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Command and Conquer is the greatest RTS game in history, and now it's just $3Nov 29, 2024 - PCGamesNCommand and Conquer is in a strange limbo right now. Earlier this year, the entire RTS series was repackaged for a new release on Steam. Very recently, the forgotten MMO-inflected spinoff Tiberium Alliances also appeared on Valve's store. But with Westwood gone and EA's intentions unclear, it's not certain where the future of C&C lies. And so, we look to the past. Total Annihilation, Age of Empires, and Homeworld are renowned as classics of the genre. Today, we have Company of Heroes, Total War, and Stormgate. But the greatest RTS games of all time are still the first Command and Conquer, also known as Tiberian Dawn, and its pseudo sequel Red Alert. Relaunched as the superlative Command and Conquer Remastered Collection, you can now get them both for just $3. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: RTS Command and Conquer Remastered is 75% off in Steam's Winter Sale Get Baldur's Gate 3's spiritual predecessor for the price of a reroll We basically just got a new Command and Conquer game Now on Steam: C&C Ultimate CollectionMar 7, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsDear C&C Community, It’s been a few years since I had the opportunity to reach out and engage with you directly. I’ve truly missed that. I hope you have all stayed safe, healthy, and positive since my last post in September of 2020. I realize many of you have been wondering about the status of Command & Conquer over the past several years. After the launch of the first C&C Remastered Collection, I told our Community Council I would continue to try and find opportunities to support the C&C community and franchise wherever possible. With that in mind, I do have an announcement we think the entire C&C Community can get excited about. The C&C Ultimate Collection is now live on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39394/Command__Conquer_The_Ultimate_Collection/ How did this come to happen? Well, a while back I heard some team members at EA had the desire to launch some of our classic titles on Steam. After hearing about this initiative, several of us proposed we include the C&C Ultimate Collection. We knew this has been a request of the C&C community for over a decade, and has been an equal goal of us passionate C&C folks around the company. As such, a dedicated strike team here at EA has been pushing to make this a reality - but we knew we couldn't do it alone. So in the spirit of our community collaboration from the Remastered Collection, we reached out to a small group of the C&C Community to understand how we could best deliver the Ultimate Collection on Steam. The feedback and collaboration has once again been invaluable. With improvements like better compatibility for modern operating systems and additional supported languages for both the Steam and EA App versions, we believe this is the best release of the Ultimate Collection to date. Alongside the launch of the Ultimate Collection on Steam, we are also excited to announce the release of the beloved map editors FinalSun and FinalAlert 2 under the GPL version 3.0 license, which can also be launched directly from the Steam version of Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2. Now over 20 years since their initial release, original creator Matthias Wagner has generously repackaged these classic editors into a more compatible version for 2024. This was achievable thanks to the technical collaboration with Luke "CCHyper" Feenan, and the kindness of Olaf van der Spek, who has graciously released his XCC Library under the GPL 3.0 license as part of this effort. We cannot thank Matthias, Luke, and Olaf enough for making this a reality for the C&C community, and are eager to see where the tools and content creation go from here. A huge thank you to the community playtesters who helped provide feedback on this version of the Ultimate Collection, and the organizations of CnCNet, W3DHub, and C&C Online for continuing to support these classic titles. We hope you all enjoy these improvements to the C&C Ultimate Collection - available today on Steam. Until next time. Cheers, Jim Vessella RTS Command and Conquer Remastered is 75% off in Steam's Winter SaleDec 27, 2023 - PCGamesNCommand and Conquer is the real-time strategy game that redefined the genre and, thanks to Steam's Winter Sale, you can snag the remastered collection for 75% off. Even better, it's bundled with the remastered release of sidequel Red Alert and all the expansion packs. How can you go wrong with a deal like this? Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Get Baldur's Gate 3's spiritual predecessor for the price of a reroll We basically just got a new Command and Conquer game Command and Conquer Remastered is ridiculously cheap right now Get Baldur's Gate 3's spiritual predecessor for the price of a rerollAug 10, 2023 - PCGamesNOne of my favorite things about Baldur's Gate 3 is how much it harkens back to Dragon Age: Origins, one of the best PC games ever made. Whether you're infatuated with Astarion, or have fallen in love with Baldur's Gate 3's fantasy aesthetic, Dragon Age is a must play ahead of Dreadwolf - and it's available for cheap in this new Steam sale. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: We basically just got a new Command and Conquer game Command and Conquer Remastered is ridiculously cheap right now Command & Conquer: Renegade remake's Tiberian Sun expansion is aiming for Summer We basically just got a new Command and Conquer gameJun 26, 2023 - PCGamesNFrom Red Alert to Tiberian Dawn, to Red Alert 2, Generals, and Tiberian Sun, Command and Conquer, the iconic strategy game series by EA and Westwood, has seen a lot of new additions over the years. One mod, however, attempts to mix the best elements of these games with brand-new units and levels, and it's just received a huge update adding ten missions, complete with an original soundtrack. Combined Arms now essentially serves up a new Command and Conquer campaign. