Prime subscribers this month can get their hands on EA’s action-adventure game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which we at GamingBolt enjoyed a lot. Additionally, SEGA’s strategy game Total War: Warhammer and Saber Interactive’s co-op zombie shooter World War Z: Aftermath are also up for grabs, among many others. The full list of games being offered is down below.

AMAZON PRIME GAMING JANUARY 2022 LINEUP:

• Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• Total War: Warhammer
• World War Z: Aftermath
• Two Point Hospital
• WRC 7
• In Other Waters
• Paper Beast
• Abandon Ship
• Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remastered

To claim the games, an Amazon account with an active Amazon Prime subscription is required. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order requires an EA Play account for users to claim, whereas Total War: Warhammer and World War Z: Aftermath requires an active Epic Games Store account to claim. Check out Prime Gaming’s page to get more details on how to claim the games for January 2022.

The Creative Assembly will be consolidating the campaigns of Total War: Warhammer and Total War: Warhammer 2 into one giant, consolidated campaign (finally uniting the Old World and the New World into one package), to create one gigantic campaign that takes players through the entirety of the Warhammer world.

The new campaign will be called Mortal Empires, and it will be released next week, on October 26- if you are a player who has not yet had the chance to experience The Creative Assembly’s excellent take on the Warhammer universe, this is your chance to jump in with one staggering and overwhelming story. If you’re a Warhammer fan, then this one campaign is basically something you have probably been waiting for for a long time anyway.

You can check out a cinematic trailer for Mortal Empires for yourself below. Total War: Warhammer and Warhammer 2 are the first two parts in an anticipated trilogy by The Creative Assembly set in the Warhammer universe. Presumably the final part will launch next year.

The Creative Assembly has been busy with Total War: Warhammer and Halo Wars 2 but it has quite a bit planned for the future. According to brand director Rob Bartholomew in a round table interview (as per PCGamesN), the next Total War title will be in “an era we haven’t tackled yet.” You can also “new and exciting” features on top of that.

It will still be a while before the game is revealed and certainly won’t be out for another “couple of years”. However, you fans can expect it to be “both huge [and] historic.”

In the meantime, there will be more Total War: Warhammer content with plans for two more games. The upcoming sequel will be equivalent in size to the current one and may even four races from launch itself. While each game will be stand-alone, they will make for a “single, all-encompassing grand campaign” as per Eurogamer.

Game director Ian Roxburgh noted that, “Now the technical way of doing that is a bit fiddly. But ultimately it’s been something we’ve been determined to do right from the start. We don’t want to break it up. We want that massive map, right at the end, and we want everything in it. It’s going to be something that people lose their shit over.”

On October 20th, The Creative Assembly with be delivering its second Lords pack for Total War: Warhammer. The King & The Warlord DLC is currently available to pre-order on Steam and adds some new content for fans to sink their war-mongering teeth into.

This include two new Legendary Lords – Ancestral heir of Karak Eight Peaks Belagar Ironhammer and Warlord of the Eight Peaks Skarsnik – with new quests, magic items and skills to unlock. There will also be two more Lord types, 22 Regiments of Renown and six battlefield units. Free content like maps will also be offered in an accompanying patch for those who don’t want to pick up the new DLC.

Total War: Warhammer has received a good amount of DLC since its launch in May including Call of the Beastmen, Blood for the Blood God, Chaos Warriors Race Pack and The Grim and The Grave. What are your thoughts on the latest Lords pack to arrive? Let us know in the comments below.

The Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer is about to get a whole lot more grim. The best-selling RTS will be receiving a new DLC pack, The Grim and The Grave, which adds a whole bunch of new content. Check out the trailer below for a quick run-down.

Among that new content includes two new Legendary Lords and Lord types, 18 Regiments of Renown, five new battlefield units with their variants and new quest chains to go with magic items and skill trees. Some of the new units will even benefit current factions like the Empire and Vampire Counts. The Knights of the Blazing Sun and Free Company Militia join the Empire while the Corpse Cart and Mortis Engine side with the vampires.

