C&C Community News – April 2019
We’ve neglected the community side of the news in recent times, so here is a run-down of what’s been happening in April:
W3D Hub has included full C&C Renegade support to their launcher, updated their 3DS Max 2017 tool, and released Re…
First C&C Remastered Renders Published
Less than an hour ago, EA producer Jim Vessella posted this first piece of art that will be used in Command & Conquer: Remastered – a faithfully recreated Construction Yard in GDI gold colours, along with a development update. He had this to…
GDC 2019: Command & Conquer Post-Mortem Publicly Viewable
Even though GDC 2019 ended just over two weeks ago, the Command & Conquer Post-Mortem with Louis Castle, Erik Yeo, Steve Wetherill and Frank Klepacki has just now been made publicly viewable on the GDC Vault website. Have a look at how the o…
In Memoriam: Eric Alan Martin
Eric Alan Martin, a Las Vegas actor who is best known to the Command & Conquer community for portraying General Mark Sheppard in the original 1995 game, sadly passed away earlier today. Despite a large turnout for a fundraiser meant to help …
Nmenth’s Research Lab: Particle Cannon, Orbital Strike, Vacuum Imploder
It is the first Monday of April, so it is time for one last Nmenth’s Research Lab. This month we will look at some of the more powerful weapons in Command & Conquer, including the Particle Cannon, Orbital Strike, and Vacuum Imploder to see h…
Fundraiser for General Sheppard’s Actor, Eric Martin
While most of you have never heard of the name Eric Martin, you will definitely remember the line “Are you picking this up?” from the beginning of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn. Well, the connection is that Eric Martin is the actor who pl…
W3D Hub’s Intense Update for 2019
On Friday, W3D Hub posted a pretty intense update on what they’ve been doing behind the scenes lately. Apart from a new intro that goes with their logo inspired by Westwood’s 1998-2003 orb logo and a run-down of what they’ve accomplished from th…
Nmenth’s Research Lab: Gatling Guns, Flamethrowers, Ramjet
It is the first Monday of March, so it is time for another Nmenth’s Research Lab, this month we will look at a few of the less-fanciful, but still unconventional weapons in Command & Conquer, including Gatling Guns, Flamethrowers, and Ramjet…
Louis Castle Interviewed by Game Informer
Westwood Studios co-founder Louis Castle is doing quite a few interviews lately. The latest one in this spree of retrospective conversations is for Game Informer, where he spoke about the Command & Conquer series, but also many other p…
Louis Castle on Ars Technica’s War Stories: How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding
Over a year ago, Ars Technica launched an amazing video series called War Stories, in which they interview developers of classic video games and ask them about a major problem they faced during development and how they tackled it. The most…
