The C&C community is celebrating 29 years of Command & Conquer, with events for Tiberian Sun, Generals, and the Red Alert series planned from September 8 to 22. The schedule for each game and mod is hosted on the C&C Discord.
The Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection has been released on the Steam. Each classic title can either be accessed through EA Play or purchased as part of the whole bundle on the storefront.
The Renegade community will be celebrating its 22th anniversary from February 24 to March 3. A dedicated game server will be up throughout the week along with the premiere of fan film Commando on February 26. Be sure to join the W3D Hub Discord for more information.
The Renegade community will be celebrating its 21th anniversary from February 24 to 27. A dedicated game server will be up throughout the weekend and more news will be revealed on Totem Arts' Firestorm. Be sure to join the C&C Discord for more information.
In the newly released DevTalk, lead designer LavaDr4gon recollects the development history of Firestorm and shares what Totem Arts have in store for their upcoming Tiberian Sun-based shooter. Watch the video here.
Kanly is upon us! Battle For Dune: War of Assassins has now been released to the public. Choose between the noble Atreides or the evil Harkonnen and fight across six unique maps on Arrakis.
The Tiberian Sun community is organizing an anniversary event from August 22 to 28 as the game turns 23. For more information, join the Tiberian Sun Anniversary Discord Server.
3 August 2022 – Firestorm Beta Tester Applications Now Open
Beta testing applications for Totem Arts' Firestorm are now open. Check out the official post and signup link here.
Battle for Dune: War of Assassins, a Renegade total conversion mod set in the Dune universe, will be releasing on August 31, 2022. Join the Official W3D Hub Discord and get the latest news on the biggest W3D projects and community events.
It has been over a year since a new patch was released. This small update includes a technical fix for laptops with Intel processors. Read the patch notes here.
Totem Arts' first-person shooter based on Tiberian Sun will be moving onto UE5 for its full release. The Firestorm Assault open beta will remain on UDK and is expected to begin soon this year.
RenHD is a fan modification that aims to remaster Renegade and incorporate many other new features. The official beta has been released to celebrate 20 years of Renegade.
The Renegade community will be celebrating its 20th anniversary from February 19 to 27. Be sure to join the Command & Conquer Discord and check out the exciting events planned throughout the week.
Join the Renegade community and get the latest info on community events and mods:
C&C Remastered Collection Kane Trailer (4 June 2020)
10 March 2020 – C&C Remastered Collection Reveal Trailer
We have a trailer! We have a release date (5 June 2020)! We have preorders!
C&C Remastered Collection Reveal Trailer (10 March 2020)
5 March 2020 – Jim Vessella's update on cutscenes
Jim Vessella answered the hottest question of the C&C remasters - the cutscenes! Many original tapes were found but crucial original footage was not - therefore, upscaling will be the option of choice. Retaliation cutscenes will be included, as will B-rolls as unlockable items.
25 September 2019 – C&C Remastered Collection Jukebox Preview
Jim Vessella has posted a new update on the C&C remaster soundtracks, including the jukebox feature and samples of three tracks remastered by Frank Klepacki himself.
We are saddened by the news of the passing of Eric Alan Martin, the Las Vegas actor best known to the Command & Conquer community for his role as Mark Jamison Sheppard.
Look Who’s Coming Back for the Command & Conquer Remasters
Here is an official post from EA, and here is an expanded version with a few words from Joe Bostic of Petroglyph.
2 September 2018 – Welcome to C&C on Gamepedia
As an overdue follow-up to our initial announcement, the Command & Conquer Wiki (EVA Database) is now officially open on Gamepedia. With the only active administrators (myself and Ssskoopa, here called SuperFeatherYoshi) moving to here, the Wikia version will no longer be managed and everyone is advised to use the one on Gamepedia. We've also been cleaning up some higher-tier articles in the meanwhile, such as Global Defense Initiative and Scrin, so we aim to become the definitive source on anything and everything Command & Conquer in the coming months.
Note that moderation here will be even more rigorous against fan fiction, which has damaged the reputation of the wiki in the past. We have already cropped many articles and there's still more to go. We will be posting in the new admin noticeboard in the coming days to help you help us in that endeavour.
And finally, in the name of the administration at the EVA Database, I would like to thank the Gamepedia/Curse staff for their immense help and patience, as well as their readiness to bring us to their platform.
The active administration (Ssskoopa and myself) have decided to move over to Gamepedia, which is already home to The Vault the Fallout Wiki made the jump years ago), the Official Witcher Wiki, Wowpedia, and the up-to-date Overwatch Wiki, to name a few. Their business model puts wikis first and everything else second.
We will update this post once the move procedure ends and we get an official URL.
29 May 2018 – Yet another cancelled C&C game: C&C (Mobile)
It's apparently the age of cancelled Command & Conquer titles these days. Thanks to Red2.net, we know of another such game - Command & Conquer (Mobile). Though barely, as all we have are a few concept images.
The site's shutdown crisis has been averted. Returning administrator and creator of Command & Conquer Legos, Zee Hypnotist, has stepped up and took over the site's hosting!
