Total War is owned by Sega Sammy (Japan, TSE: 6460), which acquired the brand in 2005.[1][2] Total War was founded in 2000 in the United Kingdom and was independent until 2005.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS Integrated Report 2025, SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC, 26 September 2025. Last checked .
Total War combines turn-based empire management with real-time battles involving thousands of soldiers, and its historical entries are used in classrooms. Sega acquired its developer Creative Assembly in 2005. Sega owns Creative Assembly, and the studio's battle engine was used by the BBC for a television series recreating historical battles.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Sega Sammy controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
The 69 brands in video games on Brandtree belong to 18 owners. The largest is Take-Two, with 7; Sega Sammy has 4.
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Sega Sammy is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2004. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 6460.
Sega Sammy was formed in 2004 when Sega, which had left the console business three years earlier, merged with a pachinko machine manufacturer. The combination funded Sega's continued game development from an entirely unrelated Japanese gambling business.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Total War among them.
Sega made The Creative Assembly a wholly owned subsidiary in 2005, acquiring the Sussex studio that had created Total War. The series had been published by Activision and then Sega before the studio itself was bought. Sega Sammy records the year but not the day, and has never published a price.
The parent company of Total War is Sega Sammy, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Total War originated in the United Kingdom in 2000, but it is owned today by Sega Sammy, which is headquartered in Japan. So Total War is a British-origin brand under Japanese ownership.
Sega Sammy completed its acquisition of Total War in 2005. The price was not disclosed.
Total War was an independent company from its founding in 2000 until Sega Sammy acquired it in 2005.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Total War is still owned by Sega Sammy. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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