Creative Assembly

Now that you wanted to discuss a what you see as sort of like a triumvirate tie between three alien properties that are distant from enough from one another to like somebody who's not read in on perhaps Alien Isolation.

Yeah, so Alien Isolation was, they made the decision, well, it was originally this proof of concept by Creative Assembly.

And they sort of, because prior to this it had been like, Aliens video games were like, giant machine gun killing hordes of aliens, maybe in the jungle.

And they were, you know, but Creative Assembly sort of did this proof of concept of like, what if it was a suspense horror thing, it's just you and one alien.

Mm-hmm.

in this like big empty ship and it turned into first person.

So Xbox had a very, very big presence with Halo, Forza Horizon.

Creative Assembly was around.

They had Alien Isolation 2 and Total War Warhammer 40K.

Ark Raiders had a very big booth.

They're...

Creative Assembly isn't making that off their own dime.

They're making it because the studio wants them to make it.

So I would imagine, again, I'm not an expert on nothing in terms of how that works and the finances, but the IP is owned by Disney.

But it's actually a turn-based game in my head.

But... on the same or kind of the same the same franchise we've got dawn of war 4 from deep silver you know so if you think we've got creative assembly released in total war we've got the game of thrones um title and we have dawn of war 4. there's still aaa investment and money in real-time strategy and you've got to be hopeful about that because there's still people who are willing to invest In RTS games, I think that indie developers are the future for real-time strategy.

And last week, I was speaking to Drexy about indie titles.

And we were talking about, what does success look like? And I think we were talking about 4X games, I think, at the time.

Because if we accept that the Total War game is a RTS game, Dawn of War 4 is Steam only, or certainly PC only, whereas the Total War Warhammer 40k game is going to be the

first

ever title from Creative Assembly, which is launched on consoles at the same time as it's launched on PC.

So I'm going to be interested to see what the sales figures are like on consoles for that particular title.

Yeah.

Speaking about negotiating things and working collaboratively, you've not just worked with the community as Creative Assembly over this decade of Total War and Warhammer.

You've been working with Games Workshop the whole time.

How has that relationship basically developed over the past decade to the point where it feels like we're now culminating almost, even though it's the start of something new?

I am excited.

so the game is going to release in 2027 we don't know when but in 2027 it is being developed by creative assembly and it's going to be published by sega but let me give you a little bit information about the game So Total War, Warhammer 40,000, represents the monumental shift for Creative Assembly's legendary strategy franchise, trading the fantasy realm of the old world for the grim, dark, and future of the 41st millennium, serving as a massive pivot for traditional ranked and flank melee combat to modern squad-based sci-fi warfare.

This highly anticipated title brings the sprawling galactic conflicts of the Warhammer 40k universe to life on an unpredictable scale.

Though it skipped the opening night live broadcast, the game has made a massive impact on Gamescom's 2026 show floor with a hugely popular hands-on demo at Sega booth, ultimately taking home the converted best PC game at the Gamescom Awards.

Traditional battle lines are broken up by heavily reliant on cover, intense ranged firepower, and dynamic squad movement.

one of the standout futures highlights during the gamescom demo is that the ability to call in orbital support such as devastating space marine reinforcement drop pods that can can slam down mid-battle to shatter the enemy formation or reinforce breaking lines so basically normally you have these total war games as a melee game like you know swords bow stuff like that but this one here is changing the entire franchise like it's just like changing everything up it's gonna be way more artillery way more cover way more tanks i think this game is gonna feel more like an rts like it's still gonna feel more like as a total war game but i also think it's gonna feel a lot like an rts game but yeah Beyond the real-time tactical battles, players will engage in a massive grand strategy campaign layer, managing resources and conquest across a sprawling galactic map.

Adding to the depth, Creative Assembly is introducing a deep customization system allowing players to utilize as an in-game army painter to tailor the colors, heraldry, and visual identity of their forces.

A beloved feature highly requested by tabletop miniature fans.