Video game company Electronic Arts (EA) is open-sourcing four more retro Command & Conquer (C&C) games under the General Public License (GPL), this means you can modify the identified games for whatever reason and without consequence.
This adds to the initially open-sourced C&C: Remastered Collection, which contained the original Command & Conquer (now subtitled Tiberian Dawn) and Red Alert, back in 2020.
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This move from EA gives the C&C gaming community, especially the modders, something to celebrate and more opportunities to “play” around with the games.
However, it’s important to note that only the code has been open-sourced (now found on EA’s GitHub page) and does not include EA’s trademarks, names, or assets.
The four games whose source codes are released include:
- Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn (1995);
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996);
- Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002); and
- Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour (2003).
EA’s GitHub page also uploaded a “CnC Modding Support” pack containing libraries, schemas, shaders, and XML files for the games using the SAGE engine, which included C&C games and expansion games, such as:
- Generals and Zero Hour
- Red Alert 3 and Uprising
- C&C 4: Tiberian Twilight
- Tiberium Wars
- Kane’s Wrath
- Renegade
EA has also opened Steam Workshop support to allow players to upload and share their mods on Steam.