C&C Labs News

You might notice that we haven't had a news update in quite a while. In fact, very little has been happening in the community as of late, as we're in one of those lull periods after the release of a game. Here are a couple things of note, though:

• Project Perfect Mod has a new version of their Tiberium Essence mod for C&C 3.
• Since EA has essentially abandoned the pack, the C&C community has released an unofficial 1.03 patch for the C&C: The First Decade compilation.
• An RA3 demo is available.

In addition, we've been hard at work here at Generals World and C&C Labs. We're making good progress on all our in house projects, and we're getting close to debuting something relatively soon. Stick around!

The online gaming network GameRanger, which has supported Mac games since 1999, has just expanded its support to the PC. The service currently supports 521 PC games, including C&C Generals, Zero Hour, C&C 3 Tiberium Wars, and Kane's Wrath.

According to founder Scott Kevill, GameRanger aims to make it quick and easy to play your friends online -- even if they are behind a router or firewall.

If you're sick of the Generals or C&C 3 Online user interface, or if you tend to have problems connecting to other players, it may be worthwhile to give GameRanger a try. If you do, let us know what you think.

GameRanger plans to add support for Red Alert 3 in the future.

Edit: Support for Red Alert 3 has now been added!

We've released eight new renders for our in-house mod, "The Red Alert"--a mod which aims to recreate the original Red Alert game in the detailed Red Alert 3 engine. Here you can see some of the new renders below, all made by Tsumetai:

In a DVD included with Red Alert 3 Premier Edition, Mike Verdu hints at the next C&C game, saying that we'll "hear more in early 2009." The other fansites that I've read are all speculating that it's another Generals game. I absolutely disagree. I think it's an expansion to Red Alert 3. I think Generals is dead and done; EA would do as well pursuing a new intellectual property than the one attempting to retrofit a story onto Generals to create a sequel. Take it for what it's worth.