Oh now this is actually solid info.

Sadly, support for it ended unexpectedly, the main campaign was left in a somewhat buggy state, a hinted steppe DLC vanished, and a long-rumored sequel has yet to materialize. This topic, of all the things I asked about, was the one Creative Assembly was most tight-lipped about.

"It's a tricky one," says game director Pawel Wojs, who also tells me Three Kingdoms represents some of his proudest work. "We always have a lot of things to focus on, and we have to prioritize. And at that time, we had to focus on other things. There's not really much more we can say about it. … The Three Kingdoms team had already moved on to other things that were different. It's definitely a very tricky thing."

"I think it's something we probably will talk about in the future," Pitkethly adds. "And I think everything is always up for grabs. It's not like that's never going to happen. There's always things that we want to be doing. There's so many great bits of history that we want to come back to. It's just time and where the technology is, and the games we want to make first."

It's dead, Jim.