Developer History

This is a brief look at the history of companies who have developed games for the Command & Conquer franchise. The years in brackets show the periods when they held the rights to the franchise.

 

List of companies (click to scroll to a specific company):


Westwood Studios & Westwood/EA Pacific (1995 – 2003)

Westwood Studios' 1995-2003 logo

Westwood Studios was a computer and video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Westwood Associates. Their early years were spent on contract jobs which included porting other companies’ games for different platforms, the first being Temple of Apshai Trilogy for the Macintosh in 1985. In 1986, they struck a deal with Strategy Simulations, Inc. (SSI), who published their early original games like Roadwar 2000 (1986) and Mars Saga (1988). They became more noticed by the public with later games like the Dungeons & Dragons-themed titles DragonStrike (1990), Eye of the Beholder (1991), and Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon (1991), as well as BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks’ Inception (1988) and BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks’ Revenge (1990).

Westwood caught the eyes of several publishers, including Sierra On-Line and Virgin Games, which offered a purchase. Although Sierra allegedly offered a higher deal, Westwood chose Virgin Games due to their publishing infrastructure that was already in place. The transaction took place in 1992, and Westwood Associates was renamed to Westwood Studios. In the same year, they released Dune II: Building of a Dynasty, regarded as the first proper real-time strategy game, becoming incredibly influential in the years to come. Dune II inspired many other studios to create their own real-time strategy games, most notable being Blizzard Entertainment, who created WarCraft: Orcs and Humans out of the desire to see what they could do better and implement multiplayer to the genre.

Around this time, Westwood continued creating games which they were already warmed up for – adventures like The Legend of Kyrandia series (1992 – 1994) and Young Merlin (1993), as well as role-playing games like Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos (1993).

In 1995, they created their own real-time strategy IP around the idea and mechanics of Dune II, and called it Command & Conquer. Vastly surpassing their sales expectations, the game became a worldwide hit with millions of copies sold, and helped in further popularizing the RTS genre. In the same year, Virgin Games was renamed to Virgin Interactive Entertainment (VIE). The game received an expansion pack, The Covert Operations, in 1996.

In 1996, Westwood also released a spin-off of Command & Conquer, called Red Alert, originally envisioned as a prequel, but ultimately led to the creation of a separate universe. At this point, the Command & Conquer brand was well-known in the gaming industry. It received two expansion packs, Counterstrike and The Aftermath, in 1997. In the same year, Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor was released, but was abandoned and forgotten shortly thereafter. 1997 also featured the releases of Blade Runner and Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny.

By 1998, VIE was facing financial difficulties and was forced to sell off some of its assets, Westwood included. On 17 August 1998, Electronic Arts bought Westwood Studios and VIE’s US assets for $122.5 million. Among those assets was a studio in Irvine, California called Burst, which EA rebranded as Westwood Pacific.

Westwood Studios' 1998-2003 logo

After the acquisition, Westwood released C&C: Red Alert – Retaliation for the PlayStation and Dune 2000 (outsourced to Intelligent Games), which still used Virgin’s branding in earlier prints, as well as Golden Nugget 64 and Sports Car GT. In 1999, they released Lands of Lore III, Recoil (helped by Zipper Interactive, who would make MechWarrior 3 in the same engine), and the much-delayed and troubled, but commercially and critically successful Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. Tiberian Sun would receive the Firestorm expansion in March 2000.

Meanwhile, Westwood Pacific released Nox in February 2000, by which time they had already started production on Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, the first game in the series not to be developed by the Las Vegas studio, and released it in October of the same year, with the Yuri’s Revenge expansion coming in October 2001. Both of these “delegated” C&C titles became fan favourites.

Westwood’s Las Vegas studio was stretched across several projects at the same time, only some of which were released (to lukewarm response): Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001; also outsourced to Intelligent Games), Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002), Pirates: Legend of the Black Kat (2002), and Earth & Beyond (2002). The latter performed poorly, and was one of the reasons Electronic Arts closed the studio in early 2003. This led to the cancellation of several Command & Conquer games like Incursion and Continuum. A sequel to Renegade had already been cancelled after entering early production, due to possible clashing with the sales of DICE’s Battlefield 1942.

