A demo for the PlayStation 3 version of EA LA's Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 will be released on the PlayStation Network this Thursday, according to the developers.

The single-player demo will include one campaign mission from the Soviet and Allied campaigns.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 hits the PlayStation 3 on March 24.

Now available for download from FileShack is the v1.08 patch for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. You can find it in English, French, and German language form.

Per usual, owners of the Steam version will not need to manually download the patch, as Steam with automatically download and apply the update.

The update brings the following balance changes, bug fixes, and user interface enhancements to the PC version of the EA LA-developed alternate history RTS:

Balance Changes
• Parachuting drop speed has been increased.
• Aircraft Return To Base speed boost reduced to 25% from 50%.
• Allied Vindicator (unupgraded) reload time increased... Read more

The once-postponed and now-revived PlayStation 3 edition of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 will arrive in March, publisher EA and developer EA LA announced today.

Dubbed the Ultimate Edition, the PS3 release of the real-time strategy game will feature five new maps over the previously released PC and Xbox 360 versions, and will pack a number of bonus videos, including a "Girls of Red Alert 3" featurette.

"The PS3 is a very powerful platform, and the extra time we have had in development has helped us create the ultimate console RTS experience, with better graphics, improved performance, a ton of extras and some nice exclusive perks that cannot be found on any other version," said EA LA development director David Seeholzer.

The PlayStation 3 version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 will feature a slew of new HD video content, according to the game's EA Store listing.

Bloopers, outtakes, behind the scenes, developer strategy videos, and new battleground maps will all make it onto the Blu-ray disc, in addition to a "Girls of RA3" featurette.

The Ultimate Edition will also include the game's soundtrack and a "Unit Profiles video encyclopedia," as pointed out by PS3fanboy.

No word yet on a release date for the port.

The Writers Guild of America has released its nominations for the best-written videogames in 2008, and the result is a fairly eclectic mix.

Fallout 3, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble!, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Tomb Raider: Underworld all received recognition from the WGA.

Only games scripted by writers that belong to the WGA were eligible to be nominated. And the WGA charges dues, so who knows how many games they really had to choose from. Still, High School Girls!

The full credit list, via Variety: ... Read more

Valve sends word that EA LA's Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 was just added to the Steam catalog.

The RTS sequel sells for $49.99. Not jumping at that? Try the demo first. And don't forget that a PC-exclusive expansion was announced earlier today.

The PC version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, released last October, will receive a digital download expansion this March, publisher Electronic Arts announced today.

Titled Uprising, the stand-alone expansion will offer four mini-campaigns for each faction, along with an additional campaign focusing on the origins of the Empire of the Rising Sun's commando Yuriko.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising also introduces the "Commander's Challenge". This feature will allow you to test your skills against a set of nine commanders from different territories and difficulty levels in 50 challenges, all with their own conditions and game rules.

Also look for new live-action cutscenes. Gemma Atkinson and Ivana Milicevic are among those actors returning; additional cast members will be announced soon.

"Uprising is a game that in many ways reflects the feedback we have gotten from the Command & Conquer community," said EA Los Angeles senior producer Amer Ajami.

"We're giving gamers more of what they want - more of the fast, fluid and fun gameplay, more of the story we began to tell in Red Alert 3 and more cutscenes featuring top-notch Hollywood talent. At the same time, we're excited we're going to be able to bring new things to the mix, including new units and the Commander's Challenge, which is a great way for players to hone their skills and get deeper into the combat."

Though declining to confirm reports of an impending Red Alert 3 expansion, publisher Electronic Arts now says that more information on the matter will be released in 2009.

"We will have more information in the New Year," said EA on the subject in response to Eurogamer.

French gaming site Jeuxvideo reported yesterday that an expansion to Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 titled Uprising was in development at EA Los Angeles.

While the Xbox 360 version of Red Alert 3 did not find a place on the console sales charts, the game debuted at #2 on the weekly PC sales chart behind Fallout 3, and was the tenth-best selling PC game in both October and November.

A PlayStation 3 version of the game, put on hold in June, was recently re-announced.

Now available from FileShack are two new downloads for the PC version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: the 1.05 English patch and World Builder map creator.

The latest patch for EA LA's alternate history RTS packs a number of bug fixes and tweaks, along with the ability to de-authorize past installations to get around its DRM.

Major v1.05 higlights:

• DRM De-authorization - if you've maxed out at 5 machines, you can easily de-authorize any installation in-game with a few simple clicks
• Balance exploit fix - Added capture delay on Engineers... Read more

Following the earlier PC demo, a demo for the Xbox 360 version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is now available from the Xbox Live Marketplace.

The 2GB download features a tutorial section, as well as one mission from both the Soviet and Allied campaigns. The EA Los Angeles developed strategy game is now in stores for PC and Xbox 360, with a PlayStation 3 version following at a later date.

As had been expected, a demo for the PC version of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is now available.

A 1.82GB download, the demo includes three tutorials and one mission from both the Soviet and the Allied campaigns. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 was released for PC October 28, and Xbox 360 November 11. A PlayStation 3 version is still in development.

For those who haven't yet tried EA LA's alternate-history strategy game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, their chance will soon arrive: a PC demo will be released on Monday, November 24.

The demo will feature tutorial training missions and two full levels from the game's Allied and Soviet campaigns. Also included will be the game's introductory cinematic sequence, no doubt a masterpiece of film-making.

