Welcome to Command & Conquer Labs

It's a time of major progress over at our in house mod, C&C 3: The Forgotten. We're officially ready to move into beta stage, we're making great progress on missions (you'll see some more in our next update, thanks to our new mapper Predatore), and the art team is doing great work as usual while coder extraordinaire CommieDog gets it all in game. It's time for some of you to see the results. If you want to contribute to the mod by playtesting and providing careful, insightful feedback, visit our Beta Application page to explain why we should bring you on board.

Second, our Head Artist Tsumetai has finished up the MCV and Conyard, both of which you can see below. As always, there's more art on our Media page.

Lastly, Kane Nash has completed another impressive piece of promotional art, depicting an intense battle between the superpowers and The Forgotten.

Over at our in-house mod, C&C 3: The Forgotten, we're back only a few weeks after releasing the first theatrical trailer in modding--which garnered almost 20,000 views in that short time. Shortly after we announced that we would be the first mod ever to feature a full campaign accompanied by high definition videos, we were named one of the top 100 mods for any game by Moddb. The second round of voting has begun in the Mod of the Year contest, and we would greatly appreciate your vote.

Today, we're here to show off some more of our gameplay, revealing three new units from The Forgotten's air force. Below you can see in-game screenshots of the Logistics Blimp (by Nielsen), and check out a promotional piece of concept art of the Sidewinder, Logistics Blimp, and Transport Plane (by Kane Nash).

The Logistics Blimp is a tactical support unit that caters to commanders who love finesse. Gliding high above the battlefield, it offers Forgotten commanders excellent tactical views--permitting friendly units to fire farther. It also can jam nearby enemy missiles. The Sidewinder is a basic attack aircraft. It has one accurate nose cannon that excels at picking off infantry, and six wing guns which spray the battlefield with bullets. The Transport plane is used in a Forgotten special ability, permitting them to quickly airdrop units and spread out over the map. The final unit in The Forgotten's air force is the already-announced Impact Drone. You can read about all of these units on our Units page, and see pictures and videos of them on our Media page.

Remember, if you haven't already voted, the team would love your support in the Mod of the Year awards. We think The Forgotten's story deserves to be told, and we appreciate your effort in spreading the word. Like our group of rebels, true C&C stories won't be forgotten.

An official Mapping Competition is under way over at ProWB's site, who are putting up 3 beta keys as prizes for the following entry categories:

C&C Tiberium Wars/Kane's Wrath maps

C&C Generals/Zero Hour maps

C&C Red Alert 3 Maps

Winners will not only receive a beta key, but the winning entries will be highlighted on the main EA forum under 2POC's Weekly Map Madness Feature.

Map judging will be based on the following areas:
Visual – If your map is considered to be the best visual in the contest you will win.
Scripting – If your map contains some of the most fun-inducing/dynamic scripts in the contest you will win.
Design/Shape – If your map features a structure which is even and fair - whilst providing an interesting battlefield that is appealing; you will win.
Beta keys will be awarded to the winners of each C&C universe, therefore you need to produce a map that covers one of the features to be judged; in order to win the Beta key for Command and Conquer 4 - Tiberium Twilight!

Deadline for map submissions is 23rd January 2010

Further competition details from Here.

The second round of voting has begun at Mod DB for their 2009 Mod of the Year Awards. During this round, the top 100 released and upcoming mods nominated in the first round are being voted on, to narrow the field down to a handful of winners.

Nearly 20 C&C mods have been nominated, including our in-house C&C 3 mod, The Forgotten.  Here are some of the other nominees, from around the community:

Best Upcoming

Red Alert 3

Tiberium Wars

Best Released

Tiberium Wars

Generals: Zero Hour

Two new mods were released recently, one for Zero Hour and the other for C&C3: Tiberium Wars. Both can be found at moddb or by clicking the respective link below.

C&C Tiberium Dawn Redux V1.3 is a Zero Hour mod which recreates all of the original Command & Conquer's units, themes, and even nine of the single player missions.

Over at Project Perfect Mod, Carnius has released Tiberium Essence V1.4, a total conversion mod for C&C3. This mod brings back some of the units from Tiberian Sun, adds new units, better looking tiberium, and high quality models.