Westwood’s Pacific studio was rebranded as Electronic Arts Pacific by 2002, and released Command & Conquer: Generals in February 2003, which sold well and was well-received despite numerous last-minute design changes. Electronic Arts shuffled Westwood’s assets, and merged its remains along with EA Pacific into the RTS team at EA Los Angeles in 2003, and invited Westwood’s Las Vegas staff to join the studio. Some accepted, some went to found Petroglyph Games in April 2003, and some went to different studios.

Westwood received an entry to the Guinness Book of Records for selling more than 10 million copies of Command & Conquer worldwide. In 2015, Louis Castle and Brett Sperry received the Industry Icons award at the Game Awards in the name of Westwood Studios.

Games developed by Westwood Associates/Studios

  • Temple of Apshai Trilogy (1985) (ports for Amiga, Atari ST, Macintosh, for Epyx)
  • Blackjack Academy (1987)
  • Questron II (1988)
  • Donald’s Alphabet Chase (1988)
  • BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk’s Inception (1988)
  • Mars Saga (1988)
  • Hillsfar (1989)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (1989)
  • Circuit’s Edge (1990)
  • BattleTech: The Crescent Hawks’ Revenge (1990)
  • Goofy’s Railway Express (1990)
  • DragonStrike (1990)
  • Mickey’s Runaway Zoo (1991)
  • Eye of the Beholder (1991)
  • Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon (1991)
  • Order of the Griffon (1992)
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun (1992)
  • The Legend of Kyrandia (1992)
  • DragonStrike (1992)
  • Dune II: Building of a Dynasty (1992)
  • The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate (1993)
  • Young Merlin (1993)
  • Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos (1993)
  • Dune: The Battle for Arrakis (1994)
  • The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm’s Revenge (1994)
  • The Lion King (1994)
  • Command & Conquer (1995)
  • Command & Conquer: Covert Operations (1996)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996)
  • Games People Play: Hearts, Spades & Euchre (1997)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Counterstrike (1997) (with Intelligent Games)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert: The Aftermath (1997) (with Intelligent Games)
  • Command & Conquer: Special Gold Edition (1997)
  • Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny (1997)
  • Blade Runner (1997)
  • Command & Conquer: Sole Survivor (1997)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Retaliation (1998)
  • Dune 2000 (1998) (with Intelligent Games)
  • Sports Car GT (1999) (for Image Space)
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun (1999)
  • Lands of Lore III (1999)
  • Recoil (1999) (with Zipper Interactive)
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun: Firestorm (2000)
  • Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001) (with Intelligent Games)
  • Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat (2002)
  • Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002)
  • Earth & Beyond (2002)

Cancelled games by Westwood Studios

  • Swords & Sorcery: Come Devils, Come Darkness (cancelled by 1999, reworked by Heuristic Park as Wizards & Warriors in 2000)
  • Command & Conquer: Continuum (cancelled by 2002)
  • Command & Conquer: Renegade 2 (cancelled in 2002)
  • Command & Conquer 3: Incursion (cancelled in 2003)

 

Games developed by Burst

  • Spot Goes to Hollywood (1996)
  • Toonstruck (1996)
  • Grand Slam (1997)
  • SubSpace (1997)

Games developed by Westwood/EA Pacific

  • Golden Nugget 64 (1998)
  • Nox (2000)
  • Nox Quest (2000)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (2000)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge (2001)
  • Command & Conquer: Generals (2003)

Intelligent Games (1997)

Intelligent Games logo

Intelligent Games, Ltd. was a game development studio founded in 1988 in London, United Kingdom by Matthew Stibbe at the age of 18. They originally focused on Amiga and DOS games, later shifting to Windows. In 2001, they began developing games for the Nintendo GameCube, the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox, while in 2002 they also started working for the Sony PlayStation 2 and the PalmOS. In 2000, Stibbe left the company and transferred ownership to the company’s management, and in December 2002, the studio was closed.

Westwood Studios called them for assistance several times, for creating skirmish/multiplayer maps for both expansion packs for the original Red Alert and to develop games with the Dune license.