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Command and Conquer Remastered is ridiculously cheap right now Command & Conquer: Renegade remake's Tiberian Sun expansion is aiming for Summer Command & Conquered Remastered adds a beacon system, local replays, and more Command & Conquer Remastered Collection Is Now on The Play ListDec 15, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsEA Play members can now join the battle as the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection joins The Play List. The RTS that defined a genre 25 years ago is back – and now yours to enjoy with EA Play* on PC! Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection includes Command & Conquer™ and Command & Conquer™ Red Alert, all three expansion packs, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus gallery of unreleased FMV footage, modding support, and over seven hours of legendary remastered music by Frank Klepacki. If you’re a member all you have to do is visit the Play List, download, and prepare for battle. Not a member of EA Play yet? Joining is easy, and it’s a great way to get more from the games you love – like access to member-only in-game challenges, rewards, and content, the chance to play early trials of select new games, and instant access to a collection of our best-loved series and top titles. Plus, save on EA digital purchases with a 10% member discount. Welcome back, Commander. Your mission begins now! Follow Command & Conquer on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. *CONDITIONS, LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS APPLY. SEE EA.COM/EA-PLAY/TERMS FOR DETAILS. AGE RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY. The Steam Awards- Best SoundtrackNov 25, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsFor your consideration. Nominate COMMAND & CONQUER™ REMASTERED COLLECTION for the "Best Soundtrack" AwardThe best strategy games on PCNov 6, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Looking back at it now, 2020 doesn’t feel like a banner year for strategy games, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few gems. The list below – gathered by a panel of experts and regularly updated – contains games from as recently as 12 months ago alongside classics from as far back as 28 years ago. They’re all games we think you could play and love right now. (more…) 25th Anniversary and Modding GuidelinesSep 25, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsFellow Command & Conquer fans, As many of you know, this weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the Command & Conquer franchise. It was back on September 26th, 1995 that Westwood Studios released the original Command & Conquer (in North America at least), in a launch which would define the RTS genre for years to come. Whether you’ve been part of the C&C story since day one, or joined the franchise with one of the beloved sequels, you’re all part of this C&C community because this franchise had an impact on your gaming journey. This is certainly the case for me, and I’ve found myself traveling down memory lane over the past week. I’ve been thinking about my childhood friends playing the original games, where after school we would huddle around a 15” CRT monitor taking turns in the hot seat. I’ve been thinking about my colleagues from EALA developing C&C3 and Kane’s Wrath, staying late into the night testing one more multiplayer match. And especially reflecting on the past two years, getting to return to the franchise and collaborating with all of you on bringing the Remastered Collection to life. And even though C&C has changed hands to many different studios and teams during these 25 years, the one constant through it all has been the C&C community. The community has been at the center of keeping the franchise alive, and much of that is due to the mods and online infrastructure the community has created. Over the past several years, we’ve been pinged by many community members asking what is allowed in terms of modding. We’ve done our best to work with community leaders and clarify this in terms of mods for the Remastered Collection, but we wanted to put together a set of guidelines which could apply to the entire C&C franchise. So over the past several months we’ve worked with our legal team and gathered feedback from the community council to define an official set of C&C Modding guidelines. The goal of these guidelines is to provide modders the information they need to create content within the accepted spectrum, so everyone can have more confidence their content will be able to thrive. You can review the new guidelines on the official C&C website here: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-remastered/modding-faq We hope these modding guidelines are a positive way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Command & Conquer, so we can continue to celebrate C&C milestones well into the future. If you have friends who have been interested in giving the franchise a try, the Remastered Collection is currently 25% off on Steam to commemorate the 25th year anniversary. We’ve also been informed the Limited Run Collector’s Editions should begin shipping soon, although it may take a few weeks to arrive at your specific location. Here’s to 25 years of Command & Conquer, and cheers to everyone who has been part of this journey. Cheers, Jim Vessella Jimtern This announcement may change as we listen to community feedback and continue deve...Here are some of the best offers in the Humble End of Summer SaleAug 28, 2020 - EurogamerNow that everyone else has had their turn to celebrate the season with cheap games, Humble has decided it's their time to have a go and see things out with their End of Summer Sale. I'll take anything that suggests we're nearer to the end of 2020 right now. And what better distraction is there than more games? Especially if they remind us of simpler times. Enter the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection for just £5.93. For a game that launched back in June to be this heavily discounted by 67 per cent already is quite something. This