14 DAY TRIAL // Released in 1995, Command&Conqueor was one of the most innovative strategy games ever produced by then. Westwood Studios was associated with C&C ever since, even though they developed other hits, such as Blade Runner or NOX.
Despite the C&C and Red Alert series being a grand success, Westwood Studios was bought by Electronic Arts in 1998, and some of the employees evincing their protest by leaving the company and founding their own, Petroglyph Games.
One of the last games of the C&C series, released by Westwood Studios, was C&C Renegade, a (failed) attempt to develop a FPS based on the C&C universe.
After the failure of C&C Renegade and of Earth and Beyond MMORPG, Westwood Studios was permanently shut down in 2003, its employees being transferred to the Los Angeles EA branch.
But the C&C commercial potential and fame were still exploited by EA, C&C Generals and an expansion: C&C Generals: Zero Hour, being released.
Browder's (one of the Westwood designers and the EA director of the team for Lord of the Rings: Battle of the Middle-Earth) leaving to Blizzard reopened the discussions around the future of the C&C series.
Almost at the same time as Browder's leaving, another Westwood veteran, Mark Skaggs announced he's taking a vacation, and numerous sites rushed to declare the C&C project dead. Immediately after launching Battle for Middle East, Skaggs announced the C&C fans of the EA intentions for launching a new Red Alert based game.
The controversies were so intense, as Electronic Arts felt compelled to announce, through the spokesman Tammy Schachter, that the project of a C&C derived game was not cancelled, but it is in an early developing stage, a launching date being too early to advance.
Even with these official confirmations, it wouldn't be the first time when a C&C game, even announced, is cancelled, C&C Renegade 2 having a similar fate. Whether the Red Alert universe will continue to produce new titles, only EA knows for sure.