Command and Conquer has now been around for 13 Years! Imagine that, little old Command and Conquer has finally entered its teenage years, though for a game that doesn’t count for as much as when a human enters their teens. Anyway to celebrate the 13th Anniversary of all things Command and Conquer-like EA are giving away the original Red Alert for absolutely nothing over on this website.

If you have never played the original…well where have you been all these years? I never got into the original as much as I did with Red Alert 2 but it is still a great game. All this is in lead up to Red Alert 3 remember.

You will need winzip or winrar to open the archived files, it will work on 95/98/XP fine, but you may need to do some tweaking for it to work on Vista.

Get it here.

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 is going to have a special edition here in the UK exclusively available at GAME. What is so special I hear you ask about a special edition of a game? Well check out the list of what you will get for your £44.99.

* Limited edition collector’s tin.
* Five exclusive multiplayer/skirmish maps.
* Bonus DVD featuring: Full-length Raising the Iron Curtain making-of movie with exclusive interviews from the star-studded cast, Concept art montage video (From Pens to Pixels), Bloopers and outtakes from the cinematics sessions, Women of Red Alert 3 montage video, An inside look into the future of Command & Conquer and Red Alert, Tips on how to unlock the secrets of each side, directly from the developers, Complete video walk-thru on one of the game’s hardest missions! And more!
* Game Soundtrack including exclusive remixes of Hell March and Hell March 2 by From First to Last, plus the all-new Hell March 3.
* Exclusive Beta Key to a future C&C game!
* A C&C Red Alert 3-exclusive item for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (also available with the standard edition of C&C Red Alert 3).

Those two things which I put in bold there? Those are the things which make me sit up and wonder what this is all about. Many people have jumped to the conclusion that it is Tiberium that is being reffered to there. However I disagree, Tiberium is not labelled as a Command and Conquer game, since I first heard about it it has been made clear that it is not Command and Conquer: Tiberium.

As such I think we have a couple of clear options for what this future C&C game is going to be. A new game in the Generals series, a new game in the Tiberian series or maybe even a totally new Command and Conquer series.

One to go on, don’t forget the competition to win a Red Alert 3 Beta Key.

My random goog’ling (as part of an upcoming little article) led me to find the following image from Tesla Downunder.

The guy behind this project has made a real working Tesla Coil and after making dummies of the Red Alert 2 units set them up for the shot. He used some special tricks to get the sparks to extend the distance to the targeted unit, but this is pretty darn cool!

Get more pics and information on this here.