Wednesday, 24th October 2007
Empire:Total War Q&A
We recently set up a thread on our official forums and invited you to submit questions to the Empire: Total War team. In our latest Blog Q&A, we are delighted to now provide the answers to a variety of your Empire inquisitions!
Tuesday, 23rd October 2007
Get Exclusive Total War News!
This month's bumper-packed Total War newsletter includes an exclusive interview with an Empire: Total War Artist, an exciting new competition, and our first ever Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms Game Save Challenge!
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Monday, 22nd October 2007
Ghoulish Calendar Blog!
We had an unprecedented amount of entries for our calendar competition this month. All of which are now available to view, in addition to exclusive commentary from the artists in our new Calendar Blog. There are even some spooky images to get you in the mood for Halloween next week!
Monday, 15th October 2007
Britannia Campaign Guide!
FrogBeastEgg (aka Rachel McFadden) has been slaving away on an indepth
guide to Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms, and we are delighted to now
make the first part exclusively available for download here.
Weighing in at an impressive 27 pages, her Britannia campaign guide
contains must-read tips and advice for budding war strategists!
Monday, 1st October 2007
October's Calendar Available Now!
Congratulations to Maciej Sprada in Poland who created this months winning Create A Calendar competition design. You can download October's Wallpaper to your desktop in a variety of sizes here.
November 2007's Create A Calendar Competition has now officially
started (doesn't time fly?), and you
have until the 31st October 2007 to get your entries in. This month we are
once giving away a copy of Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms, Medieval II and Rome
soundtracks,
and a piece of signed Medieval II artwork.
Ensure that your artwork is sized to 853 x 640 pixels, and then send your completed entries to: totalwarcomp@creative-assembly.com. Please visit our Competitions page for full entry terms and conditions. Stay tuned for our exclusive October Calendar blog, coming soon!
Thursday, 27th September 2007
Americas Gameplay Video
We were delighted to learn that Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms has been nominated for a BAFTA in the Strategy and Simulation category. The winners of the British Academy Video Games Awards will be announced at the ceremony on Tuesday 23rd October 2007 at Battlesea Evolution.
Our highly anticipated fourth gameplay video from the Americas Campaign in Kingdoms is now online. Click here to download it in Windows Media format!
Friday, 21st September 2007
CVG previews Empire!
CVG have posted their Empire: Total War preview online. Previously only available in PC Zone magazine, you can now read the article in all it's glory right here!
having undoubtedly downloaded this month's Calendar wallpaper Calendar wallpaper, head over to our Create A Calendar Blog to check out all the other entries we received for September's Competition, and hear from the artists themselves!
Tuesday, 11th September 2007
Planning Permission Granted!
Our Medieval II: Total War Building and Unit Planners are now available to download in PDF format. Head over to the Downloads section to get yours!
Wednesday, 5th September 2007
September Calendar And Campaign Videos!
We are pleased to announce the winner of September's Create a Calendar Competition, and congratulations go to Gary Kendall in England! You can download
the winning Wallpaper to your desktop in a variety of sizes here.
To celebrate the release of Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms, we have also created a downloadable faction feature video from each of the four campaigns for your viewing pleasure:
Norway Faction Feature: 28.9MB
Teutonic Faction Feature: 31.4MB
Jeruselam Faction Feature: 27.9MB
Apache Faction Feature: 26.9MB
Teutonic Faction Feature: 31.4MB
Jeruselam Faction Feature: 27.9MB
Apache Faction Feature: 26.9MB
Tuesday, 4th September 2007
Medieval II: Update 3 Released!
Update 1.3 is
now available to download for owners of Medieval II: Total War. The
latest update includes online multiplayer fixes to allow owners of the original
game to play with those who have installed Kingdoms (available in stores now!). You need Update 2 installed in order to install Update 1.3.
Instructions:
Download Update 1.3 from one of the mirror sites below, unpack it to your desktop using WinRAR and then manually install
the patch via the proper language folder in the “Update 3” folder in this
directory. Double click on “medieval2.exe” to get started:
In a blast from the past, Rockpapershotgun.com has unearthed an interesting making-of article about Shogun: Total War.
