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Sega’s The Creative Assembly unveils 10-versus-10 multiplayer with Total War: Arena

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sega’s The Creative Assembly studio is announcing Total War: Arena, a multiplayer real-time strategy title where 10 players will square off against another 10 in ancient battles that include thousands of soldiers.

The free-to-play PC online game derives from the Total War: Rome II franchise that debuted last year, but it is an interesting extension of the Total War brand into a multiplayer battle experience. Past Total War releases featured just four-on-four online matches. Total War: Arena will be unique in that it will try to pull off the exceedingly difficult number of 10 players against 10 players. Such games have massive numbers of soldiers, and it will be technically very hard to pull off.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.