Electronic Arts, well known for being one of the most hated gaming companies ever, has scored a highly unusual W with the public.
They are the owners of currently dead/dormant IP Command and Conquer, which was THE Real Time Strategy game series. They adquired Westwood Studios (who created the series) in the early 2000's, and in usual EA fashion proceeded drain it of all vitality, rush new games and eventually butcher the corpse to sell for scraps and join the long list of IPs killed by EA over the decades.
However recently the series has shown some signs of recovery. The original game was remastered and put on Steam for the 25th anniversary of it's release in 2020 with updated graphics, compatibility and cheesy FMV cutscenes upscaled to great rejoicing of the community. Then last year a majority of titles previously only available on Origin or a ancient physical release were put for sale on Steam.
This year however marks the 30th anniversary of the series and to celebrate it EA has announced that:
1: The 3D era titles (Red Alert 3 and Uprising,, 3 and Kane's Warth, 4, Generals and Zero Hour and the FPS Renegade [yes they made a FPS of the RTS series]) will be getting Steam Workshop support, allowing you to download maps and missions straight into the game. This also comes with updated modding tools so you don't have to break out the XP .dll files for it.
2: The release under GPL license of the
full source code for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, Renegade and Generals/Zero Hour
Gaming boomers everywhere, rejoice!
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