If that weren’t enough, there will also be a free content update that adds a new Legendary Lord Vlad von Carstein and five new maps. Stay tuned for more information on when all this awesome stuff can be expected to arrive.

The Creative Assembly is bringing a bunch of new, free content to Total War: Warhammer and this doesn’t include the Call of the Beastmen DLC releasing on July 26th.

The new content includes a new AI-controller race; new multiplayer features along with new multiplayer maps and custom maps; a new Lord to unlock for MP and custom battles; and a new hero – the Amber Wizard – with the new Amber Griffon mount. The Amber Wizard can use Lore of the Beasts, making him the only non-Beastmen hero to do so.

Lore of the Beasts brings quite the assortment of new spells for Beastmen and Empire players including Wyssan’s Wildform to buff allies with 22 weapon damage and +15 armour for 14 seconds; Flock of Doom to summon crows to damage targets in a 30 meter range for seven seconds; Pann’s Impenetrable Pelt for a 22 percent damage resistance buff and a 24 percent speed boost for 50 seconds; the Amber Spear to fire an armour piercing magic missile. Multiplayer changes will be made as well to account for the inclusion of the Beastmen.

What are your thoughts on all the upcoming free content? Let us know in the comments.

Total War: Warhammer will be receiving a brand new DLC with Call of the Beastmen, which introduces the Beastmen race to the game’s campaign. A new video for the DLC showcases the Minotaurs, tier 3 to 5 units which are capable of dishing out some serious pain. Check it out below.

Call of the Beastmen is available now for pre-purchase on Steam. Along with the new race, players will gain access to two new playable Legendary Lords, an additional campaign map with the “Eye for an Eye” story campaign and plenty of new units, heroes and monsters along with other game features. This is the third overall DLC, out on July 28th.

Expect more content for Total War: Warhammer especially given the game’s mod support. What are your thoughts on it thus far? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for more information.

The Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer received a ton of different bloody effects (and some random events) and there’s even more on the way. A recent trailer for a new DLC has been discovered, unlisted, by Reddit users and it’s Call of the Beastmen.

The trailer indicates a gameplay reveal for July 19th and it shouldn’t take too long for the DLC to actually release shortly thereafter. The video’s description noted the Beastmen’s purpose without really revealing what they’re after but the basic gist of it is – they’re big, mean and you don’t want to mess with them.

There’s a pretty strong emphasis on sheer melee fighting and it should be interesting to see other units that the Beastmen employ in battle. What are your thoughts on the upcoming Call of the Beastmen DLC? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for more information as the official gameplay reveal arrives.

The Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer has a new content pack available on Steam called Blood for the Blood God. It’s kind of an oxymoron but that seems to be the point. Also, it looks pretty bad-ass.

The pack features new campaign events that “encourage slaughter across the world” all in attempt to appease the Blood God. It features giants, trolls, dragons and much more.

But wait, there’s more. What would a pack for the Blood God be without copious amounts of blood effect? Blood for the Blood God thus adds a bevy of effects including gore spatter on units, limb and head dismemberment (only for humanoids and non-legendary characters though), explosive gibbing, UI elements soaked in blood and even zombies, skeletons and Grave Guard continuing to fight after being dismembered. These settings can be enabled from the Advanced Graphic Settings menu.

Check out the trailer for the new DLC below and let us know what you think in the comments.

"Though previous Total War games had you exploring differing approaches to conquest, Total War: Warhammer injects a whole lot more personality into the proceedings."

You know about the varying factions in Total War and their historical significance. Warhammer is a completely different beast though. It concerns four factions – the Empire, Greenskins, Dwarfs and Vampire Counts – as they each manage their own conquest of glory on a sprawling continent under the threat of Chaos. By Chaos, we quite literally mean the Chaos faction which is spreading corruption throughout the land and must be combated. Though previous Total War games had you exploring differing approaches to conquest, Total War: Warhammer injects a whole lot more personality into the proceedings.

