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Creative Assembly says the Shogun 2 disaster was not its game

Creative Assembly says the Shogun 2 disaster was not its game. Total War VP Roger Collum: "this was not a Creative Assembly developed game", though "our name is on it". Steam went Overwhelmingly Negative in two days, so Sega pulled it and put the 2011 original back up. Players found AI-upscaled art inside. CA says it makes no assets with generative AI and is investigating
  • Total War VP Roger Collum: "this was not a Creative Assembly developed game", though "our name is on it"
  • Steam went Overwhelmingly Negative in two days, so Sega pulled it and put the 2011 original back up
  • Players found AI-upscaled art inside. CA says it makes no assets with generative AI and is investigating

Reported by Creative Assembly's own Total War forum, 23 Oct 2026. We are repeating their reporting rather than claiming it.

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