bundle of RTS classics features fully-remastered versions of both Command & Conquer and Red Alert (plus expansion packs) with 4K graphics, reworked music, upscaled FMVs, improved UI, modern online features and in-built mod support. Altogether, Digital Foundry called it one of the greatest remasters of all time, so definitely don't skip it at this price. As a heads up, this is an Origin key and not a Steam key. Read more Command & Conquer Remastered Collection was a success - so what's next for the revived RTS franchise?Aug 17, 2020 - EurogamerI think it's fair to say Command & Conquer Remastered Collection was a resounding success. EA's nostalgia-fuelled real-time strategy revival was a hit with fans and critics alike when it launched in June - and it saw big sales on Steam. But as its developers continue to support the game with balance updates, tweaks and mod support, the inevitable question is this: what's next for Command & Conquer? I've seen plenty of requests for EA to continue to work with the developers at Petroglyph Games and Lemon Sky Studios on more remasters of classic C&C games. It seems natural for EA to tackle Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 next. But I also wonder whether the success of Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, which, let's be honest, is the first good thing to happen to the franchise in a decade (Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, Command & Conquer: Generals 2 and mobile game Command & Conquer Rivals all failed in various ways) means the powers that be at EA may now consider the time right to invest in a new, fully-fledged Command & Conquer game. When I recently interviewed EA producer Jim Vessella, who led the Command & Conquer remastered project, to ask why the developers left in a 25-year-old exploit, I thought it would be a good chance to quiz him on what's next, where the Command & Conquer franchise finds itself, and the future of the RTS genre. Read more Why the Command & Conquer Remastered developers left in a 25-year-old exploitAug 10, 2020 - EurogamerOne of the brilliant things about Command & Conquered Remastered is how it remains faithful to the original real-time strategy classic while updating it in all the right areas. But one area the developers left alone was a 25-year-old exploit. You'd think they'd want to fix it - but not this one, because it gave players a fighting chance against the rock hard AI. I'm talking about Command & Conquer's infamous sandbag exploit - aka the best strategy against the AI on the hardest missions. Read more New Game Update for C&C Remastered CollectionAug 6, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsFellow Command & Conquer fans, Today we’ll be launching our second major update for the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. As I’ve been sharing with you over the past month via our Beta Patch updates, this Patch focuses on the following items: LAN Play Balance adjustments to address several key issues Incorporating community maps as official Quickmatch maps Dozens of QoL improvements and bug fixes across the board Upcoming Quickmatch leaderboard reset Note: the Quickmatch changes will likely go into effect a few hours after the Patch goes live. But before we get too deep into the detailed list, let me provide context on each of the key items in this patch. LAN Play: As requested by the community over the course of the project, this update includes our official implementation of LAN Play. LAN Play allows players to enjoy Mod content in multiplayer, and should be an evergreen way to enjoy multiplayer far into the future. We did our best to test this feature amongst the Covid situation during development, along with attempting to get feedback from the community via Beta patches. But given the variety of ways people could play over VPN and with Mods, we expect there still to be some quirks in the system. Please continue to provide feedback so we can make any refinements going forward. Balance Adjustments: Over the past several weeks we’ve been collaborating with the community to tackle a few key balance items in the game. To see further context for these adjustments and read the full community discussion, please refer to my previous post here. Community Maps: A few weeks ago we announced the initiative of incorporating community made content into the actual game update so they can be officially utilized in Multiplayer and Quickmatch. We have decided to keep the first batch of Community maps as revealed, but have also made a few adjustments of the previous maps based on community feedback. The full details of these maps can be seen in the patch notes below. Quickmatch Leaderboard Reset: As mentioned in my previous post, we are getting ready to reset the Quickmatch ladder to get a fresh start on all these Quickmatch changes. This reset will likely happen in the next 48 hours if the patch launch here goes smoothly. In addition, one new feature of this patch is the ability to view the Leaderboard results of previous seasons (which should take a snapshot of the final results of this first season). However, on this note I wanted to address a key topic with the leaderboard. We’ve seen reports, evidence, and even people admitting about “boosting” their leaderboard rank with alternate accounts. We feel this breaks the ethics of the Quickmatch landscape and undermines the leaderboard system. Being part of the C&C community should be a positive and fair experience for all players. So here’s the deal, we’re going to give a pass on this previous season, but this behavior will not be acceptable after the leaderboard reset. I respectfully ask everyone to plea...The Remarkable Story Behind Command & Conquer's Remastering | Noclip DocumentaryJul 8, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsAnd then check out some more of the amazing documentaries from Noclip HERE.COMMAND & CONQUER™ REMASTERED COLLECTION added to the Steam Summer SaleJul 3, 2020 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/37034907/f3947f22c575f1b489f91cb7a35b5e4db220499c.