Tag Archives: Creative Assembly

Relic Entertainment has been under the SEGA umbrella for years now, producing games like Company of Heroes and Dawn of War, while also offering development resources for partners like Microsoft. Now, Relic is transitioning, splitting off from SEGA to become an independent studio.  Today, it was announced that Relic is …

2023 has been an interesting year for the video games industry. We have seen a whole host of publishers spending millions or even billions on acquiring various companies, all the while making 1000s of game developers redundant. SEGA is the latest company to take part in this confusing trend – …

A few weeks ago, SEGA cancelled another of projects, the most surprising of which was Creative Assembly's announced shooter, Hyenas. Now we may know why Sega pulled the plug, as it was reportedly set to be the publisher's highest-budget game ever.  As much as we love the creative side of …

SEGA appears to be going through a bit of a shake-up, as the publisher has cancelled a number of projects. The biggest cancellation impacts Creative Assembly's upcoming shooter, Hyenas, but several unannounced projects have also been axed. In an investor note published this week, Sega warned shareholders that it expects …

Recently we reported that a AAA game based on the popular Alien film franchise is said to be currently in development, While little else was known about the title at the time, a new leak has offered additional information revealing which studio has been tasked with the game’s development. Following …

Back in February, Creative Assembly announced the finale to its Warhammer series – Total War: Warhammer 3. The game was initially announced to be released in 2021, but the developers need some extra time, moving the game into an ‘early 2022' release window. “With nearly a decade of development on …

Creative Assembly have been consistently making video games for over 30 years. During this time, the Horsham, England based studio has become known for a number of high profile franchises including Total War, and the much-loved Alien: Isolation. The studio has now announced its latest expansion, making Creative Assembly the …

It has been a few years since Creative Assembly first embarked on its Total War: Warhammer series. There have been two excellent games so far, but this was always envisioned as a trilogy. Today, Creative Assembly officially announced Total War: Warhammer III.  Total War: Warhammer III will be releasing later …

Creative Assembly and Epic Games teamed up for something rather unusual last week. As part of the launch day for Total War Saga: Troy, the game was free to claim on the Epic Games Store for 24 hours. The giveaway was already a huge success when over a million people …

This week, Creative Assembly announced that its upcoming game, Total War Saga: Troy, will be an Epic Games Store exclusive for a period of time. This came as quite the surprise, but the studio has explained that it does not plan on taking this approach with future Total War titles. …

Back in 2016, World of Tanks developer, Wargaming, announced its collaboration with Creative Assembly on massively multiplayer RTS, Total War: Arena. Just one year later, the developers have announced that the ambitious free-to-play 10 versus 10 strategy game will be shutting down permanently. Total War: Arena was an experiment that …

Total War: Rome 2 been hit with a plethora of overwhelmingly negative reviews this week, in a review bombing effort to ridicule the developer for supposedly increasing the spawn rate of female generals. Developer Creative Assembly has since responded to the accusations to tell those bothered by the alleged change …

Back towards the end of 2016, we once again heard that Crytek was facing financial troubles, causing the company to downsize its operations and sell off certain studios. One such studio to was Crytek Black Sea, which has now found a home over at Creative Assembly, the team behind the …

The publishing arm of the World of Tanks developer, Wargaming, is set to take the reins of Creative Assembly's still in-development, Total War: Arena. Although Sega will still have some say in the whole process, it was officially partnered with Wargaming Alliance to handle the majority of the heavy lifting. …

Creative Assembly initially wasn't going to allow mods with Total War: Warhammer – we suspect because of Games Workshop influence – but it must be glad it turned things around, as already there are over 1,000 of them. From adding new playable armies, to increasing the size of the battles, …

One of the concerns I've heard from a few Total War: Warhammer players in the past week, is that the manual wasn't on Steam where it was supposed to be. We reached out to Creative Assembly to find out what's going on and can now give you a direct link …

Although some were concerned about Total War abandoning its historically accurate roots to explore some of the fictional conflicts of the Warhammer Old World, it turns out that the blend of fantastical and medieval combat is rather popular. Total War: Warhammer is the fastest selling Total War game in the …

Creative Assembly has been teasing another playable race for its Total War: Warhammer title for a while now. While there are many races people would like to see, Bretonnia seemed like an obvious choice, because of the cross over with the Empire models, and it looks like we weren't wrong. …

I have a bit of a soft spot for Goblins. They get a bad rap in most fantasy universes, but at least in the world of Warhammer they tend to be quite comical. Night Goblins however are a little different: they're crazy even by Goblin standards, but they do embody …

Total War: Warhammer is a match up of two entities that seemed destined to cross paths at some point. The epic, sprawling nature of the Total War games is a great fit for the chaotic maelstrom of politics and war in the Old World and yet it's taken over a …

As much as looking at fantasy worlds often reveal horrific racism and xenophobia among their occupants, there's something simplistic about separate races of people which appeals to our tribal nature that's just about hidden under society's veil. But that tribalism does allow for the creation of strong, thematic fantasy characters like …

Microsoft's Gamescom conference just wrapped up with the announcement of Halo Wars 2, which will be heading to the PC and Xbox One later on next year. The original Halo Wars launched all of the way back in 2009 as an RTS title for the Xbox 360, now Total War …

The Warhammer world has a lot of weird and wonderful creatures and contraptions, with giants, griffons, cannons and ball and chain swinging goblins being common place – they're a mad lot in the Old World. Perhaps not as mad as the wizards though, who tread that line between chaos and …

One of the biggest challenges for Creative Assembly (CA) in the creation of Total War: Warhammer has been balancing all of the unit types. Each army has more depth and varied units than an entire Total War game and things get even more complicated when you factor in flying soldiers …

Even though Games workshop has released a number of games based around its Warhamer and Warhammer 40,000 universes over the years, very few of them really captured the anarchic battles that can feature everything from trolls, to steampunk cannons, to demi-gods and demons. Fortunately then, early reports of the upcoming …

Creative Assembly has been a very busy studio recently, it launched the critically acclaimed Alien Isolation towards the end of last year and just a short while ago, it launched Total War: Attila. Now the team is back at it with Creative War: Warhammer. Total War: Warhammer has been rumored …

You never really believed that even after its hit with Alien: Isolation, that Creative Assembly would stop making Total War games did you? Despite Rome II's somewhat lacklustre reception, another Total War game has been in the works for a couple of years already, but it steps into the world …

Today sees the worldwide release of Alien: Isolation, potentially the best Alien (not Alien vs Predator mind you) game ever released. It's reviewed well, with most highlighting the xenomorph's lifelike hunting as being a real scare generator, even if some of the game does feel a bit padded. Still, for …

If Dallas taught us anything in the first Alien film, it's that vents don't save you from the Xenomorph, so why Amanda Ripley thinks it's a great idea to go waltzing down one in the latest trailer from Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation is beyond me. I use the word “waltz” …

In the build up to the release of Alien Isolation in just under a month's time, Creative Assembly has been releasing teasers of the game with the tagline (and hashtag) “how you will you survive?” If our efforts are anything like those of the player being showcased in the trailers, …