News by Matt S. SEGA has announced that the next in the long-running Total War series – A Total War Saga: TROY – will be completely free for the first 24 hours. This is part of the deal that it has formed with Epic Games Store whereby the game will…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. SEGA and Creative Assembly have pulled off something truly remarkable. Total War: Three Kingdoms has become the most successful title in the Total War series, and a massive hit for what remains an incredibly niche genre. With over 150,000 concurrent players at once at a point,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It surprises me that it has taken the talented group at Creative Assembly so long to take a swing at bringing its Total War formula to the ancient conflict depicted in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As a conflict that spread across the entirety of China,…
Read MoreWe’re back! After a week’s hiatus so Matt could attend Tokyo Game Show, we’re now back to chat about all the great (and not such great stuff) that happened in the last week. First we chat about TGS, and then the sad news about Telltale Games, before moving on to…
Read MoreWhat an eclectic bunch of games we’ve got to talk about this week! First up, we talk about Dead or Alive 6, which was announced just hours before we recorded the podcast. Then we talk about Vampires, in light of the release of Vampyr by Dontnod. And, finally, we talk…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I am beyond excited for Total War: Three Kingdoms. The first time the Total War series has taken on the most fascinating conflict in Chinese history, the very idea of the Creative Assembly blend of battlefield real time strategy and empire-building, turn-based grand strategy, is enough…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Wow is Total War is a busy franchise these days. Within the last couple of years alone we’ve seen the series take us to the battlefields of Attila and the fantasy realm of Warhammer (twice), and there’s a trip to ancient Briton coming in the near…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a platform, the Apple iPad and other tablet devices are perfect for strategy games. The immediacy of interaction, through touching units and characters to direct them about, has an experiential element that helps strategy games as well, making you feel like an omnipresent commander with…
Read MoreSEGA accidentally announced Total War: Warhammer by mentioning it in its Total War art book a few months back, but the company has now formally announced the game. Listed as “coming soon”, the game takes place in the Warhammer fantasy world, meaning swords and shields, magic and arrows. The trailer…
Read MoreSega is celebrating 15 years of the Total War franchise with a short video that shows clips of all that has come before, and some of what to expect further through 2015. Related reading: Our review of the most recent Total War game, Total War: Attila. Total War kicked off…
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