Games developed

  • Imperium (1990)
  • USS Ticonderoga: Life and Death on the High Seas (1995)
  • SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest (1995)
  • Azrael’s Tear (1996)
  • The Oxfordshire Golf Club (1996)
  • PGA European Tour (1996) (DOS port, for Polygames)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Counterstrike (1997) (maps only, for Westwood Studios)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert: The Aftermath (1997) (maps only, for Westwood Studios)
  • PGA Tour: Laptop (1997) (additional design for Electronic Arts)
  • Waterworld (1997)
  • PGA Tour 98 (1997) (additional development for NuFX)
  • Dune 2000 (1998) (for Westwood Studios)
  • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 Golf (additional development for Electronic Arts)
  • LEGO Loco (1998)
  • Action Man: Raid on Island X (1999)
  • Pro 18 World Tour Golf (1999)
  • Action Man: Jungle Storm (2000)
  • F1 Manager (2000)
  • LEGO Stunt Rally (2001)
  • Dexter’s Laboratory: Science Ain’t Fair (2001)
  • Carrera Grand Prix (2001)
  • The Powerpuff Girls: Mojo’s Pet Project (2001)
  • Emperor: Battle for Dune (2001) (for Westwood Studios)
  • Tweenies: Game Time (2001)
  • Universal Monsters: Monsterville (2002)
  • 2002 FIFA World Cup (2002) (for Electronic Arts Canada, with Software Creations)
  • FlipDis (2002)
  • The Powerpuff Girls: Gamesville (2002)
  • FIFA Football 2003 (2002) (additional development for Electronic Arts Canada)

Looking Glass Studios (1999)

Looking Glass Studios' logo

Looking Glass Studios, Inc. was formed in 1992 in Cambridge, Massachussets from the merging of two other companies, Blue Sky Productions and Lerner Research. They were best known for the critically-acclaimed Flight Unlimited series and cult classic games like the System Shock and Thief series. For most of their operation, they published games through several different publishers, including Electronic Arts and Eidos Interactive. In 1997, three former Looking Glass employees would form a new studio called Irrational Games, who would eventually work with Looking Glass on System Shock 2.

Eidos Interactive bought Looking Glass out in early 2000, but eventually closed the studio on 24 May 2000 due to financial difficulties that arose as a combination of many different factors. The studio’s staff mostly went on to Ion Storm Austin and Mad Doc Software (today Rockstar New England), while others went to many other different studios or left the gaming industry entirely.

In the Command & Conquer series, Looking Glass Studios was responsible for the Nintendo 64 version of the original Command & Conquer.

Games developed

  • John Madden Football ’93 (1992)
  • Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)
  • Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat (1993)
  • System Shock (1994)
  • Links 386 CD (1995) (Macintosh port, for Access Software)
  • Flight Unlimited (1995)
  • Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (1996)
  • Flight Unlimited II (1997)
  • British Open Championship Golf (1997)
  • Thief: The Dark Project (1998)
  • System Shock 2 (1999) (with Irrational Games)
  • Thief: Gold (1999)
  • Command & Conquer (1999) (Nintendo 64 port, for Westwood Studios)
  • Flight Unlimited III (1999)
  • Destruction Derby 64 (1999)
  • Thief II: The Metal Age (2000)

Cancelled games

  • Thief II: Gold (cancelled in 2000)

Games finished by other studios

  • Flight Combat: Thunder Over Europe (released as Jane’s Combat Simulations: Attack Squadron by Mad Doc Software in 2002)
  • Thief III (released as Thief: Deadly Shadows by Ion Storm Austin in 2004)

Electronic Arts Los Angeles (2003 – 2010)

EALA's 2002 logoThe studio was founded in 1995 as DreamWorks Interactive, as a subsidiary of the film company DreamWorks SKG. Thier earliest titles included Someone’s In The Kitchen!, The Neverhood, T’ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger, BoomBots, and several licensed games from IPs owned by DreamWorks (Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland, several Jurassic Park games, and Small Soldiers). In 1998, DreamWorks Interactive signed a partnership with Electronic Arts, for whom they have developed the first Medal of Honor game for the Sony PlayStation in 1999 by the concept given by the famous film director Steven Spielberg. In February 2000, Electronic Arts bought DreamWorks Interactive entirely, having the studio further develop Medal of Honor titles and Clive Barker’s Undying (2001).

