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Creative Assembly has announced that a massive patch for Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai is headed down the pike, which will also apply to the original TW: Shogun 2 as well. This will the largest patch since the major update back in September for Rise of the Samurai. According to the forum post, the major features of the patch include 40v40 battles and 22 brand new Land, Naval and Siege battle-maps, as well as the usual AI improvements and optimisations, which include greatly reduced save-game file sizes, full Steam Cloud support, battlefield load time improvement (approximately 30% dependent on machine spec), and greatly reduced AI turn-time.

The Total War series is a much beloved one and it's ripe for the PC mod community to tear into and put together their own historical (in)accuracies. The trouble is mods aren't supported. Developer Creative Assembly has nothing against them but it's "quite a lot of work," and they've generally skipped over it. They've "no philosophical problem with modding at all."

EA Sports' FIFA Street is hogging all the glory for another week in the UK chart, meaning Capcom's Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City had no choice but to debut 2nd. That's not bad considering. Mass Effect 3 nudged down 3rd, but FIFA 12 kept 4th. SSX slipped 5th while Kid Icarus: Uprising entered 7th. Ninja Gaiden 3 launched 19th.

Users have started reporting that Total War: Shogun 2 is not only crashing on their systems, but is affecting their Adobe Flash player as well. The issue seems to be most frequent with ATI RADEON graphic card users.

March Madness Revisited.

Robot Entertainment is made up of former Ensemble veterans with Age of Empires to their name. Patrick Hudson of the studio still believes real-time strategy can be big business. He admits though it's "changing a lot," and he's not sure where "it's going to go." The days of selling millions of copies at "50 or 60 bucks as a PC game" are gone; PC retail not there.

Sega has announced that the Dragon War Battle Pack is now available for Total War: Shogun 2. The DLC, which was previously only available for Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai, features the campaign of Saigo Takamori.

Creative Assembly community man Craig Laycock has made a strange announcement on Twitter: Minecraft developer Markus "Notch" Persson may be doing motion capture work to be in the next Total War game. According to Laycock in a tweet, "Been talking to @notch today about him hopefully coming over for mocap for the next @totalwar game. Would be sweet :D"

Creative Assembly has released the first official Total War modding tool, called simply "The Editor" (or TEd by the series' fans), which is automatically installed when gamers update Total War: Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai on Steam.

The classic C&C Renegade from EA has been converted by a mod team so that it features vehicles, structures and locations from Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. It's a standalone creation so it doesn't need the original game to play. The mode from MPF has reached version 1.5 and weighs in at 670MB. They've converted as many assets as possible.

The guys at NeoGAF have spotted gaming mag PC Powerplay teasing what appears to be the sequel to Total War: Rome, with an image of Roman-era combatants and a large Roman numeral "II" superimposed over it.

SEGA and The Creative Assembly today confirmed the development of Total War: Rome II, which will be released exclusively for the PC in 2013. Total War: Rome II takes players into the dangerous political machinations of Rome’s senate, while asking them to struggle with family dilemmas and question the loyalty of ‘friends’ and allies.

Creative Assembly is busy rebuilding the Republic in Total War: Rome II, due out in 2013, and they've talked a little about their plans to "really push both ends" of the spectrum. What spectrum would that be? The one where we get to see thousands of troops on a grand scale, but can then visit soldiers on a 'human level'. Creative want more "emotional interactions".

Developer Creative Assembly has announced that it's working on a game based on the Alien IP.

SEGA and Creative Assembly have issued the latest patch for Total War: Shogun 2 and one of its chief highlights will be the assault the dev team took to online campaign desync troubles. Should you still get desynchronisation then at least error messages have "been localised" to French, and other lingos. Also touched up are those lighting shaders for better "lighting in battles".

Sega has announced a new "Saints and Heroes" downloadable content for Total War: Shogun 2, which will feature nine new elite units. The DLC is available for download now.

Creative Assembly are banding 'Saving Private Ryan' around their office as a phrase to keep the team focused on delivering some real moments of "horrific warfare" like the beach landings. The loss of troops on such a scale is "going to affect you more deeply" this time with Rome II, as they work to lessen emotional detachment. They're aiming for human drama on a "very macro-scale".

Jan van der Crabben, former designer for Empire: Total War, has warned his fellows that studios should brace themselves for a 70% drop-off of initial registered users with their free-to-play titles. Speaking at a GDC Europe keynote, Crabben said whilst the majority play for a little bit and then leave to never return, those who make it a fourth day will generally keep coming back.

Does anyone have any food?

It's a close run thing this year...