An update for Empire: Total War has been released and is now available. The big patch adds a laundry list of crash fixes, gameplay improvements and other adjustments.
Creative Assembly has just announced that next will see the release of the first Major upgrade for their PC title Empire :Total War.
The NPD Group released the US PC retail sales for the month of March today and Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War is at the top of the heap. They managed to triumph over the likes of Wrath of the Lich King, The Sims 2, and Dawn of War II.
Even though Empire: Total War is the best 'PC' game to come out this year it still needs technical fixes (late game slowdown is still a problem for gamers), the team at Creative Assembly has announced that they are about to introducing some gameplay changes as well.
An update for Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War, which was released to 'fix some random crashes in sound', has inadvertently brought a new set of issues for some players.
An update has been released for Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War, adding some fixes to the popular PC title.
Updates to Empire: Total War have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Mark O'Connell, community manager for Sega, revealed today that the team are working on another patch for Empire: Total War. The fixes planned for this patch contain crash to desktop preventions, general sound balancing improvements, saving or loading issues and more.
The NPD has released the PC retail sales data for March 8th to March 14th in the US and Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War is still on top. For the second week in a row, the historical strategy game has beaten out the likes of Wrath of the Lich King and Dawn of War II.
Improvements: handgrenade explosion reworked (more white smoke) reworked ship deckfire distortion reworked cannonfire distortion reworked smoke columns for moving ships changed color for burning ship smoke added distortion for ship explosion effect.
Real-time strategy game Dawn of War II beat out World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King two weeks in a row in US PC sales but now both games have been bested by a new challenger: Creative Assembly's Empire: Total War.
Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.
Luke Plunkett of Kotaku writes:
Sega announced today that it would be rolling out the first of a series of updates for Empire: Total War. The first patch will be released today with a variety of fixes.
Sega has acknowledged a number of issues with its latest release, Empire: Total War, which has caused users to complain about the game and service.
Speed Tree®RT will appear in Empire: Total War, the latest entry in SEGA® Corporation's award-winning series of historically-based, real-time strategy games.
Empire: Total War is now available via Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games with over 20 million accounts worldwide, as well as retail outlets around the world.
IncGamers are reporting that the UK's Steam website indicates that Empire: Total War is available now.