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Game Company Retools To Represent Iraq War Uniforms Changed In 'Command And Conquer' REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- If you missed the action in the Iraqi desert, you can fight Saddam all over again on your PC. Electronic Arts is retooling its "Command and Conquer Generals" computer video game. Armchair generals will get to battle Saddam's elite troops. The generic uniforms of the earlier versions are being changed so the U.S. 101st Airborne will fight the Iraqi Republican Guard. The company said it started on the updated video war game months before the actual war began.

This is interesting but probably false. Somewhere down the line, the fanmade mods and maps must have gotten confused with the fact that EA made the game. It seems FOX had it right, and many of the people to follow had it wrong. Not all however had it wrong, The Associated Press's Article had it correct. But articles which seem to be wrong include: Channel 5 (The Boston Channel), Channel 4000, and The Bakersfield Channel. Finally,in a side note, it seems that CNC Renegade has been featured on the popular: TechLive television show on TechTV. The story was about the similarities with the war on Iraq and how new Iraqi mods will be coming. You can visit TechTV here.

Update: I just caught the second half of the Today Show's take on the "war in videogame" issue. They actually brought two "experts" in for details. I got the feeling that they weren't there to batter Generals or any other one of the games in which they mentioned, but they certainly didn't do a lot to protect the games. They did make two very good points for each side: 1) These games could possibly be used to teach gang members new ways of fighting and 2) they aren't intended for the younger audiences anyway and usually are played by older teens and up. Well, thats it. I'm taking off for Florida in a few hours but that doesn't mean that I won't be seeing Generals. I'll have my eyes on the news. It seems in the past few days, I've seen more of Generals on TV than anywhere else!