Creative Assembly, the studio behind the Total War series, recently decided to revisit 2013's Rome II—seen by many fans as the weakest game in the series in years—with a brand new expansion.

According to developer Creative Assembly’s Grace Carroll, the Total War series’ Steam community was, until very recently, a mess. Largely left to their own devices, forums became “toxic” and “an awful place to be.” Instead of letting the trash fire burn, though, the developer decided to dedicate resources to putting…

As a decades-long fan of Creative Assembly’s Total War series, I’m still coming to grips with the state of the latest game, Thrones of Britannia. It’s at times the worst Total War game I’ve ever played, and yet at others it’s doing everything I’ve been wanting this series to do for years.

The Tomb Kings, sadly absent from the core campaign of Total War: Warhammer II, are coming as part of an expansion on January 23.

Rome 2 was a dull, sprawling mess of a game, easily the weakest release in the Total War series in the past decade. The Warhammer games that followed have improved on it in almost every way imaginable, so Creative Assembly are going back in time (with some lessons learned) to try and get Rome 2 in fighting shape.

A new collection of concept art reveals details of a Halo Wars 3 pitch that featured space battles and XCOM-esque base management.

Let’s keep this simple: Total War: Warhammer was a very good strategy game. Total War: Warhammer 2 is better.

I had some very nice things to say about Total War: Warhammer a year ago when I reviewed it, but over the last week I thought I’d check back in and see how it was faring after 12 months of updates and DLC. I was happy to find that a very good game has got even better.

The nice thing about Halo Wars 2 is that it works.

I was so ready to hate this game.

There was a good chunk of time there when the Total War series was one of the best things on the PC. Its combination of real-time battles and turn-based planning made it a lot of people’s—mine included—perfect strategy game. Then along came Total War: Rome II.

Creative Assembly, the guys behind the Total War series—some of my favourite games—have along with publisher Sega tried something slightly different for their next release’s DLC. And it hasn’t gone down too well.

Ah, Alien: Isolation. A game I could have loved, were it not entirely about something I hate.

You’ve been wondering what Total War: Warhammer would look and play like, right? A new walkthrough video gives a look at the units, leaders and gameplay of the mash-up strategy title.

Just as I was talking about Total War, colour and character, here we go: an art book featuring concept and promo pieces dating all the way back to the very beginning of the series.