In March 2010 the Quartet was honored for Excellence in Research and Creative Work by the Boulder Faculty Assembly at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

On September 27th, 2011, The Creative Assembly released a DLC pack for Total War: Shogun 2 entitled " Rise of the Samurai ", which allows players to play as members of the Taira, the Minamoto, or the Fujiwara families.

Developers such as Blizzard Entertainment, id Software, Valve Software, Bethesda Softworks, Firaxis, Crytek, The Creative Assembly and Epic Games provide extensive tools and documentation to assist mod makers, leveraging the potential success brought in by a popular mod like Counter-Strike.

Total War is a computer strategy game series developed by the Creative Assembly.

Total War: Rome II was announced by Creative Assembly as the next game in the series.

Shogun: Total War is a turn-based strategy and real-time tactics computer game developed by The Creative Assembly and published by Electronic Arts.

Through the course of development, Shogun: Total War evolved into a real-time tactics game with a focus on historical authenticity ; military historian Stephen Turnbull advised The Creative Assembly in this regard.

Shogun: Total War was announced in early 1999, developed by the Creative Assembly under Electronic Arts.

The Creative Assembly had previously been involved with Electronic Arts, producing games for the EA Sports brand.

According to Simpson, Shogun was conceived when the Creative Assembly established a secondary development team from their EA Sports designers to develop an alternate, low business risk product for the company.

As development progressed, 3dfx video cards began to proliferate amongst consumers, leading the Creative Assembly to move the game from 2D to 3D computer graphics.

To attempt to make the setting as authentic as possible, the Creative Assembly enlisted the aid of Stephen Turnbull, a military historian who specialises with samurai warfare, although the jidaigeki films by Akira Kurosawa also provided a source of inspiration-excerpts of the famous Mt.

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Rome: Total War ( often abbreviated to RTW or Rome ) is a PC strategy game developed by The Creative Assembly and released on by Activision.

On 2 July 2012, The Creative Assembly announced the development of Total War: Rome II as the next edition of the Total War series.

* Total War: Rome II, an upcoming strategy game developed by the The Creative Assembly, sequel to Rome: Total War.

The televised programmes contained no reference to the origin of the software powering the 3D visuals, due to the BBC's rules against product placement ; however Rome: Total War makers The Creative Assembly were named in the credits of the show with a specific mention of them providing the game engine.

The Creative Assembly is a British video game developer established in 1987 by Tim Ansell and based in the West Sussex town of Horsham.

Shogun: Total War was highly successful for the Creative Assembly and is regarded as a benchmark strategy game.

In March 2005, the Creative Assembly was acquired by Japanese giant Sega as a European subsidiary.

Under Sega, further Total War titles were developed, and the Creative Assembly entered the console market with action-adventure games such as Spartan: Total Warrior and Viking: Battle for Asgard.

The Creative Assembly was founded on 18 August 1987 as a limited company.

The Creative Assembly began work with Electronic Arts in 1993, producing titles under the EA Sports label, starting with the DOS version of the early FIFA games.

With EA Sports, The Creative Assembly was able to produce low development risk products bearing official league endorsements.

Creative Wonders ( a partnership between ABC and Electronic Arts ) produced Sesame Street software for the Macintosh, since at least 1995 and on the PC since 1996 ; Atari produced Sesame Street games in 1983.

Although the IBM and compatibles initially lacked the hardware sound processing capabilities of the Amiga, with the advent of the Sound Blaster line from Creative, PC audio slowly began to approach CD Quality ( 44. 1 kHz / 16-bit / Stereo ) with the release of the SoundBlaster 16.

Evil Laboratories used it in their SID Symphony expansion cartridge ( sold to Creative Micro Designs in 1991 ), and it was used in a few other places as well, including one PC sound-card.

The IBM DA15 PC game connector has been modified to add a ( usually MPU-401 compatible ) MIDI interface, and this is often implemented in the game connectors on third-party sound cards, for example the Sound Blaster line from Creative Labs.

It was only compatible with Creative Labs ' SoundBlaster series of sound cards, which were most popular on the PC at that time.

In 1995, Yamaha released the first XG-based product for PC users, the DB50XG daughterboard, a Creative Wave Blaster competitor.

The cards ( all manufactured on red PCBs, similar to fellow Canadian company ATI ) were very agreeably priced, although a little more expensive than Creative cards ; they undercut many equivalent professional cards aimed at musicians by a huge margin, and brought CD quality audio reproduction ( ; 16-bit ; stereo ) within the grasp of home PC users.

Sound hardware that can be emulated includes the PC speaker ( played back through the host's standard sound output, not its physical internal PC speaker ), AdLib, Gravis Ultrasound, Tandy, Creative Music System / GameBlaster, Sound Blaster 1. x / 2. 0 / Pro / 16, and Disney Sound Source.

The Creative Labs SoundBlaster line was for many years the de facto standard for sound cards, although its popularity dwindled as PC audio became a commodity on modern motherboards.

The Creative Assembly itself was also awarded the European Computer Trade Show PC Game Developer of the Year award.

This version came with a card that featured a Cyrix CX486 DX2 / 66 80486 processor and a single SIMM RAM slot that used the same type of RAM to that in the Power Mac itself, and could hold up to 32mb of RAM, a Creative Technology Vibra 16 sound chipset, and also sported standard PC VGA and joystick ports.

Creative dominated the PC audio market and remains unchallenged by a major competitor since the late 1990s.

It uses the Sierra's Creative Interpreter ( SCI ) engine, the same engine used in titles such as King's Quest IV ; while it still used 16-color graphics, it featured twice the resolution as well as music card support instead of the PC speaker.

* Eagle Eye Mysteries in London ( 1994 ) for PC and Macintosh, published by Creative Wonders ( EA Kids )

* Eagle Eye Mysteries ( 1993 ) for PC and Macintosh, published by Creative Wonders ( EA Kids )

" Mathematical Games — on the Fanciful History and the Creative Challenges of the Puzzle Game of Tangrams ", Scientific American Aug. 1974, p. 98 – 103.

Mizuguchi's final position at Sega was Chief Creative Officer of Sega's United Game Artists game division.

A year later, in 1988, Creative marketed the C / MS via Radio Shack under the name Game Blaster.

Creative did not change any of the labeling or program names on the disks that came with the Game Blaster, but also included a later revision of the game Silpheed that added C / MS support.

It has won several awards including GAMES Magazine 2011 Best Abstract Strategy Game, Creative Child Magazine 2010 Strategy Game of the Year, and the 2010 Parents ' Choice Approved Award.

Identical places in the Adventure Game Interpreter | AGI ( left, 1983 – 1987 ) and " Enhanced " Sierra's Creative Interpreter | SCI ( right, 1990 ) versions of the game

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