

But it gives players a lot more to enjoy than many mobile games that are popular now - something that should help it stand out in the ultracompetitive mobile-gaming market, which according to market researcher App Annie could hit $34 billion by the end of 2016.īy making Total War Battles: Kingdom, The Creative Assembly is showing it is willing to experiment with different types of games. You can tell from the screenshots and video that Total War Battles: Kingdom is still a smaller subset of the larger PC games. This means that PC-only games are migrating to servers and mobile devices without too many trade-offs in the look of the graphics or the speed of the gameplay. Moore’s law (the doubling of the number of transistors every two years) is making mobile devices as powerful as the computers of a few years ago. I think it will be interesting to see how good this game looks and plays on tablets and smartphones. To date, more than 20 million Total War games and 10 million add-on packs have sold in 2015, there were 1 million monthly active Total War players. That may be a way to make it even more of a blockbuster. The Kingdom title is an attempt to take a hardcore PC game series and make it available in a new, lightweight form that can be played on any digital platform, from the PC to tablets. Total War Battles: Kingdom is the 14th title in a series that has spawned rabid fans, who typically play each game for more than 100 hours. It has the distinct design of letting you maneuver your armies on a strategic map and then zooming in on a 3D battlefield when two armies meet in combat. The Total War series has been around for 15 years as a strategy game on the PC. The free-to-play epic battle-strategy game from Sega’s The Creative Assembly studio will debut across a whole series of platforms, and it is already available on the PC. Total War Battles: Kingdom will soon be able to find you wherever you play games. Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10.
