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Over 10 years ago a UK-based developer named The Creative Assembly released Shogun: Total War. The historical RTS game was an immediate critical success and paved the way for the developer to add and expand the franchise. Subsequient titles included Rome: Total War, two entries in the Medieval: Total War series and most recently Empire Total War and Napoleon Total War.

Now the company and its owner Sega are going back to where it all started for The Creative Assembly as it returns to the era of 16th century feudal Japan for Total War: Shogun 2. Due out on March 15, the game promises to be the most graphically advanced game in the series with full support for DirectX 11 graphical features. Big Download got a chance to ask questions to The Creative Assembly about Total War Shogun 2 with answers provided to us by team member Tom Jarrett.

In March of 1998 Blizzard released StarCraft, their new RTS game. While many thought the game would be a sales hit no one predicted that the title would be a huge seller with millions of copies sold worldwide. No one predicted that the game would still be played even today. And it came completely out of left field that the game would become akin to a national sport in South Korea.

With the launch later tonight of the long awaited sequel StarCraft II, Blizzard and its parent company Activision Blizzard expect a massive amount of copies to be sold of the sci-fi RTS game. But how did we get from March 1998 to July 2010. We've got a quick timeline to give you an idea of just how long we have been waiting for this game to be released.

Last year at E3 2009, we got our first look at Homefront, a first person shooter from developer Kaos Studios that is set in a near future where North Korea invades the United States. Since then the game's publisher THQ has been keeping the game under lock and key from the press. That ended this week with E3 2010. In fact you couldn't avoid Homefront at the show with tons of banners displayed both inside and outside the Los Angeles Convention Center plus North Korean "troops" occasionally invading the exhibit halls.

But what about the game itself? Does it look better now than it did a year ago? We got a chance to find out in a hands-off but live behind-closed-doors demo of Homefront. In short, it still looks like a game that will be a tad different than the standard shooter title but we are still waiting for more info to convince us.