according to some guy on tw center he "has a friend who works for a certain developer, but does not want to reveal who it is due to confidentiality agreement"

rumour has it that CA are developing 2 games that will cover the eurasian continental landmass. player will need both games to play as the main two factions: It will feature both ancient china under the han dynasty and rome. as well as their enemies. there is not going to be a rome total war 2 next. there will be less focus on romes rise and more on the imperial period its to be called as 'ancient total war'-not very imaginative. players will have the tantalising possibilty of taking rome aganst china or vice versa

i can not reveal exactly how and by whom due to confidentiality agreements. But i will say, that i have a close friend who is working for a certain games developer. All that i he would tell me was the what i have said. Both games can run independently- one confined to europe and the other to the far east. They unlock a playable world map when installed on the same pc.