C&C Labs News

• ISOTX has announced the details of their new Mid East mod, Mideast Crisis. Details at the site.
• Tiberian Fields will be holding a Tiberian Sun World Cup where you get to represent your country. Sounds like a fun idea, and it will be part of the 10th anniversary celebration.
• Under pressure from some, including quite a bit from me, Aaron Kaufman has said the following about EA's support in the CNC 10 celebration:

  I can assure you that EA (i.e. myself and others) will be fully supporting the C&C 10th anniversary as best we can along with the community. I’ve had initial conversations with CnCNZ regarding our participation and will loop you in on that. Rest assured it is an extremely important anniversary to us, and I want to make sure we are there leading the charge with you guys.
  Aaron Kaufman

• Project Perfect Mod has released version 3.33 of the Open Source SHP Builder. They also are doing TS animation contest (details here to support the CNC 10 celebration.
• Slipstream Productions is a new modding group that currently has three modding projects (Halogen, Defcon, and the new Ace Combat: Distant Thunder, which aims to bring the Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (known as Distant Thunder in Europe) gameplay to ZH. They plan to give an update about one of the mods every day for the next two weeks.
• Red Alert: Chrono Device has a long media blitz on.
• CNC DEN has six new ZH replays, a new ZH shell map, and a train garrisoning tutorial.
• For those interested in what we will be doing for the CNC 10 celebration, I can confirm that I am working on getting a number of people to interview, both current EA employees and former Westwood ones. It's going to be nice to pick their brains on the subject of CNC.

Redwood City, Calif., – July 25, 2005
– Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that it has been granted the rights to develop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic literary fiction, The Lord of the Rings. Since 2001, EA has developed games based exclusively on New Line’s Academy Award winning theatrical productions of The Lord of the Rings, as depicted by Peter Jackson. The expansion of the rights allows EA to introduce players to depths of the fiction never before explored in an EA game. The company also revealed today the first details of two new games in the blockbuster The Lord of the Rings series; The Lord of the Rings™, The Battle for Middle-earth™ II and The Lord of the Rings™ Tactics (working title). With the new games, fans will be able to step into a world that looks like the films, but experience characters, environments and battles that have been inspired by the books.

• An Act of War has a new render of the MH-60 Blackhawk as well as a screen from their first USA mission.
• Cold War Crisis has released two new renders today, the T-64, and the redone BMP-2. They are also looking for voice actors.
• Victor Charlie has released a slew of renders for their choppers, including the AH-1G Cobra, the Huey (UH-1), and the Huey Gunship (UH-1B/1C).
• CNC Shockwave has two new renders, one of their new Battle Bus and one of T55 Mantis Tank; both are for General Juhziz.
• Call to Arms has a render of their new 'Landable Helicopter'.
• Joey gave Lion from CNC DEN a comic he made up, taking some not so veiled (though perhaps well deserved) shots at EA.
• Red Alert: Chrono Device has released an in-game screenshot of the MI-26 Halo.
• Version 0.8 of Imperial Assault is ready, weighing in at a hefty 163MB, with a 56k version coming.
• Planet CNC has a new edition of their mailbag. They also have Part Two of their Empire At War preview.

• CNC DEN has two new ZH maps and 14 new replays.
• Generals: Alpha has two new renders of the USA supply truck.
• Only War has two new pictures, one from a mission.
• Red Alert: Regenertion has the Allied Phase Tank rendered.
• Also, I feel it's time to announce one of the last details in the All-Stars design. For those who don't know, All-Stars is Generals World's current modification, done by the in house modding team. It aims to take the 'All-Star' units from each CNC game and put them into one mod. The last feature is one of separation between the sides, what we've been calling 'subarmies' internally. This means that the Allies will be slightly different than the Soviets. The difference will lie in one unique unit, one unique upgrade, and one unique three star Generals power. If you'd like, you can comment and ask questions in our forums.

• CNC Reborn has a picture of their new Hand of Nod.
• Star Wars: A New Hope (for Renegade), has six new screens.
• Red Alert: A Path Beyond has released the final sketch of the Chronosphere.
• CNC Shockwave has two new renders of units that will be in version .9.

• CNC Reborn has two renders of the GDI Pistol and Crowbar.
• Vietnam Reborn has renders of the USA PACV 3, the USA rubber raft, and the NVA Type 85 construction vehicle.
• Red Alert: Chrono Device has an in-game shot of the MI-24Z Hind.
• Red Alert 2 mod Mental Omega is searching for experienced beta testers. More info here.
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• CNC DEN has 5 new ZH maps and one new mission for Generals.
• CNC World has 36, yes 36, new TS maps, with 20 more coming.
• CNCNZ has a new article titled 'GLA Upgrades' about the various ways GLA units can be upgraded by picking up scrap.
• Planet CNC has a piece on a new mod, currently unnamed.
• Cold War Crisis has a new render and 5 new in-game screens. Render is of the M109 Paladin. They're also looking for English speaking voice actors--more info here.
• On behalf of the staff of CNCGeneralsWorld, I'd like to offer our condolences to the legendary Frank Klepacki on the death of his father Edward Klepacki. Frank's music will be forever remembered in the CNC games preceding Generals. You can find Frank's tribute on his site.
• Renegade: A New Hope has eight new screenshots.
• CNC Reborn has a new Mammoth MKII skin, as well as a new, very well done, Ghost Stalker model.
• CNCRenEclips has a slew of new renders.
• Cannis Rules for YR has been updated to 1.8. See the change list here.

The next CNC will be...
CNC 3 for PC	26
RA 3 for PC	40
CNC 3 for a console	3
RA 3 for a console	1
CNC 3 for a handheld	2
RA 3 for a handheld	0
Total Votes: 72

While working on some pieces of code for All-Stars yesterday, it occured to me that, while the design process is 'officially' over, the design of All-Stars has changed as our steady progress on the mod has revealed some problems with the original design.  So, I took it upon myself to do some updating of the pages outlining all the features in the mod.  Most of the changes are fairly minor, such as cost, but I believe the addition of the Mobile Sensor Array for the Tibs and the removal of the Sentry Drone and Technical for the Gens to be noteworthy.  Feel free to comment on these relatively recent developments.

In addition, our shortage of upgrades for the Reds continues to bother me.  I would appreciate it if anyone could offer a few suggestions, especially for upgrades researched from the War Factory.  I'm certain that Blbpaws could be...persuaded to add one or two.