer for Fall of the Samurai, the upcoming, stand-alone expansion to Total War: Shogun 2.
]]>SEGA has announced it's to make some of its PC games available on EA's Origin, starting with Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai which is now available for pre-order on the service. In addition, Team 17 Software, Rebellion, and Kalypso Media Digital have also signed on with the service, which brings Origin's total partners to 35. Titles from the aforementioned studios will be released in the "coming months."
]]>Sega has released a new video for Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai. It's part 2 of what the firm is calling a reveal trailer. It's posted below, along with part 1 in case you missed it earlier this month. It's out on March 23. Thanks, EvilAvatar.
]]>Sega's rolled out a video of upcoming Shotgun 2 expansion Fall of the Samurai, featuring behind-the-scenes footage of work being done on the game from inside Creative Assembley, new gameplay and more. Get it after the break. Get Brenna's recent impressions of the standalone expansion from a recent Sydney event here.
It's out March 23.
]]>Sega’s announced its standalone expansion pack, Fall of the Samurai for Total War: Shogun 2, will be released on March 23. It’s to include six new playable clans who will need to “deal with” the foreign powers of America, Britain and France, as well as fighting against domestic factions. It also includes an improved campaign map, new building and technology trees, the introduction of railways and naval bombardments, along with ten new ships, one of which is an Ironclad class battleship and another in the way of torpedo boats. It also contains 30 new units along with the lovely Gatling gun. New shots are below.
]]>If you can handle a little historical heartbreak this early in the morning, check out this new trailer for the latest Total War: Shogun 2 stand-alone expansion, ominously titled Fall of the Samurai.
]]>SEGA has announced the third and fourth items of downloadable content for Total War: Shogun 2, The Hattori Clan and Blood Pack, are now available for download.
]]>Some nice new nuggets hit PSN and XBL, Steam and Kinect today Get the pertinent details below the break. Decisions, decisions.
]]>SEGA and The Creative Assembly have released a video for Rise of the Samurai, the Total War: Shogun 2 DLC slated for September. The DLC is set 400 years before the Sengoku period in Shogun 2, where players will lead one of six playable clans from the Taira, Minamoto and Fujiwara families during the Gempei War. It contains both single and multiplayer modes, and will run you $9.99. Thanks, EvilAvatar.
]]>SEGA and The Creative Assembly have announced Total War: Shogun 2 will be receiving a new DLC campaign this September through digital outlets called Rise of the Samurai.
]]>The Creative Assembly has trotted out the first DLC pack for Total War: Shogun 2. If you doubt the existence of ass-kicking nuns, look herein with your very own eyeballs.
]]>The Creative Assembly has a patch for Total War: Shogun 2 going live on Monday, and just in case it slipped your mind, we'd like to remind you about it. Now that we have done our duty in that respect, you should also know it contains DirectX 11 support and other goodies.
]]>It can't all be doom, gloom, and the PSN being hacked. Sometimes it's tiny, cheerful (and occasionally stupid) nuggets of news.
]]>That's the word from the community manager on the Total War forum. He's also "The Creative Assembly Lieutenant', so it's best not to argue.
]]>Shogun 2 reviews are starting to go live, and we're pulling them all into one post for you.
]]>Total War: Shogun 2's senior community manager, Craig Laycock, has offered up some nice details on the game, especially pertaining to the game's multiplayer, map and modding possibilities.
]]>Following on from the overview, Sega has produced a tutorial for Total War: Shogun 2's multiplayer.
]]>There's tons of little stuff hitting the Internet to browse through, but because we love you so dearly, we've done the work for you. Now, where's our thank you kiss? Ah, there it is. Good boys. You've been trained well.
]]>Sega and The Creative Assembly have released another double-barrelled developer diary for Total War: Shogun 2, turning the focus from the series' past to its future.
]]>Sega's released two new diaries for Total War: Shogun 2, as it preps for launch in two weeks.
]]>Sega's confirmed that Total War: Shogun 2 will get a Steam demo on February 22, along with some pre-order bonuses as well.
]]>Sega's released a new three minute video for Total War: Shogun 2. Catch it after the break.
]]>SEGA has released a new gameplay trailer for Shogun 2: Total War.
]]>SEGA's being showing off the latest Shogun 2 gameplay on Gamespot's video magazine show, On the Spot.
]]>Sega's put out an excellent campaign video for Shogun 2, showing the turn-based map elements, real-time combat and political cut-scenes.
]]>The number of little dudes running around on screen in Total War: Shogun 2 is enough to make your GPU consider installing air conditioning this summer, but the Creative Assembly has just announced its minimum and recommended system requirements and surprisingly, they're reasonably modest.
]]>Despite a listing popping up on UK retailer Game's website, Sega's told VG247 a 360 version of Total War: Shogun 2 isn't in the works.
]]>Sega just announced its Shogun 2 pre-order incentives for the UK, detailing where to buy and what you'll get if you charge in early.
]]>Creative Assembly's Shogun 2 will have the words Total War in front of the title, as the developer and SEGA wanted the series name to come first.
]]>SEGA has announced an official release date for Shogun 2: Total War.
]]>Sega's released an all-new story trailer of Shogun II: Total War. Get it after the break.
]]>Developer Creative Assembly has received plenty of kudos for its Total War series. It's also received its fair share of flak in recent games for bugs and the quality - or lack thereof - of the game's AI.
No longer, apparently.
]]>The latest Shogun 2 screens have shown off the game's map sections, and very pretty they are too.
]]>Double the amount of body parts per unit. Flaming arrows. "Human" AI. Is this the game you'd hoped it would be? It seems likely.
]]>Some new Shogun 2: Total War shots just went up, showing off some Japanese men murdering each other and some kind of straw boat. It's all go.
]]>Sega's released a new trailer of Shogun 2: Total War. Get it after the break.
]]>Sega's just confirmed to VG247 that last night's rumours of the firm missing gamescom are true.
]]>According to a report tonight from German fansite SegaStuff, the publisher will skip gamescom next month.
]]>Sega's formally announced Shogun 2: Total War after earlier leaks and a a more official hands-on report of the game going live last night.
]]>Looks like the fact sheet leaked this morning for Shogun 2: Total War was nothing more than a sheet of paper compared to what IGN got its hands on.
That, being the game, basically.
]]>That bunch of unofficial Shogun 2 detail that got deleted from a forum last week? It's here.
]]>That Total War game that looks like it's heading for an LA reveal in two weeks time? Yeah, not so much of a secret anymore, it seems.
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