It's hard to pull a leak after it burst (BP can tell you that) so it looks like the cat may be out of the bag concerning the next game in the Total War RTS franchise from developer The Creative Assembly and publisher Sega. A Turkish web site has apparently gone off the reservation by reporting that it was to be shown Shogun 2: Total War at E3 next month.

And if that's not enough, Voodoo Extreme has posted up what they have said is a full press fact sheet for the game which according to them is slated for a 2011 release. If true it would certainly be a "back to basics" move for the developer since the original Shogun: Total War was the first game in the series. It was released via published Electronic Arts way back in 2000.