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EA is one of the big video game studios, and Command & Conquer it was one of his strategy classics. The video game made millions of users vibrate with this title, as did Dune 2000, Diablo, The Settlers, Age of Empires, or War Cry. Without a doubt, games that have captivated many lovers of strategy.
Well, shortly after Command & Conquer Remastered Collection goes on sale on Origin and Valve's Steam store, EA has surprised with an announcement. And is that provide the source code for the community. The goal is that the developers can unleash the full potential and create mods for this game. And I don't know if that could trigger other projects, forks, etc.
This and sure they will arise new variants from Command & Conquer from 1995, with new MODs and maybe also porting it to GNU / Linux natively. Although the latter is only dreaming, but it would not be bad. However, in the Steam client you already know that you have the great Proton to make things easier for you even if the native title does not exist ...
EA will now offer the dynamic libraries TiberanDawn.dll (C&C: Tiberian Dawn) and RedAlert.dll (this one for its 1996 Red Alert title, one of the C&C versions). On the other hand, it provides the source code of Command & Conquer licensed under GPLv3.0. That is, it will not only be open source, but it will also be free software.
There are already some interesting developments, like that of the Petroglyph studio, which was involved in the Westwood Studios saga (owned by Electronic Arts, and closed in 2003), which have created a GDI Mammoth modified as if it were the NOD. That allows this Mammoth to have the ability to drop nuclear bombs from its cannon. A new ability that he did not have before ...
Official source - EA Blog