11 June 2017 – CNCNZ.com shutting down
The second-oldest C&C community site left standing, CNCNZ.com, will be shutting down in the next few days. The site has been through the development cycles of so many C&C games, and its forums have record of things which were announced from EA's official channels. It's one of the sites that always aimed to keep the community informed on both official games and fan-made endeavours like servers, mods and music. Lots of original content, like articles, community summit reports and the unforgettable Command & Conquer Legos series were made on the site as well, with more recent additions being Music Mondays and Throwback Thursdays. The site was regarded highly by the community, and even the great Frank Klepacki gave it a few plugs. It is very sad to see it go, so please archive what you can (I will do the same as much as I can as its staff member).
For the final time, we salute you, in the name of Kane. One Vision, One Purpose.
CNCNZ.com October 1997 - June 2017
15 February 2017 – C&C Red Alert Alliances - cancelled game revealed!
EDIT: To give credit where it is due, Darth Tenebra was even faster and uploaded the images two days earlier, while I wasn't looking :)
2016
11 March 2016 – Unlogged edits disabled
Following a history of unlogged users' edits being more of rollback candidates than constructive additions, I have disabled unlogged edits on EVA Database. This will mean that unlogged users can still see pages, images and videos like they could before, but if they want to edit or create new pages and files, they are required to sign up first. Hopefully this will ease moderation to some extent.
7 February 2016 – Cameo/icon standards
Since this was apparently not stressed enough, we need to form standards for unit cameos. For games made up to and before Yuri's Revenge, please use the images from the game files (*icon.shp/*uico.shp) - this content may vary on the game language, and all language versions are welcome (English is a priority). The so-called "textless" cameos from Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge are the own work of tomsons26 and the PreRA2 mod team and as such, we do not have permission to liberally use them wherever possible. Hence, those will be removed. For Tiberium Wars and Kane's Wrath, there are already transparent PNG cameos available in the main unit article's descriptions. Cropped screenshots of the icons with the GUI backgrounds on are not considered icons and will be removed once all references to them are replaced with the proper assets. Please do not upload any more of these. They are redundant duplicates that look bad. Removing the small edges in RA2/RA3 icons is more than welcome as long as the rest of the image is undamaged. Please use the PNG format wherever possible, as JPEG doesn't support transparency and reducing the size adds unwanted artifacts regardless of the quality settings you save them under in Photoshop. Lastly, do not name them "icons" if there is just one icon in the image.
2014
6 January 2014 – Project Separation
It has come to our attention that many Tiberian Dawn articles have Renegade images and data. Although they are, by canon, concurrent, they are completely different and related to completely different games. Some articles have the two completely merged (like so) or just have a picture or two to connect them (like so). For this reason, I have started Project Separation to deal with this. Everything that is related to Renegade must be removed from Tiberian Dawn articles and placed in appropriate Renegade articles.
Hit me up if you need more information on this.
Thank you,
Sheldonist
2013
3 November 2013 – C&C 2013 officially cancelled
As you may have heard so far, Command & Conquer (2013) has been officially cancelled. Victory Games staff has been fired and Command & Conquer has an uncertain future.
Since the NDA has been lifted some time ago, you are free to post all related material you can currently get to. The game's servers are still reported to be online, as the team released a patch on Monday before they got the message they were closed, so make the most of your time available for archiving.
5 September 2013 – Command & Conquer Campaign Mission Trailer
GamesCom has come and gone, but has left a few goodies, including a trailer for campaign missions in Generals 2, pardon, Command & Conquer!
Campaign Missions Reveal from Gamescom 2013
7 June 2013 – Latest update - June 2013
The news wheel has finally started to turn. With E3 coming very soon, we now have two generals' names - Charles "Mercury Red" Barrowsmith and our well-known Dr. Thrax, of which the former was a careless slip on Victory Games' side when the new website was about to launch. The third General is nicknamed Junkyard, but we are best to wait to see if this is his real name.
Keep an eye out for all new things to come in the official C&C Facebook and Twitter feeds, the E3 live footage and C&C fansites. Remember, if it isn't from one of the mentioned sources, you can consider it a fake.
16 February 2013 – New C&C info in Canard PC
The French magazine Canard PC has released an exclusive six-page special on Command & Conquer (2013), which you can find here and roughly translated here. It's official - the APA is an abbreviation for the Asian-Pacific Alliance, as many have guessed.
2012
9 September 2012 – Breaking - C&C F2P to have singleplayer!
Mission article posters, prepare your keyboards! Command & Conquer F2P will have a singleplayer campaign after all! You can read the source here.
Here's just a quick update: I've made all necessary categories and templates for Tiberium Alliances. This includes the GDI, Nod and Forgotten arsenal templates (some of them need proofreading) and the game icon (the tag is TA). Just remember NOT to set costs in the unitboxes, as I've already got an idea to sort the unit costs for all of their levels.
Cheers,
Sheldonist
15 March 2012 – Tiberium Alliances Open!
Tiberium Alliances is now in open beta! Since this OFFICIALLY means that the NDA has been lifted, I've enabled non-administrators to post in the related articles and categories. Be careful with the info, though.