This is thanks to the sheer diversity of its factions – while the Empire may be content with managing its neighbours and building a strong, mutually beneficial alliance for all, the Vampire Counts are concerned with increasing their ranks of the Undead and bringing the entire land under their wing of corruption. The Greenskins are even more unique, constantly war-minded and constantly pushing for that next big battle. These unique campaign elements don’t interfere with the freedom you have when managing your various technologies or relationships. On the contrary, they provide compelling twists to the somewhat tired mechanics of territorial expansion, making your faction more of a presence, a force than just a bunch of units who’s numbers swell. That distinction is important and it makes Total War: Warhammer‘s campaign a blast to play.

Of course, there is a story and each faction will have a different approach to it. You’ll ultimately want to do something about those Chaos warriors in the North but how you do that while furthering your own agenda across multiple war-fronts is up to you.

"Though the perks of the Lords aren’t as overwhelmingly effective as they might seem, the sheer might of seeing one tear apart an entire regiment of enemies is something to behold."

And combat is something you’re going to enjoy a lot. Total War and Warhammer may seem diametrically opposed in terms of their universes but they mesh incredibly well when it comes to combat. When encountering enemy armies, the game shifts to a real-time skirmish based affair. You’ll determine formations and take advantage of the terrain to properly fight your foes. But where Total War: Warhammer shines is in how vastly different and fun battles ultimately shake out to be. Much of this is thanks to the enemy units, ranging from hulking orcs to dragons and the undead.

You’ll be clashing with Bretonnians and their winged steeds while also fighting back with Terrorgheists and Vargheists. Each faction has its own trademark quality. While the Dwarfs are hardy and reinforced with technology, the Greenskins are hulking and comically brutal, bringing Trolls and Arachnarok Spiders to the fight. The Vampire Counts will doubtlessly be a favourite for many players. Despite their tendency to wear out and die over time, you’re constantly converting dead enemies to your ranks when not summing a cavalry of ghouls to do your bidding. Legendary Lords and Heroes, along with magic, further mix up the equation since they’re capable of turning the tide of battle with their abilities. Though the perks of the Lords aren’t as overwhelmingly effective as they might seem, the sheer might of seeing one tear apart an entire regiment of enemies is something to behold. More importantly, each Lord and Hero feels important and a vital part of your plan.

The utter tactical mayhem is further reinforced by the arrival of the Chaos faction, though different factions will have different experiences when reacting to the same since the Chaos can effectively convert any unaligned tribes and armies to their cause. It won’t outright disrupt the base experience – which consists of exploring the world and completing some of the well-structured, well-written quests – but it does feel a bit rushed depending on which faction you play.

"Total War games tend to be a bit buggy at launch but Total War: Warhammer was fairly solid for me throughout my run and past the launch."

Given the utter time sink that a single campaign run could be, it’s nice to see an instant action mode for Total War: Warhammer that simply throws you into pre-made missions with units and simply go from there. Those interested in skipping the politics and conquest will certainly appreciate it but it’s also recommended for hardcore players since the combat is just so damn enjoyable.

Besides the amazing visuals, aided by an improved skeletal animation system that brings every undead unit, every disgusting Troll and every dragon to life, and the great sound effects, it’s wonderful to see Total War: Warhammer running without any major issues. Total War games tend to be a bit buggy at launch but Total War: Warhammer was fairly solid for me throughout my run and past the launch. Multiplayer hasn’t been delved into too much but it was fun to try and match wits with real opponents using these fantastical new units. Those wondering about the annoying camera should take heed though – it’s still very much like previous games where it switches to an overhead view when you simply want to zoom out further. It takes getting used to but can be fairly annoying in the thick of battle.

Total War: Warhammer comes highly recommended for just about every kind of strategy gamer. Whether you’re a Total War fan, Warhammer fan, interested in conquest or simply want to experience some fun battles between absurd fantasy-based armies, Total War: Warhammer is for you.

This game was reviewed on the PC.