Battling over tiberium has had its entertaining and pulse-pounding moments, unless you played Command & Conquer 4. Hopefully, the excitement will return now that the series has gone browser-based MMORTS. And now you can help test the game before it goes live.
[Update: 09:00] EA has now sent over a trailer giving a peek at the game.
Hot on the heels of the announcement of Command & Conquer Generals 2 over the weekend comes word of another new C&C game, a free-to-play social affair by the name of Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances. It's being developed by EA Phenomic, the studio behind the free-to-play Battleforge and Lord of Ultima.
BioWare's new game reveal for the Spike TV Video Game Awards have been just announced. As predicted, Command & Conquer: Generals 2 is a follow-up to the original PC game from 2003. Generals was a real-time strategy game, pitting the US against China and the Global Liberation Army.
The VGA reveal was very short, but it revealed that the sequel will be powered by Frostbite 2, the same engine that powered Battlefield 3.
Electronic Arts registered fifteen domain names late last week, and they're all related to the Command and Conquer, making a new entry in the long-running strategy series all but confirmed. The game is likely to be called "Alliances," as each of the URLs, such as commandandconquer-alliances.com and redalertalliances.com, features the subtitle.
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