By 2002, DreamWorks Interactive was renamed to Electronic Arts Los Angeles (abbreviated as EALA), and the first game released under that brand was Medal of Honor: Frontline. In 2003, the studio was expanded with an RTS division formed by EA Pacific and remains of Westwood Studios. While they operated under the same name and were located in the same building, the two teams were mostly separate internally. The RTS division’s first title was Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour in late 2003. Meanwhile, the rest of the company continued working on the Medal of Honor series.

In 2004, the SAGE engine that powered C&C Generals was put to use in the RTS game Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth. The sequel, The Battle for Middle-earth II, was released for both Windows and Xbox 360 in February 2006, and received the Rise of the Witch-king expansion (outsourced to BreakAway Games) in November of the same year. These titles helped expand and polish the engine.

At E3 2006, EA Los Angeles announced the return to the Command & Conquer franchise with Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, which was released in March 2007 and was ported to the Macintosh and Xbox 360. Its expansion pack, Kane’s Wrath was outsourced to BreakAway Games and was released in March 2008, while the most of EALA’s RTS team was working on Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, released in late 2008. Its expansion, Uprising, was released in early 2009. These titles, although initially divisive in the community, were commercially successful, although hasted production was apparent.

Meanwhile, the rest of the company released Medal of Honor: Vanguard, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Smarty Pants, Boom Blox, two Brain Quest titles, and Lord of the Rings: Conquest. An FPS in the Command & Conquer series, called simply TIBERIUM, was announced in 2008 but was cancelled in the same year, the official reasoning being the game not meeting EA’s quality standards.

By late 2008, production on a multiplayer-only Command & Conquer spin-off for the Asian market, titled Command & Conquer: Arena was underway, but higher-ups at EA ordered that the game received full AAA status, got a singleplayer campaign, was sold at full price and finished in less than a year. The decision was controversial within EALA, and some developers left the studio as a consequence. The end result was Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, which was panned by critics and fans, and led to the formal dissolution of EALA.

EALA’s FPS department was rebranded in late 2010 as Danger Close, while the RTS team was rebranded as Victory Games, but would not announce themselves until early 2011. Danger Close was put to work on the Medal of Honor rebooted series, but after the two games performed poorly, the studio was folded again and branded as a division of DICE, known as DICE LA, which would only serve as a support studio for games developed by DICE Stockholm. As of early 2020, DICE LA has been headed by the same company lead as Respawn Entertainment, Vince Zampella, who had announced a different path for the studio and even a different name. In 2021, it was revealed to be renamed to Ripple Effect Studios, and it would move on to its own projects after the completion of that year’s Battlefield 2042.

Games developed as DreamWorks Interactive

  • Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (1996)
  • The Neverhood (1996)
  • Someone’s in the Kitchen! (1996)
  • Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant (1997)
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
  • Jurassic Park: The Lost World – Chaos Island (1997)
  • Dilbert’s Desktop Games (1997)
  • Small Soldiers (1998)
  • Small Soldiers: Squad Commander (1998)
  • Jurassic Park: The Lost World – Trespasser (1998)
  • T’ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (1999)
  • Warpath: Jurassic Park (1999)
  • Medal of Honor (1999)
  • BoomBots (1999)
  • Medal of Honor: Underground (2000)
  • Clive Barker’s Undying (2001)

Cancelled games by DreamWorks Interactive

  • Medal of Honor: Fighter Command (announced in 2001)

