Empire: Total War has been nominated in the Best Original Video Game Score category at the Ivor Novello awards!

We are delighted to report that Empire: Total War has won a BAFTA for Best Strategy Game at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards!

We are pleased to announce that our Elite Units of the East DLC for Empire: Total War will be released on 8th February 2010 and is available to preorder now.

The Elite Units of the East DLC for Empire: Total War adds 12 new elite units to the Maratha and Ottoman factions of Empire: Total War. Empire: Total War expands further East than any previous Total War game and this Downloadable Content includes the very best units from the Eastern lands. Most of these soldiers’ expertise developed on the battlefield – some are fearsome brigands, others of them are drawn from a strong academic background, learned warriors. They will provide a vast array of tactical options: intimidating and cowing your enemies.

For full details and screenshots of these units, please click here.

SEGA® Europe Ltd. and The Creative Assembly today announce that Empire: Total War™ expands with The Warpath Campaign. This expansion pack will be exclusively available through Steam™ in October 2009.

Empire: Total War – The Warpath Campaign adds a new detailed North American campaign map to expand the Empire: Total War experience. In addition to this, The Warpath Campaign also adds 5 brand new American Indian factions, the Iroquois, Huron, Plains, Pueblo and Cherokee tribes. The new playable factions will battle the invaders in the Warpath Campaign, and are also playable in multiplayer battles. A new technology tree, with 18 tribal technologies, will only be available to these new factions, as well as 2 new agent types, namely the mystical Shaman and the cunning Scout. These new factions will also have their own unique Elite Units.

The all new update 1.4, which is out on Tuesday September 22^nd, fixes some minor issues with Empire: Total War, as well as adding 2 brand new historical battles: the Battle of Rossbach and the Battle of Fontenoy. Both battles are available in single player and multi player and are completely free.

“To further iterate our support for Empire: Total War, we’re happy to announce The Warpath Campaign” says Mike Simpson, Creative Director at the Creative Assembly, “With brand new factions, a full new campaign map to play through and changes to the technology tree, this is the definitive Empire: Total War experience.”

Empire: Total War is set in the 18^th century, a turbulent era that is the most requested by Total War’s loyal fan base and a period alive with global conflict, revolutionary fervour and technological advances. Empire: Total War was released on the 6^th of March 2009 and will expand this October with The Warpath Campaign.

For further information on Empire: Total War please visit www.totalwar.com. For assets on Empire: Total War or other SEGA games please visit www.sega-press.com.

The first downloadable content for the critically acclaimed Empire: Total War is now available via Steam.  Featuring 14 new unit types for different playable factions, this downloadable content will add an extra layer to the already in-depth offering that is Empire: Total War.

We are pleased to announce that both the retail and downloadable version of Empire: Total War™ are available now for PC.

For the first time in Total War history, players will command their fleet in true 3D Naval Combat, as well as leading their armies in the stunning land battles that are the critically acclaimed hallmark of the series. Alongside the open ‘Grand Campaign’ game mode now sits the groundbreaking ‘Road to Independence’, a brand new episodic campaign which will gradually introduce newcomers to the incredible size of the Total War experience, as well as giving Total War veterans a new way to experience the game through a challenging objective based structure.

“Empire: Total War has exceeded all our expectations. It’s one of those rare “great works” that the team will remember with enormous pride for the rest of their lives, and the public will remember as one of the landmark games of the decade,” says Mike Simpson, Creative Director at The Creative Assembly, “Looking ahead, we’re excited about delivering more quality content to Empire via updates and downloadable content and we’re looking forward to taking the Total War franchise on to even greater heights”.

Empire: Total War is set in the 18th century, a turbulent era that is the most requested by Total War’s loyal fan base and a period alive with global conflict, revolutionary fervour and technological advances. With themes such as the Industrial Revolution, America’s struggle for independence, the race to control Eastern trade routes and the globalisation of war on land and sea, Empire: Total War promises to be the richest and most dynamic PC RTS game of all time.

For further information on Empire: Total War please visit www.totalwar.com. To experience a taste of Total War download the demo on www.totalwar.com/demo.