http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/59194/New-Command-Conquer-Game-Coming-Victory-Games-Announced

Their first focus will be an "AAA" Command & Conquer game for PC headed by Jon Van Caneghem (of Might & Magic fame). EA also recently registered the domain "campaignforpcgaming.com" but they have yet to make any statements about that.

Having experienced what EA turned C&C4 into, I can't say I'm terribly enthusiatic.

Let's hope that whatever it is ends up just a tad more productive than the PC Gaming Alliance has. :laugh:

Unless it's Alpha Centauri II, I can't really care what they do. I haven't bought an EA product in a long time.

I'm intrigued. Not only did the website (which has been taken down now) mention a reboot of the franchise - and after "C&C"4 I couldn't agree with that plan more-, but also JON VAN CANEGHEM. Few are the names that get me excited this much.

Good news. They really went all out with the last C&C. Can't wait to see what they pull off next.

Meh, they won't be able to recreate Westwood with that, which they shut down

C&C4 was initially being made as an experimental f2p C&C for the Asian market, but the upper management decided to sell it as C&C4 in the west. This was confirmed by a couple of disgruntled devs after the EALA layoffs. Other than that their main complaint during the last batch of C&C titles was that they weren't given enough time to finish the games, nor the resources to support them after launch.

I think the post-Westwood team were a great developer mostly held back by inept management. C&C3 with Kane's Wrath is among my all-time favorite C&Cs, its biggest drawback was the lack of long-term patching. A great competitive community formed around that game which ultimately didn't last because of some exploits that were never fixed. EALA did form a team specifically for supporting their older games and had a patch planned, but then the layoffs happened.

Mark Skaggs, the lead developer behind Red Alert 2 and Generals, left EALA for Zynga and helped make Farmville and are now of course insanely successful.

The new studio is a clean slate and I'm hoping EA can learn from their past mistakes this time.

Also my conclusion based on various sources. There was capability, but balancing both strategic and mainstream appeal is tough work. RA3 came the closest, I think - other than this and Generals, the series was always a little too tank-rush-y for my tastes.

Wow, Victory Games sure has morphed from when I knew it; It's on a computer now! LOL

Brotherhood of Nod will always live in my heart. The nod before it got all screwed up by EA. :sadvaultboy: :violin:

Yeah, I dont buy EA games. No reason to support the evil empire that destroys http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb319/joniscrazy/RoadWarrior-1.jpg.

This.