{"id":1235688,"date":"2025-02-27T17:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235688"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:34:25","slug":"ea-releases-source-code-for-four-command-conquer-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1235688","title":{"rendered":"EA releases source code for four Command & Conquer games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Video game preservation scored a win today with EA’s decision<\/a> to make four Command & Conquer<\/em> games open source. The company has released the source code for Command & Conquer<\/em><\/a>, Command & Conquer: Red Alert<\/em><\/a>, Command & Conquer: Renegade<\/em><\/a> and Command & Conquer: Generals<\/em><\/a> through a GPL license. All four projects are available to the public on Github.<\/p>\n

In addition, EA is adding Steam Workshop support to more contemporary entries in the real-time strategy franchise, including a modding support pack with assets from the series titles on the SAGE engine, such as Command & Conquer Red Alert 3<\/em>. This game genre has fallen out of vogue in recent years. But the C&C<\/em> series still has a lot of fans, so a fresh boost of modder interest could bring new players to the franchise. (Plus, never forget that Red Alert 3<\/em> also contains the single best line delivery<\/ins><\/a> in all of video game history.)<\/p>\n

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EA released meticulous remasters of the first two installments of Command & Conquer<\/em> in 2020<\/ins><\/a>, which included the release of those games’ source code. In December, the company made several of its patents for accessibility<\/ins><\/a> open source as well.<\/p>\n

It’s also encouraging to see EA taking a positive action around a beloved franchise, especially when its recent efforts to remaster The Sims<\/ins><\/em> and <\/ins>The Sims 2<\/ins><\/em><\/a> was riddled with technical issues at launch that required heavy-duty patches<\/ins><\/a> to fix.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/pc\/ea-releases-source-code-for-four-command–conquer-games-223425774.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video game preservation scored a win today with EA’s decision to make four Command & Conquer games open source. The company has released the source code for Command & Conquer, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer: Renegade and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}