Finally I'm allowed to say something about it... we've just announced Empire: Total War! Yupp, that's the game I'm working on.

Find out more here:
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/33957/Empire-Total-War-Announced

:D

Very cool! I cant wait to play it. :D

Congrats thamis. Looks good.

That looks fantastic! How moddable will it be?

Nice! Congratulations.
Atleast you have a good reason for leaving TAM:p

Now you get paid for your modding skillz.:p

That looks fantastic! How moddable will it be?

It'll be very moddable. Not quite as moddable as CIV4, but still a lot more than previous TW games.

Hott.

tttt.

Very cool :) Jaw = dropped!

So...need beta testers?

wow, looks great.

P.S. I'll mail you soon ;)

Beta testing will probably happen, but not for quite a while...

So that means you need Alpha testers? ^_^

Hah! I was playing Medieval II Total War and I alt-tabbed out of it to see how one of my favorite Civilization mods was progressing, and I see this post. It really gets me in a jingoist mood, it does.

Don't know about how testing is done here. I probably won't be as open as Firaxis' test. I'll let you know once I know anything. :)

Awesome, congrats Thamis.

:)

This is fantastic news! I hope the diplomacy system is much more developed in this iteration. I have always loved the TW series, but the irrationality of the diplomacy system was one thing that always annoyed me.

I'm actually developing the new diplomacy system... Should be a lot better. :)

I read about this yesterday... damn, congrats thamis :)
working at CA must be a dream...

I'm actually developing the new diplomacy system... Should be a lot better. :)

This is amazing news. I played Rome Total Realism for about a year and only stopped when I discovered Civ. The diplomacy was the reason I couldn't go back to RTW/RTR

With deeper diplo and moddability it could be the big game for 2008 and onwards.

I'm actually developing the new diplomacy system... Should be a lot better. :)

This is the best news I've heard in a long time. Well it is if it means you guys are taking more of a civilization approach to the AI/diplomacy. Or is CA planning on keeping the 'rawwwr I'm the AI and I'll declare war on you for no reason whatsoever and will never ever accept vassalition or peace even on the brink of annhilation'.

Also, hopefully there will actually be an objective instead of 'conquer every province on the map' that Rome and MTW 2 introduced, or should I say digressed when compare both those games to MTW 1.