Twelve Titles From Top 5 Best-Selling* PC Franchise of All-Time Plus Bonus DVD
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., – November 4, 2005 – Experience the award-winning Command & Conquer™ (C&C) series like never before! Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced, Command & Conquer™ The First Decade, one of the largest PC franchise compilations to date. Scheduled for release in February 2006, the title celebrates the 10th anniversary of this innovative franchise. This special collector’s edition will include a dozen of your favorite C&C games spanning over the last ten years plus a bonus DVD of commemorative video features.
With over 23 million units sold worldwide to date, the C&C franchise has defined the Real-time strategy (RTS) genre with cutting-edge visuals, epic storylines, and rich mission complexities. The series has evolved over a decade, spawned over a dozen titles, and continues to be the genre benchmark by which all RTS games are measured. With its explosive style of warfare, the C&C franchise has grown over the years to span multiple fictional genres, including the science fiction Tiberium universe, the revisionist history of the Red AlertÔ universe, and a twist on modern warfare with Command & ConquerÔ Generals.
“Command & Conquer The First Decade offers RTS gamers a way to relive the history of C&C, and I’m thrilled to see this collection offered in one package,” said Louis Castle, VP of Creative Development at EALA. “It seems like yesterday when we were all pleasantly surprised by the way the gaming community wanted to play this new type of strategy game.”
The Command & Command The First Decade bonus DVD will feature a half-dozen exclusive video features including an interview with Louis Castle, who is also co-founder of Westwood Studios the creator of the C&C franchise. As a special bonus, C&C fans also have the opportunity to be featured on the exclusive DVD. The search is currently underway to find the world’s biggest C&C fan that can showcase and prove their undying devotion to the C&C series via video submission. To find out more information, please visit www.CommandAndConquer.EA.com.
"Command & Conquer The First Decade is more than just another title in the C&C series. This is a monumental milestone in the lineage of the franchise—marking ten remarkable years of passionate fan dedication from one of the largest gaming communities,” said Aaron Kaufman, C&C Community Manager at EALA. “I take great pride in being the C&C Community Manager and am committed to providing continued support to the millions of C&C fans. I look forward to seeing the video submissions for the bonus DVD!”
Command & Conquer The First Decade will combine the following titles:
Command & Conquer The First Decade is under development at EA’s Los Angeles studio and has a US MSRP of $39.99. All games included in the compilation are rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB.
* According to NPD Group
About Command & Conquer
The Command & Conquer™ franchise celebrated its 10th anniversary in August 2005. The ground-breaking franchise was one of the first to introduce players to the modern RTS genre, has spawned over a dozen PC titles, and ranks in the top 5 best-selling PC franchises of all-time according to the NPD Group. Additionally, Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ and Command & Conquer™ Generals were the number one best-selling* PC RTS titles in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Combined sales for the franchise have topped 23 million units worldwide to date. The franchise boasts one of the largest and most active fan communities in the world. For more information on the Command & Conquer series, please visit www.CommandAndConquer.EA.com.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for videogame systems, personal computers and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTS™, EA™, EA SPORTS BIG™ and POGO™. In fiscal 2005, EA posted revenues of $3.1 billion and had 31 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA's homepage and online game site is www.EA.com. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com. .
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Kinda funny that EA's way to give back to the community is to resell the games to us along with our own fan creations. "Thanks for buying our games and making fan films for us. Here, please rebuy all the games and those great fan films you made!"
Hot that they didn't spend another meg or five to give us Sole Survivor too for the hell of it =P
I actually called this move by EA, posted at Renforums (sadly I edited out my price and specifics of games and fan films!). A couple people might remember me ranting to them over AIM about this in full. Errr.. to be honest my price quote was "$30-50", but I'd say that's right on the dot in terms of the average ^_- QUICK_EDIT
I dont have a couple of those....it would be the same price for me to go buy generals and zero hour and td (the ones i dont have) _________________ QUICK_EDIT
I think a lot of people would agree when I say it's an embarrasing chapter that should be forgotten, like that Star Wars holiday special. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
Personally i think community sites should boycott offical EA news and refuse to post any news until they do something worth while for the community. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
EA has more than enough money to release many games without profit, there's no way they're doing this to scrape together the money to make a new C&C game. _________________ QUICK_EDIT
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Well... the surprise is a package with all C&C games.
although i am serious
