- The guy responsible for the whole battle engine in Total War since Rome 1 had 'never worked writing game code' when he got the assignment - 5 December 2025
Ever felt lost at sea in the first days of a new job? I'll admit it—my first weeks at PC Gamer, I had no idea what I was doing (some might say that's still the case). I was just trying to keep my head above water and not publish anything libellous, or at least nothing both libellous and unfunny... Read more.
- The TV show based on Total War was tricking us all along: 'It's kind of embarrassing, but it's television' - 5 December 2025
It's taken a long time for TV adaptations of videogames to get, you know, actually good. Now we've got The Last of Us, Arcane and Fallout all showing off. Back in 2005, though, we just had Time Commanders... Read more.
- Total War: ROME REMASTERED is OUT NOW! - 29 April 2021
Total War: ROME REMASTERED is out now! Soldiers of Rome! Grab your pilum and tighten your armour, it's time to take back your Empire! ⚔️ 🛡 Will you make the Senate proud or will you crush the eternal city? https://store.steampowered.com/app/885970 Make those Gauls and Romans even shinier in glorious 4K with the free Enhanced Graphics pack: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1419050/Total_War_ROME_REMASTERED__Enhanced_Graphics_Pack/
- Dusting off an old favourite in Total War: Rome - Remastered - 29 April 2021
In my day it was called Rome: Total War, and I poured hours into it. My favourite moment was the time I hid a tiny Celt army in the woods and baited a much larger Romano-British army there, then sprung a trap to break their morale so I could chop them up. For a moment, it was very Braveheart, until their reinforcements arrived and trampled me, but we don't talk about that. It was the height of my war-mongering hubris, the sort of outrageous odds one attempts after spending many a happy weekend waging war across Europe in pleated Roman skirts. I really loved that game. And now it's back! Back as Total War: Rome - Remastered, and smartened up for 2021 , with some new graphical effects, higher definition this and that, bigger resolutions, gameplay improvements, and (probably most importantly) more factions than ever to try and win as. But it's still unmistakably what it once was, that game…
- Total War: ROME REMASTERED - Announcement - 25 March 2021
The glowing light of a new dawn shines on the Roman Empire. Conquer Ancient Rome like never before... Send merchants on trade missions, command ferocious battles and build your empire in Total War: ROME REMASTERED on 29 April 2021 - developed by Feral Interactive. Take back your empire with improved visuals such as updated 3D unit models and textures, new campaign map overlays, 16 additional playable factions, a redesigned UI, Steam Workshop mod support, and much more... Any questions? Check out the FAQ Choose your faction and join the fray in the Total War Discord server Pre-purchase on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/885970
- Total War: 1942 turns Rome into World War 2 - 29 May 2019
Across the years, Total War has flung everything from packs of dogs to undead dragons into battle, but Creative Assembly has yet to dabble in an era that lets us finally field the humble tank. Total War: 1942 , an overhaul for the original Rome, fixes this omission, adding not just tanks, but planes, battleships and little blokes with rocket launchers.  V1.0 launched earlier in the month, letting players start a campaign or historic battle as one of 18 playable factions. Not yet playable is the 19th faction, which is the United Nations, confusingly. It wasn't established until after the war, but in this parallel World War 2, it's what holds the Allies together.  Get a glimpse of the war in the launch trailer below.  Having animated vehicles duking it out in Rome is a bit of a treat. It is, however, bizarre seeing all the units neatly standing in a row, exchangin…
- Pre-Purchase Now - Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - 7 February 2019
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam! Three heroes, sworn to brotherhood in the face of tyranny, rally support for the trials ahead. Scenting opportunity, warlords from China’s great families follow suit, forming a fragile coalition in a bid to challenge Dong Zhuo’s remorseless rule. Will they triumph against the tyrant, or will personal ambition shatter their already crumbling alliance and drive them to supremacy? https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F31196189%2Fda13104d2feedfcde64c4152fdda43c2203dbc28.jpg
- Weekend Deal - Total War Historic Titles - 10% to 90% Off! - 27 September 2018
In celebration of the upcoming Total War: Three Kingdoms , save 10% to 90% off on the rest of the Total War Historic Titles as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