Red Alert 3 is available now on PC and Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3 edition was recently brought back from the dead and will arrive at some point in the future.

Initially announced for the PlayStation 3 in February and then put "on hold" in June, EA LA's alternate history RTS Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has left the land of limbo and is once again headed to the PlayStation 3.

With the PC version on store shelves and the Xbox 360 release due November 11, producer David Silverman told VideoGamer that "there's definitely people working on a PS3 version and we'll be talking more about that later."

"If you're a PS3 owner and you don't own a PC and you don't have an Xbox 360...you can play Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Bide your time and you'll be very pleased," Silverman said.

He explained that the PS3 version was suspended to ensure that the overall product achieved "the level of quality that it must adhere to to be called a C&C game," adding that "we've hit that mark, we've shipped the game."

The produced teased that the team is looking at "some really cool things" for the PlayStation 3 version of Red Alert 3, such as "taking advantage of both the 1080p nature and the high-defness of Blu-ray."

Update: EA community manager eaapoc, the bloke who started this whole affair, has acknowledged that his initial threat was "inaccurate and a mistake on my part."

"If we suspend or ban you from the forums, that does not affect your in-game account and certainly it does not impact your in-game account for other games," reads a new post. "I had a misunderstanding with regards to our new upcoming forums and website and never meant to infer that if we ban or suspend you on the forums, you would be banned in-game as well. This is not correct, my mistake, my bad."

Original Story: A forum moderator's threat that gamers could be banned from playing all of their EA-published games, such as Spore and C&C: Red Alert 3, for improper forum behavior was the result of a "misunderstanding," Electronic Arts tells Shacknews.

Explained Electronic Arts:

Posting in EA Forums is enabled by an EA Nucleus account -- but access to the forums and access to the games are separate. Players who have been banned from EA Forums are not automatically banned from online access to their other EA games. Players can be banned if they breach the Terms of Service or Code of Conduct in a forum, game or service. Each forum, game and service is managed independently by customer support representatives responsible for that specific forum, game or service.

A similar threat emerged earlier this year, after a Spore moderator threatened to ban users from the game if they discussed the title's controversial DRM on its official forums. EA quickly responded, explaining that post was made by an "over-zealous community volunteer" and was "absolutely not true or in-line with EA's moderation policy."

Update: Electronic Arts has clarified to Shacknews that the situation stemmed from a "misunderstanding," explaining that "access to the forums and access to the games are separate" and that "each forum, game and service is managed independently by customer support representatives."

Original Story: Owners of Electronic Arts published titles such as Spore and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 may end up banned from playing their games if they get banned from any EA-moderated forum, according to this post from moderator eaapoc:

Your forum account will be directly tied to your Master EA Account, so if we ban you on the forums, you would be banned from the game as well since the login process is the same. And you'd actually be banned from your other EA games as well since its all tied to your account. So if you have SPORE and Red Alert 3 and you get yourself banned on our forums or in-game, well, your SPORE account would be banned to. It's all one in the same, so I strongly reccommend people play nice and act mature.

Similar threats emerged earlier this year, when Spore forumites were threatened with bans for discussing the title's controversial DRM, though EA later stepped in to clarify that the threat stemmed from an "over-zealous community volunteer" and was "absolutely not true or in-line with EA's moderation policy."

"What if some moderator goes off on a power trip?" asked Shacker Pugnate, who tipped us off to the news. "Does he seriously have the right to block access to software you legally purchased?"

Faylor's Take: To reiterate my previous stance, I certainly sympathize with the plight of those that have been tasked with watching over a game's official forums. But I really can't believe that EA has allowed this to pop up once again.

Apart from scaring posters into submission and causing even more controversy, I can't think of one reason to even bring up the idea of removing a... Read more

The first Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 patch is now available, updating the newly released strategy game to version 1.01.

According to EA, the 14MB update "makes improvements to the multiplayer game invite system, which should cause invitations to cooperative and competitive matches to work more reliably."

A launch trailer for EA LA's Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has arrived to accompany the RTS sequel onto store shelves. Players are invited into the alternate history of the game and shown the Soviet abduction of Albert Einstein and the rise of Japan--or rather, the Empire of the Rising Sun.

The PC version of Red Alert 3, featuring acting and co-op play, hits store shelves this week with a 360 version following on November 11.

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With the PC version of EA LA's Red Alert 3 right around the corner, and Hollywood's awards season almost underway, the time has come for the game's acting to shine through. Tim Curry leads us through the Soviet story, fully in-tune with the strategy series' predilection for cinematic excellence in full-motion video.

When not watching award-winning acting, players will start blowing things up on October 28--or, for those with an Xbox 360, November 11.

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EA LA's Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has picked up a new trailer. From the B-movie cinematics, to some fantastic pre-rendered invasion footage, to a Japanese giant war robot, this trailer will remind you of the awesome, off-kilter heritage this game has.

With the PC version going gold earlier today, the strategy sequel will arrive on October 28 with an Xbox 360 version following on November 11.

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EA LA's Red Alert 3, the RTS sequel with something for everyone, has gone gold and is on schedule for its October 28 launch on PC.

"The return to the over-the-top, time-altered universe of Red Alert--where parachuting armored bears, George Takei, war dolphins and psionic Japanese school girls can co-exist without question--is almost here!" exclaims a press release from publisher Electronic Arts.

The promised Xbox 360 version of the alternate-history strategy game is still in the works and will take a little longer. It arrives on November 11.