Steam has some great deals of RTS fans out there: all Command & Conquer games are 75% off this weekend, meaning you can get Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for $7.50, Command & Conquer 4: Tiberium Wars for $5 and Red Alert 3 for just $5 bucks. We’d love to see some of the older C&C titles like Red Alert and Red Alert 2 on Steam — as far as we know they’re free to download, so why not just add them to Steam?
Command & Conquer pretty much revolutionized the RTS genre, although lately the series have been on a decline. But we sure recommend Red Alert 3 for $5.
Much of the hype surrounding video games focuses on the FPS genre but there is a highly dedicated gaming community supporting real time strategy games. Of this genre, Blizzard’s StarCraft franchise is one of the most popular but EA’s Command & Conquer also has seen its fair share of popularity in its day.
While Command & Conquer 4 will be ending the tiberium-focused storyline, the franchise will not die along with the precious mineral. Instead, EA is shifting work for the franchise to a brand new studio dubbed Victory Games.
Unfortunately there are no announcements to go along with this but the studio has said they will be making a rather large announcement later this year. Be sure to stay tuned.
If you’ve been following the Command & Conquer series for a while you’re sure to know that the universe it’s set in is pretty extensive. This would lead you to think that the developers have a huge story concocted, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
In fact, Jon Kucan has recently told CVG that they made the story up as they went:
“We knew we’d created holes that we needed to fill, so we just made it up as we went along. There was really no grand, sweeping plan and I think that’s what made it so much fun.”
I’d be interested to see how many other developers did this as well.
The Command & Conquer franchise has been around since 1995 spanning a wide array of different platforms. However, it seems that the developers are going in a different direction with the game in 2010. The official website has been updated with several teaser images like the ones included above with the note, “Early 2010 will also bring you a new medium never created for the C&C franchise before, until now.”
What exactly will this new medium be? Well, judging by the teaser images we’re going to have to point to either a graphic novel or full fledged novel.
One of my all time favorite RTS franchises is none other than Command & Conquer. Couple this with the fact that the iPhone (and iPod touch) is quickly becoming one of the premiere hand held gaming devices and you have yourself a match made in heaven.
Later this month EA will be putting Command & Conquer Red Alert up for sale on ther App Store which includes 12 different levels and two different sides; the Soviets and the Allies.are they dow
If the above screenshot is anything to go by, this game is sure to be a hit.
EA has just let us know that Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Commander’s Challenge will be made available for purchase over Xbox Live and the Playstation Network sometime this week for 800 Microsoft Points or $10 respectively.
This game is basically a standalone expansion for C&C Red Alert 3 but with a bit of twists and turns incorporated into it. Don’t understand? Watch the above video and I’m sure you’ll see things a lot clearer.
For those of you who remember Westwood Studios, creators of the increasingly popular Command & Conquer series, before EA scooped them up and closed the studio in 2003, this news is for you.
It seems that co-founder Brett Sperry, along with some other ex-Westwooders, have moved onto a new venue called Jet Set Games. No, this doesn’t mean some kind of crazy new Command & Conquer games are on the way as it was announced the new studio is going to focus all of their attention on the 360, PS3, Wii, and iPhone. &
Let’s hope the games involving blowing something up, I mean taking 1 look at the above logo might lead people to believe they are a childrens game studio. Boy I hope not.
Steam has some great deals of RTS fans out there: all Command & Conquer games are 75% off this weekend, meaning you can get Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars for $7.50, Command & Conquer 4: Tiberium Wars for $5 and Red Alert 3 for just $5 bucks. We’d love to see some of the older C&C titles like Red Alert and Red Alert 2 on Steam — as far as we know they’re free to download, so why not just add them to Steam?
