With Empire: Total War now available, Eurogamer has an article with details excerpted from their Empire: Total War Live Q&A about the upcoming update that will offer a multiplayer campaign mode to Creative Assembly's RTS game. They do not know exactly when it will be released, and they are not sure whether the public will be involved in beta testing. They offer an outline of the project from Kieran Brigden:

"Players will be given the option of fighting every battle as the enemy, meaning whoever your friend fights wherever in the world it will always be the two of involved in a deathmatch.

"It's an awesome new feature and one we've been keen to do for a while. The basic code is there, now we're getting the rest sorted!"