Games developed as Electronic Arts Los Angeles

  • Medal of Honor: Frontline (2002)
  • Medal of Honor: Allied Assault – Spearhead (2002)
  • Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour (2003)
  • Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (2003)
  • GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004)
  • Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (2004)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth (2004)
  • Medal of Honor: European Assault (2005)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II (2006)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king (2006) (with BreakAway Games)
  • Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007)
  • Medal of Honor: Vanguard (2007)
  • Medal of Honor: Airborne (2007)
  • Smarty Pants (2007) (production for Planet Moon Studios)
  • Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath (2008) (with BreakAway Games)
  • Boom Blox (2008)
  • Brain Quest: Grades 3 & 4 (2008) (production for Planet Moon Studios)
  • Brain Quest: Grades 5 & 6 (2008) (production for Planet Moon Studios)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Ultimate Edition (2009)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising (2009)
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Commander’s Challenge (2009)
  • Boom Blox Bash Party (2009)
  • The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (2009) (additional development for Pandemic)
  • The Godfather II (2009) (additional development for EA Redwood Shores)
  • The Saboteur (2009) (additional development for Pandemic)
  • Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight (2010)

Cancelled games by Electronic Arts Los Angeles

  • Medal of Honor: Rising Sun 2
  • TIBERIUM (cancelled in 2008)
  • Command & Conquer: Arena (cancelled in 2009; transformed into Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight)
  • Project Camacho (cancelled in 2009)

Games developed as Danger Close

  • Medal of Honor (2010)
  • Bulletstorm (2011) (additional development for Visceral Games and Epic Games)
  • Battlefield 3 (2011) (additional development for DICE)
  • Medal of Honor: Warfighter (2012)
  • Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel (2013) (additional development for EA Montreal and Visceral Games Montreal)

Games developed as DICE LA

  • Battlefield: Hardline (2014) (additional development for DICE)
  • Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) (additional development for DICE)
  • Battlefield 1 (2016) (additional development for DICE)
  • Battlefield V (2018) (additional development for DICE)
  • Star Wars: Jedi – Fallen Order (2019) (additional design for DICE)

Games developed as Ripple Effect Studios

  • Battlefield 2042 (2021) (additional development for DICE)

BreakAway Games (2007 – 2008)

BreakAway Games' 2015 logo

BreakAway Games is a serious game developer based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, established in 1998. Their executive staff is composed of several veterans from companies such as MicroProse, Origin Systems, Atari and Acclaim Entertainment. Despite their specialization for “serious games” (i.e. commissioned simulations for various companies and state entities), they have often been tasked with developing commercial games’ expansion packs and/or spin-off titles. Among else, primary development of The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king and Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath was outsourced to BreakAway Games, with only skeleton teams from EA Los Angeles supervising the production.

Commercial games developed

  • Sid Meier’s Antietam (1998) (for Firaxis Games)
  • Sid Meier’s South Mountain! (1998) (for Firaxis Games)
  • Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile (2000) (for Impressions Games)
  • Waterloo: Napoleon’s Last Battle (2001)
  • Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2002) (for Impressions Games)
  • Tropico: Paradise Island (2002) (for PopTop Software)
  • Austerlitz: Napoleon’s Greatest Victory (2002)
  • Sid Meier’s Civilization III: Conquests (2003) (for Firaxis Games)
  • A Force More Powerful: The Game of Nonviolent Strategy (2006)
  • Arabian Lords (2006)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king (2006) (for EA Los Angeles)
  • Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath (2008) (for EA Los Angeles)
  • Mythic Palace (2008)
  • Relic Hunters
  • Cooligans

Victory Games (2010 – 2013)

Victory Games' logo

Victory Games is a video game developer founded in late 2010, and was the result of the split of EA Los Angeles’ assets. While Danger Close was the successor of its FPS team, Victory Games succeeded the RTS team. It was under the leadership of general manager Jon Van Caneghem, of New World Computing and Trion Worlds fame. The studio announced itself in February 2011 and teased that they were working on a Command & Conquer game.

In December 2011, they announced Command & Conquer: Generals 2, and were into the BioWare label shortly thereafter, being renamed to BioWare Victory. The BioWare label was then dropped in November 2012 and the studio name reverted to Victory Games. Meanwhile, in August 2012, their project was reinvisioned as a live service for free-to-play games in the C&C universe and was simply named Command & Conquer, with Generals 2 content being the first game set to be released within the live service. After troubled development and internal corporate issues, in late October 2013, the Command & Conquer project was cancelled, and Victory Games was closed by EA, with the entire staff being fired. According to our sources, the Command & Conquer IP was not transferred to any EA studio afterwards, and was shelved until 2016, when it was given to a team that would eventually become Redwood Studios.