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_Remastered_Collection/ Command & Conquer Remastered soundtracks now on Spotify and other streaming servicesJun 29, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Following the launch of the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection earlier this month, EA have now slammed its soundtracks onto streaming services for your sonic satisfaction. Along with its remastered versions of the C&C and Red Alert soundtracks, they’ve put up an album of hard-rockin’ new recordings from C&C composer Frank Klepacki and his band, The Tiberian Sons. Put a pep in your step on those morning runs with Hell March, why don’t you. (more…) Command & Conquer Remastered Collection's first patch eases up Hard Mode and adds private lobbiesJun 22, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAccording to RPS’s Command & Conquer Remastered Collection review, the revitalized classic RTS is “both precisely as good and exactly as dated as it’s supposed to be.” Even so, Petroglyph have found a few places to improve and have released the first round of bug fixes and additions. They’ve eased up on Hard Mode and have added private game lobbies, among other fixes. (more…) Major update releasedJun 22, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsFellow Command & Conquer fans, Today we’ll be launching our major update for the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection. As mentioned in the post last week, our goal with this update was multifold: Complete several of the top community requested features which just missed the launch date Implement some additional quality-of-life improvements Address many of the top bugs which have been seen in the launch version Iterate on our Quickmatch ruleset Below you will find the full list of Patch Notes for this update. But before we get too deep into the detailed list, there are some higher-level items to mention as part of this patch. Stuttering Issue: This patch aims to improve the framerate stuttering issue some people have been experiencing since launch. Admittedly this issue has been complicated to address. Effectively what we ended up having to do was refactor the way textures are loaded by the game and push the majority of that loading before you get into gameplay. This will have two primary impacts for everyone going forward: 1) Loading the overall game may take longer than before 2) Loading the first map may take longer than before These longer load times would be most seen after a fresh restart of the computer. While we understand this extra loading time may not be ideal, our testing indicates gameplay performance should be improved across the board, and this felt like a worthwhile tradeoff. We want to continue gathering feedback / data on this issue, so if you have been experiencing the stuttering issue with the launch version, please let us know if this patch improved your gameplay performance. Mod Compatibility: Because this patch includes updates to the TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll files, it’s likely that previous mods will no longer be compatible with this updated version of the game. Modders will need to update their mods with the latest code and refresh their mods on the Steam Workshop. Certain mods may also need to be repackaged to be compatible with the new texture process above, and we’ve provided a script / tool to assist with this in the root install directory for the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, within the folder called “SOURCECODE/SCRIPTS.” Once a mod has been updated on the Steam Workshop, players will need to follow a few steps to update and reactivate their mods: Disable the mod in the Mods Menu Unsubscribe from the mod in the in-game Workshop Mods menu Quit and restart the game Re-subscribe to the mod via the Workshop Mods menu Activate the mod and restart the game as prompted The updated mod should then work as intended Players may experience some issues if they try to activate mods that are not updated to the patch version. Detailed Patch Notes: With those items in mind, please see below for all the updates made in this patch: New Features: Added the ability to host Private Game Lobbies: The host must check the Private Game box in the setup screen Hosts can then choose a four-digit passcode for their game Pr...Every remastered game should have an upgrade sequence like Command & Conquer Remastered CollectionJun 9, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunYou know you’re onto a winner when your heart swells ten times its normal size out of pure excitement from the boot-up sequence for the remaster of a game you never played. I was far too young to even comprehend Command & Conquer when it first came out in 1995, and to my great shame it’s never been something I’ve sought out in the intervening years. But watching Command & Conquer Remastered Collection‘s newly re-tooled EVA opening sequence had me pumping my fists and bellowing with excitement like I’d been down there in the fan trenches all along. (more…) Command & Conquer Remastered Collection reviewJun 8, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunCommand & Conquer Remastered Collection review It’s as close to a perfect restoration of two genre-defining real-time strategy games as you’ll get – but the soporific effects of nostalgia do eventually begin to wear thin. * Developer: Petroglyph; * Publisher: Electronic Arts; * Release: Out now; * On: Windows; * From: Steam, Origin, Humble, GOG; * Price: £18/€20/$20; Who remembers the 90s? Teachers cowering under their desks, living in constant fear of gunge reprisal. Dave Benson Phillips stomping a Furby to death behind a Woolworths. Princess Diana slowly opening her mouth on live television to reveal the very first Tamagotchi. And then there was you, a horrid greasy goblin person hunched over a yellowing CRT monitor in the corner of the living room. On the screen is Command & Conquer, the hot new videogame from Electronic Arts and Westwood Studios, and the first ever strategy game to feature an electric guitar. (more…)
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