19 January 2012 – Recap of recent developments
Hey everyone! I'm Sheldonist and I'm the new secondary administrator here at EVA Database. In this blog, I'd like to recap the recent events in the C&C world.
First, as we all know, Command & Conquer: Generals 2 is the next major C&C game, scheduled for release in 2013. This was speculated in November already, as people skillful in searching the net found some information that would be confirmed a month later. Low-end computer users will unfortunately have to upgrade, as it will use the same Frostbite 2 engine as Battlefield 3. So far, only a few screenshots and a teaser trailer have been revealed at Spike TV Video Game Awards 2011. Two factions are known, the European Union and the GLA, while the third faction remains a mystery for now. DLCs have been announced, including factions, campaigns, units etc. The team at BioWare Victory has already been interviewed numerous times. You can see them all here.
Another C&C game that's in development is Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances, which is a free-to-play browser game made by EA Phenomic. It's still in beta phase, so you can apply on their official website. Unfortunately, the teaser trailer was panned by many people still wanting Westwood to return, so it will surely be spoken of like Tiberian Twilight upon release. Don't try to ask beta players for info, as they're not allowed to make a single squeak about it.
The community also has projects of its own. Community Battlecast Primetime, a spiritual sequel to the original Battlecast Primetime show, has begun airing and already has 6 episodes, including most of the features of its idol and focusing on community happenings. C&C Legos is well into the fourth season, this time focusing on Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge. CnCSaga.com has begun posting a Let's Play series on Tiberium Wars. Even though it's in French, it may come in handy.
Last but not least, the EVA Database has enabled the Chat feature, now available to all registered users.
That's all for now. Keep C&C alive!
2011
8 November 2011 – Updates!
I've been datamining the Internets for the past few days and I return with UPDATES!
Second, attendees of the Games Convention in Leipzig might recall him, here's Ralf Zillmann's Commander Simon Drake, a staple of the Tiberium Wars release party in Cologne and the two Games Conventions in Leipzig.
Last, and probably least, data mining uncovered a ten year old iteration of something called the C&C Bible, penned by John Scott Lewinski. While the bits of information relating to characters appearing in Tiberian Sun sound quite credible and can be assumed to come from design documents, the Scrin background provided is too incredible to be anything else than the writer's own creativity and shouldn't be taken as any kind of source material.
EDIT: Not last. In the last minutes, I've uncovered the Red Alert 1 cutscene script for the Soviets. See here for more details.
21 February 2011 – New Command & Conquer title in the works?
As Kotaku reports, a new official C&C website has been briefly made available on the Internet, but taken offline soon after. According to the website, the new C&C title will be developed by Jon Van Caneghem's Victory Games. An interview on the website with Caneghem stated that:
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I can tell you it's a Command & Conquer game for the PC, but we're not yet at a stage where I can go into any details- we'll be prepared to make a more formal announcement later in the year. We're not just working on a game, though. Our general focus is on the future of Command & Conquer. That means updating a lot of the core technology to create a stable base for future development, and leveraging that work on this first game.
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Stay tuned for more news! And thanks to Ausir for his vigilance!
16 February 2011 – Tiberium covers
It's a slow time for Command & Conquer news, so I've done some digging on Tiberium. Here's the result:
These are all potential covers for Tiberium, as created by Blind graphic design company. Enjoy!
Note: The fugly Xbox 360 strip at the top has been removed for your viewing pleasure.
2010
21 November 2010 – Wiki update
Since we had a mandatory update to Oasis, the navigation of the site has been revamped. Please comment if you run into any problems you can't fix with a page edit or if pages are unreachable.
On a brighter note, the Wiki now contains over 50 images more, scrounged up from pages and portfolios of artists who worked on various aspects of Command & Conquer games (most of them are from Tiberium Wars, although a priceless beta harvester scan was kindly provided to the community by dauntless trooper Nyerguds).
New images are added daily, so this is not the end, far from it!
23 May 2010 – Aaron "Apoc" Kaufman leaving EALA
A few days ago, Aaron Apoc Kaufman, the C&C Community Manager for the past six and a half years, has published his decision to leave the employ of Electronic Arts and transfer his post over to Rick Goodman.
Game Replays have launched their first Tiberian Twilight tournament, one of many to come! The tournament will take place on March 16th, 18:00 GMT and will require the participants to battle in 5-man teams. The winning team will be awarded 100$.
The Command & Conquer website features a new article, this time on Nod's side of the music of Tiberian Twilight.
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I took these initial ideas and created a mock-up using the same video we'd used for GDI, but this time telling the story from NOD's perspective. While I was looking for temp music for the mock-up I listened through to the music Tim Wynn had written for a game you might remember called Tiberium (set in the CnC universe, but never released). Most of it wasn’t in the ball park at all, but there was this one piece with the nickname 'El Scrin' that was exactly the sound we were looking for. It was a musical Frankenstein's monster made out of mangled cello riffs and some very inventive percussion, much of which came from a sort of tricked-out dulcimer that Tim had in his studio.