Games developed

  • Command & Conquer: The Ultimate Collection (2012) (compiling and adapting for Origin; with Kalloc Studios)

Cancelled games

  • Command & Conquer (originally Command & Conquer: Generals 2; in production from 2010 to 2013)

Electronic Arts Phenomic (2011 – 2013)

EA Phenomic's 2006-2013 logo

EA Phenomic was a real-time strategy video game developer, headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, and founded as Phenomic Game Development in 1997 by Volker Wertich, the person behind Blue Byte Software’s strategy series The Settlers. They were acquired by Electronic Arts on August 23, 2006. In mid-July 2013, EA announced the closure of the Phenomic studio.

Games developed

  • SpellForce: The Order of Dawn (2003)
  • SpellForce: The Breath of Winter (2004)
  • SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix (2004)
  • SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars (2006)
  • SpellForce 2: Dragon Storm (2007)
  • BattleForge (2009)
  • Lord of Ultima (2010)
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances (2012 – 2013)

Cancelled games

  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert Alliances (cancelled in 2013)

EAsy Studios (2013 – 2015)

EAsy Studios logo

Founded in 2008 and located in Stockholm, Sweden, EAsy was a studio focused on free online games, and was originally a division of DICE. Founded by several game and web industry veterans, EAsy had around 70 staff, who built and operated the game services Battlefield Heroes and Battlefield Play4Free. In July 2013, EAsy Studios took over development of Tiberium Alliances. They were relieved by Envision Entertainment in 2015, after which EAsy Studios is no longer mentioned and their website redirects that of DICE, hinting either at a closure or a re-merge with DICE. The former would be more possible, as both free-to-play Battlefield games they created and maintained were shut down on 14 July 2015, while Tiberium Alliances was transferred to Envision Entertainment around the same time.

Games developed

  • Battlefield Heroes (2009 – 2015)
  • Battlefield Play4Free (2011 – 2015)
  • Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances (2013 – 2015)

Envision Entertainment (2015 – present)

Envision Entertainment logo

Envision Entertainment is a new development studio in Ingelheim, Germany, led by veteran leadership with proven expertise in online free-to-play games. Envision Entertainment may be seen as the rebirth of Phenomic Game Development (later EA Phenomic), since the 25-strong workforce consists mainly of ex-Phenomic employees. In April 2015, the company took over the development of Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances.

Games developed

  • Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances (2015 – present)
  • Path of War (2016) (with Nexon)
  • The Settlers: New Allies (2023) (additional development for Ubisoft Düsseldorf)
  • Pioneers of Pagonia (2023 in early access)

Mythic (2014?)

Mythic's 2014 logo

Mythic was a game development studio from Fairfax, Virginia, originally founded in 1995 as Interworld Productions by Mark Jacobs and Rob Denton. It was renamed to Mythic Entertainment in November 1997 due to the fact that there was already another company called Interworld. It was purchased by Electronic Arts in June 2006, for whom they have made massively-multiplayer online (MMO) games and mobile titles until 29 May 2014, when they were closed. From 2010 to 2012, they operated under the BioWare label, dropping it simultaneously with Victory Games.

In the Command & Conquer series, Mythic is believed to have been developing an eventually cancelled mobile game called simply Command & Conquer.

Games developed

  • Dragon’s Gate (1996)
  • Rolemaster: Magestorm (1996)
  • Aliens Online (1998) (with Kesmai Corporation)
  • Godzilla Online (1998) (with Centropolis Interactive)
  • Starship Troopers: Battlespace (1998)
  • Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict (1999)
  • ID4 Online (2000)
  • Dark Age of Camelot (2001)
  • Dark Age of Camelot: Shrouded Isles (2002)
  • Dark Age of Camelot: Foundations (2003)
  • Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis (2003)
  • Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs (2004)
  • Dark Age of Camelot: Darkness Rising (2005)
  • Dark Age of Camelot: Labyrinth of the Minotaur (2007)
  • Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (2008)
  • Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss (2009)
  • Dragon Age II (2011) (additional development for BioWare Corporation)
  • Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar (2013)
  • Dungeon Keeper (2013)