- The Best And Worst Total War Games - 4 January 2016
At its best, the Total War series casts a spell over you. Your empire rises from nothing, surrounded by enemies who are poised to trample it into the dust. Each decision on the strategic level is a gamble on the immediate future, where “one more turn” isn’t just a stepping-stone to a new upgrade, but a perilous step onto thin ice. Each time you take to the battlefield is another do-or-die moment, a possible Hastings or Austerlitz that can open the road to conquest or plunge you into a desperate fight for survival. But the Total War series has also been defined by massive, abrupt swings in quality. While the series has been on a linear trajectory in terms of graphics, the quality of the games underlying those vivid battlefield vistas has varied wildly. Total War at its best is interactive Kurosawa and Kubrick. At its worst, it’s a middle-school history textbook as…
- The Making Of Warhammer: Total War (THE MOD) - 11 February 2015
Until Total War: Warhammer comes along from Creative Assembly, the most ambitious and comprehensive Warhammer fantasy strategy game is a colossal mod for Rome: Total War called Warhammer: Total War – A Call to Arms . Over the course of five years, a high school student and a handful of volunteers tortured and twisted the aging Rome: Total War engine into becoming a full-fledged Warhammer game. Powered by an obsolete engine even when the final version was released a couple years back, and soon overshadowed by the news the Sega had acquired the rights to make a Warhammer fantasy game on PC, A Call to Arms could be seen as a classically quixotic modding effort. But if you look past the dated graphics, you’ll find that A Call to Arms might just be the most faithful adaptation Warhammer fantasy will ever receive on PC. It is a sprawling, ambitious, and scarcely-coherent effort to…
- Total War Weekend - 75% off! - 25 September 2014
Save 75% on Total War Titles as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Plus, play Total War: Rome II for FREE until Sunday at 1pm Pacific. If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here . *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time. No discount on Total War: Rome II.
- Company of Heroes and Alpha Protocol among the deals in Sega’s Humble Weekly Sale - 14 March 2014
Sega used to spend their time faffing about with console boxes and a blue hedgehog. Now they spend their time more productively: publishing cool PC games (and occasionally trying to resurrect the blue hedgehog). Sometimes these many projects collide into a single, gloriously incomprehensible mess of different games and styles. It happened with the bizarrely compelling Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed - a game in which an anthropomorphic fox could lose a kart race to the football manager from Football Manager. It's also now happened with this week's Humble Weekly Sale. The pack collects some of the publisher's more celebrated series, along side smaller projects and a collection of classic console games. At the lowest pay-what-you-want tier, you'll get Alpha Protocol, Company of Heroes, Rome: Total War and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit. Pay more than $5.99 and you'll also receiv…
- Total War Week Now Available - 20 August 2013
Save 50 to 75%* on Total War Titles and master history during the Total War Week ! Steam Trading Cards Now Available for Medieval , Empire , Napoleon , and Rome . Plus, pre-purchase Total War: Rome II and receive the laurel wreath in Team Fortress 2. Wearing the laurel wreath unlocks a special "Romebot" invasion in Mann vs Machine mode. *No discount on pre-purchase titles. Offer ends August 26th at 10am pacific.
- Total War: Rome 2 video shows off campaign mode, stonking world map - 25 July 2013
Rome wasn't built in a day, as slow people are fond of saying - no it took, like, at least a week. Creative Assembly seem to be taking even longer with Total War: Rome 2, their latest enormo-strategy title which is set - if my history is correct - in the late 1970s. To make the wait more bearable, the devs have started their own Let's Play series, this latest entry showing off the game's campaign mode. It's a pleasantly in-depth video, detailing the different starting choices and factions, before- cor, look at that gorgeous world map. There's not much in the way of fighting there, but thankfully CreatAss (I promise never to use that contraction again) have recorded a more battle-focused Let's Play entry too. You'll find it below. If you want to know our take (you do), have a read of our recent hands-on preview. Total War: Rome 2 is out September 3rd.
