EDWIN EVANS-THIRLWELL × THE CREATIVE ASSEMBLY
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell's The Creative Assembly coverage, across 9 games.
21 articles across 9 The Creative Assembly games. Each row keeps the game cover so you can tell which title it's about.
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16 SEPT
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Rock Paper Shotgun·16 Sept
Total War: Shogun 2's Complete Edition adds 50 minor factions in return for breaking your mods, but fear not, players who stick to the old version will get legacy DLC for freenewsonTotal War: Shogun 2

14 AUG
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Rock Paper Shotgun·14 Aug
Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting a big free vampiric update in September, alongside the epithet-stuffed Lords of the End Times DLCnewsonTotal War: Warhammer III

24 JUL
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Rock Paper Shotgun·24 Jul
Sweeping, strafing and suppression: Total War: Warhammer 40,000 threatens to blow up Total War's combat fundamentalsnewsonTotal War: Warhammer 40,000

26 JUN
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Rock Paper Shotgun·26 Jun
Creative Assembly confirm Total War: Medieval 3's starting factions, pegging out a complex world of schemers and killers, feudal giants and emerging empiresnewsonTotal War: Medieval III

24 JUN
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Rock Paper Shotgun·24 Jun
"Characters will come and go": Total War: Medieval 3 won't have skill trees because Creative Assembly want you to think in terms of dynastiesnewsonTotal War: Medieval III

1 MAY
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Rock Paper Shotgun·1 May
Total War: Warhammer 40,000's map destruction is "the biggest mental shift" for the strategy series in years, but "we've kept it to areas where it really works"newsonTotal War: Warhammer 40,000

27 APR
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Rock Paper Shotgun·27 Apr
Alien Isolation 2 teaser video shows the horror game heading planetside, but those panic-inducing save stations are following itnewsonAlien: Isolation 2

20 MAR
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Rock Paper Shotgun·20 Mar
"A balancing paradigm I often look at is Starcraft": Total War: Medieval 3 won't lean too hard on rock-paper-scissors combat, says creative directornewsonTotal War: Medieval III

6 MAR
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Rock Paper Shotgun·6 Mar
You won't have any standing armies in Total War: Medieval 3 at first, so better get chummy with the commonersnewsonTotal War: Medieval III

16 FEB
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Rock Paper Shotgun·16 Feb
Total War: Warhammer 3 is getting some absolutely murderous catsnewsonTotal War: Warhammer III

17 DEC 2025
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Rock Paper Shotgun·17 Dec 2025
Creative Assembly explain Total War: Warhammer 40,000's factions - the Eldar "play totally differently to anything we’ve ever done"newsonTotal War: Warhammer 40,000

12 DEC 2025
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Rock Paper Shotgun·12 Dec 2025
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is real and features Orks, Space Marines, the Aeldari and for some reason, David HarbournewsonTotal War: Warhammer 40,000

11 DEC 2025
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Rock Paper Shotgun·11 Dec 2025
Total War: Warhammer 40,000 reveal likely after telltale word "40K" spotted in Creative Assembly videonewsonTotal War: Warhammer 40,000

4 DEC 2025
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Rock Paper Shotgun·4 Dec 2025
Creative Assembly reveal Total War: Medieval 3, while teasing a huge game announcement to follownewsonTotal War: Medieval III

7 OCT 2025
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Rock Paper Shotgun·7 Oct 2025
Total War: Warhammer 3's developers are fighting to fix "a catastrophic failure in many of our AI systems"newsonTotal War: Warhammer III

29 APR 2025
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Rock Paper Shotgun·29 Apr 2025
Medieval strategy sim Manor Lords is getting proper AI village-building, an upkeep system and fancier castlesnewsonMedieval: Total War