Cancelled games by Mythic

  • Populous (mobile prototype)
  • Command & Conquer (mobile prototype)
  • Aerial Combat

Redwood Studios (2016 – present)

Redwood Studios is an Electronic Arts studio operating under the EA Mobile label, located in Redwood Shores, California, USA. They were publicly unveiled on 9 June 2018 during EA Play along with their game Command & Conquer: Rivals, and had been working on it for 2 years prior to the official reveal. Its publicly known key employees are general manager Michael Martinez and game designer Greg Black, a former EA Los Angeles and Blizzard Entertainment employee.

Games developed

  • Command & Conquer: Rivals (2018)
  • unannounced project (TBA)

Petroglyph Games (2018 – 2020)

Petroglyph Games logo

Petroglyph Games Inc., an independent game developer studio specialized in real-time strategy games, was founded on 1 April 2003 by several former Westwood Studios employees. By 2012, approximately 20% of the Petroglyph Games staff were former Westwood developers, although the number of employees has dwindled since.

Their first title was the 2006 Star Wars: Empire at War, a real-time strategy that took place both in space and on the surface of planets, which was highly regarded on release and the coming years, also attracting a devoted modding community. Later in the year, the Forces of Corruption expansion pack was released.

From 2007, Petroglyph released games with different publishers, including SEGA, Ubisoft, and Greybox, while some were self-published. Their most notable titles were Universe at War: Earth Assault, Panzer General: Allied Assault, Guardians of Graxia, Rise of Immortals (renamed to Battle for Graxia before closure in 2013), and Grey Goo. They released and self-published 8-Bit Armies in 2016, followed closely by the Guardians DLC and mutually compatible standalone expansion packs, 8-Bit Hordes and 8-Bit Invaders. In 2018, they released Forged Battalion.

Petroglyph was also working on End of Nations until 2013, when the game was given to Trion and subsequently entered development hell. They also attempted to create a game called Victory through a kickstarter initiative, but failed to meet the goal. The second attempt in 2015, this time under the name of Victory Command, succeeded, but no news have been released and the official website is currently down. In 2019, they released Conan Unconquered, a survival strategy game not unlike They Are Billions, to lukewarm reception.

On 14 November 2018, Petroglyph was announced to be involved in the remastered versions of Command & Conquer (1995) and Command & Conquer: Red Alert alongside Lemon Sky Studios, under the supervision of EA producer Jim Vessella. They released the successful Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection on 5 June 2020.

Also in 2020, they announced EarthBreakers, a tactical first-person shooter game very similar to Command & Conquer: Renegade in gameplay, and briefly offered an early demo to be played on Steam. They halted its development in 2021 to work on a different project. On 30 March 2023, they released The Great War: Western Front published by Frontier Developments. In 2024, they continued their 8-Bit series with 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far in early access.

Games developed

  • Star Wars: Empire at War (2006)
  • Star Wars: Empire at War – Forces of Corruption (2006)
  • Universe at War: Earth Assault (2007)
  • Panzer General: Allied Assault (2009)
  • Guardians of Graxia (2010)
  • Guardians of Graxia: Elves & Dwarves (2011)
  • Rise of Immortals (2011) (renamed to Battle for Graxia in 2012, closed in 2013)
  • Grey Goo (2015)
  • Grey Goo: Emergence (2015)
  • Battle Battalions (2015)
  • Mytheon (2015)
  • 8-Bit Armies (2016)
  • 8-Bit Armies: Guardians (2016)
  • 8-Bit Hordes (2016)
  • 8-Bit Invaders! (2016)
  • 8-Bit Armies: Arena (2017)
  • Forged Battalion (2018)
  • Conan Unconquered (2019)
  • Command & Conquer: Remastered Collection (2020)
  • The Great War: Western Front (2023)
  • 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far (2024 in early access)

Cancelled games

  • End of Nations (put “on hold” in 2013)
  • Victory
  • Victory Command
  • Strikers (announced and scheduled for 2017 but without release)
  • EarthBreakers (put on hold in 2021)