- Daily Deal - Rome: Total War $1 - 11 June 2013
Today's Deal: Rome: Total War™ is $1 / £1 / €1 / 99 rubles / R$1.49!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
- Total War: Arena devs explain free-to-play format - 5 April 2013
We still don't know much about Total War: Arena, the PvP strategy spin-off that will pit teams of up to 10 players against one another, each controlling small units led by historical generals. We don't even have concept art to speculate over yet. But in a recent interview with Edge, Lead Designer James Russel has shared some tidbits about the game's free to play business model, and the reasoning behind it. It may sound incredibly obvious, but Creative Assembly says it's going with free to play because they feel they need as many players as possible in their multiplayer pool. “The first is the reason why we’re doing this is to make this great multiplayer experience…to have a player population on a different level,” says Russell. Previous games in the series have suffered with long matchmaking times and deserted lobbies—something I docked Shogun 2's otherwise great Avatar mode for. Thus,…
- Pyramid Scheme: Total War II Egyptian Faction Revealed - 22 March 2013
Hey, oh Let me hear you say it (Cleopatra) Come on (Cleopatra, comin’ atcha) (Cleopatra, comin’ atcha) (Cleopatra, comin’ atcha) (Cleopatra, comin’ atcha) (more…)
- Total War: Rome 2′s latest faction cries wolf - 15 February 2013
Creative Assembly continue to announce Rome 2's playable factions. Today's reveal heralds the Suebi as the sixth of the game's eight factions, meaning we're only a few weeks away from the full roster. "The Suebi are an indomitable Germanic culture dwelling to the north east of Gaul. Not a single people, but rather numerous tribes sharing a common language and similar religious beliefs," says the wiki page. From the look of the above screenshot, they also make passing wolves rather nervous. "Heavily reliant on infantry and ambush tactics, raiding is their predominant form of conflict. Lightly equipped, most Suebi warriors make use of the framea, a javelin-like spear, as swords are a rarity. Often unarmoured they carried their rounded, oval or long, hexagonal shields into battle and wore little more than simple cloaks or other garments at times." From the sounds of things, their Berserker…
- Total War: Rome 2 video interview: inside Creative Assembly’s motion capture studio - 4 January 2013
I visited Creative Assembly late last year for a look around their brand new motion capture studio. While I was there I spoke to CA mocap manager Pete Clapperton about what it took for the Total War developer to set up their own facility and the way it fits into the development of Total War: Rome II. I also got suited up, covered in pingpong balls, and told to attack a bag of wood chips with an sword. As you do. Fun fact: I once trained as a mime and was paid to hang around parties pretending to be trapped in a glass box. I say this now to establish that, no, CGI Disco Centurion is not the stupidest thing I have done in my professional life. Find out more about Rome 2 in our most recent preview - and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos in which I humiliate myself. Most of the time, they also feature PC games. Edit: At the end, I am the orange Roman. For better or worse.
- Total War: Rome 2 reveals Carthaginian faction - 14 December 2012
Creative Assembly continue to slowly reveal info on Total War: Rome 2. Following last week's shock announcement that the game will feature Rome as a playable faction, today they announce Carthage will also be making it into the game. It's not quite as blindingly obvious a reveal, but Rome: Total War fans won't be surprised to see the return of the North African state. The Total War Wiki has a rundown of what traits and benefits the Carthaginians will offer. "Carthage is an expansionist trading state with a small indigenous population. As such, the bulk of its armies consist of mercenary units." "The core of its land forces, however, are elite Carthaginian citizens known as the Sacred Band and mighty war elephants from the forests of North Africa. Accomplished seamen, their ships are fast and manoeuvrable, with good ramming and missile capabilities." Elephants! The stompiest of land mamm…
