There are rumours that Creative Assembly is creating three new Total War games.
One will be set during the first world war, the second will be set in the world of Warhammer 40k and the Third will be set in the world of Star Wars.
Hmmm....
It seems plausible, I didn't think 40k was likely without a huge amount of work on their engine but it makes sense that if they are going to put that much work into the engine then they may as well make the most of it and create a WW1 game and a Starwars game as well, as mechanically they would be very similar.
I think this is not such a bad situation, I don't like the way their engine handles close combat and particularly not how it handles formations in close combat, I also don't think they are going to build a new one, so this or a Victorian era Total war would probably be the best they could make from the engine they have.