{"id":26247,"date":"2012-12-10T17:12:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T07:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=26247"},"modified":"2012-12-10T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T07:12:06","slug":"sega-and-creative-assembly-announce-partnership-with-games-workshop-to-create-warhammer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=26247","title":{"rendered":"SEGA and Creative Assembly Announce Partnership with Games Workshop to Create Warhammer Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO &amp; LONDON \u2013 6AM EST, December 6, 2012 \u2013<\/strong> SEGA\u00ae of America, Inc. and SEGA\u00ae Europe Ltd. today announced that Creative Assembly\u2122, award-winning creator of the <em>Total War<\/em>\u2122 series, and SEGA\u00ae Group have entered into a multi-title licensing deal with Games Workshop\u00ae to create videogames based in the <em>Warhammer\u00ae <\/em>universe of fantasy battles.<\/p>\n<p>A new high-calibre development team has been set up at Creative Assembly\u2019s UK studio to work alongside the existing <em>Total War<\/em>, Alien\u2122 IP and Mobile teams on the first <em>Warhammer<\/em> title in the deal, scheduled to launch from beyond 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this year being our 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary\u201d, said Tim Heaton, Studio Director at Creative Assembly, \u201cit seems fitting for us to embark on such a dream project with such a well-established partner. The incredibly rich and detailed Warhammer world is something we grew up with, and has left an indelible imprint on us as both designers and gamers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be doing the Warhammer universe justice in a way that has never been attempted before. We\u2019re bringing those 25 years of experience and expertise in extremely high-scoring games to bear, delivering a Warhammer experience that videogamers will absolutely love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have enormous respect for SEGA and Creative Assembly and have felt for a long time that the combination of the enormously rich setting of the Warhammer world, and their stunning development talent is a match with huge potential,\u201d said Jon Gillard, Games Workshop&#8217;s Head of Licensing. \u201cNow that we\u2019ve managed to bring these two giants of gaming together it is safe to say that some truly amazing products are going to be unleashed as a result. We are excited at the possibilities, and are enthusiastically working with the team at Creative Assembly already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This first Warhammer game joins the eagerly-awaited <em>Total War\u2122: Rome II <\/em>and the untitled Alien IP as one of five projects currently in production at Creative Assembly, now one of the largest developers in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>For future updates and career opportunities please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creative-assembly.com\">www.creative-assembly.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO &amp; LONDON \u2013 6AM EST, December 6, 2012 \u2013 SEGA\u00ae of America, Inc. and SEGA\u00ae Europe Ltd. today announced that Creative Assembly\u2122, award-winning creator of the Total War\u2122 series, and SEGA\u00ae Group have entered into a multi-title licensing deal with Games Workshop\u00ae to create videogames based in the Warhammer\u00ae universe of fantasy battles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=26247\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26248,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26247\/revisions\/26248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}