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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Commander’s Challenge has landed on Xbox Live, according to the Major.

It is available in all XBL regions, has 50 missions, is 2.1Gb in size, and will run you 800 MS Points ($10.00/£6.80/€9.30).

Not familiar with the game? Here’s the description:

Fight for world domination in the all-new Red Alert 3 Commander’s Challenge! Do you have what it takes to withstand the brutal onslaught and relentless taunting of the world’s toughest commanders, including Ric Flair as Commander Hill? Find out as you attempt to conquer the world in 50 challenges featuring explosive new units such as the Giga Fortress, Desolator, and Cryo Legionnaire!

Head on through the link to find out more.

Big bit of DLC heading to Red Alert 3 this week, including 50 single-player missions.

The Commander’s Challenge’s levels focus “on specialized AI personalities and tactics”. Serious business.

Full details on the EU PS Blog. There’s a video after the break.

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Mega-news Monday continues as now news of a new update for Red Alert 3 surfaces.

It’s version 1.12 and fixes the following:

An emergency hotfix that corrects the Assault Destroyer Black Hole Armor error from Patch 1.11.

While Black Hole Armor is active, damage reduction was increased to 35% from what it was in patch 1.10.

Told you it was shit-hot, didn’t we?

Grab it over at GamersHell.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising is now available for download at the EA Store and other online digital retailers.

The single-player campaign expansion takes players into the aftermath of the Red Alert 3 war, with four new mini-campaigns.

New plot twists and the all-new Commander’s Challenge mode will give you 50 new scenarios.

Jamie Chung, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, Malcolm McDowell and Holly Valance, Ivana Milicevic and Gemma Atkinson reprise their roles.

Press release is posted below.

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A demo of the PS3 version of Red Alert 3 should be along in the not too distant future, if this PS Blog post‘s the be believed.

“We have been hard at work on a demo, and it should be available for download in a couple of weeks,” said game dev boss, David Seeholzer.

“We sincerely hope that all of you download the demo and try out the Ultimate Edition of Red Alert 3; we know you will not be disappointed.”

The demo’s just the start. It’s all about the extras, apparently.

“The team is hard at work on the first of what we hope will be many DLC packages for RA3: Ultimate Edition,” said Seeholzer.

“This map pack, which should be available very close to our launch later this month, will feature 3 new skirmish maps for both offline and online play.”

It’s out on March 31.

A Steam patch released yesterday for Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 removes the SecuROM and Steam digital rights from your game.

Next time you log in, the patch will apply itself and will also remove the game-specific license from your machine.

More information over on GamersDigest

EA has announced that the upcoming Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 expansion pack will get a few new cast members.

Gemma Atkinson and Ivana Milicevic are joined by newcomers Jamie Chung, wrestler Ric Flair, Malcolm McDowell, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe and Holly Valance.

“When I found out that EA wanted me to be part of Command & Conquer, all I could say was ‘Woooooooooooo!’” said world heavyweight champion, Ric Flair.

He used to say that all the time back in 1990.

The expansion pack will be available in March.

Update: Take a look at the new batch of cast members below.

By Mike Bowden

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Red Alert 3 senior producer, Amer Ajami has said the reason why PS3 owners have had so long to wait for a Command and Conquer port is simply because it was announced too early.

“I think we just announced it too soon to be perfectly frank,” Amer Ajami told CVG.

Apparently, it was the development team’s single core engine that was the reason for the delay: “It just took us longer,” said Ajami.

The Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Ultimate Edition PS3 is due in March.

By Mike Bowden

EA has confirmed that the Command and Conquer: Red Alert Ultimate Edition we told you about last week will be coming to PlayStation 3 in March.

“Our team has been dedicated to bringing the RTS genre to console gamers and we are excited to have this opportunity to introduce PS3 owners to Command & Conquer,” said David Seeholzer, development director at EA.

“The PS3 is a very powerful platform, and the extra time we have had in development has helped us create the ultimate console RTS experience, with better graphics, improved performance, a ton of extras and some nice exclusive perks that cannot be found on any other version of Red Alert 3.”

The Ultimate Edition newness is detailed below:

• Five exciting new multiplayer maps
• Behind the scenes videos and trailers, including Raising the Iron Curtain Documentary, From Pens to Pixels, the Girls of Red Alert 3, Bloopers & Outtakes, the Red Alert 3 Remix and many more!
• PS3 exclusive Command & Conquer TV programming, including PS3-dedicated BattleCast™ PrimeTime and a special episode of Command School focused on tips, tricks and strategies from the development team
• In-depth profiles on all the Red Alert 3 Units
• The official Red Alert 3 soundtrack

Full details after the break.

By Mike Bowden

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PS3F has noticed this EA store listing which shows that PlayStation 3 owners are to get the Command and Conquer: Alert 3 Ultimate Edition.

Why is it so Ultimate? Well, because you’ll get bloopers, behind the scenes, and developer videos. There will also be brand new maps. The soundtrack is included and there’s a Unit Profiles video encyclopaedia.

By far the most important however is the the exclusive HD version of a video feature, “Girls of RA3,” which focuses on the women featured in the game.

Day one buy, innit.

By Mike Bowden

EA has unveiled plans to release expansion pack, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising; a new PC exclusive single-player campaign for release in March.

“Uprising is a game that in many ways reflects the feedback we have gotten from the Command & Conquer community,” said Amer Ajami, senior producer at EA Los Angeles.

“We’re giving gamers more of what they want – more of the fast, fluid and fun gameplay, more of the story we began to tell in Red Alert 3 and more cutscenes featuring top-notch Hollywood talent.

“At the same time, we’re excited we’re going to be able to bring new things to the mix, including new units and the Commander’s Challenge, which is a great way for players to hone their skills and get deeper into the combat.”

Official blurb after the break.

By Mike Bowden

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Following a pretty conclusive rumour that Spore was about to go live on Steam earlier this week, Valve’s just confirmed that Wright’s latest, the Creepy & Cute add-on, WAR, Mass Effect, NfS Undercover and FIFA Manager 2009 are now all available on the download service.

Mirror’s Edge, Red Alert 3 and Dead Space are all to be added in the “coming weeks”.

“EA is one of the industry’s largest publishers,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. “The EA titles coming to Steam this holiday include some this year’s top PC titles.”

Press release after the drop.

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Nelson’s confirmed that the Red Alert 3 demo’s up on Live.

The PC demo was released earlier this week.

If you don’t have anything better to do with your Thanksgiving, your problem is now solved.

EA’s put out the Red Alert 3 demo, as promised. Get it from Filefront.

It’s free, stupid. It’s got armoured bears, stupid. Download it.

Gamespot will host the single-player demo of Red Alert 3 next Monday, as you can see here.

Blurb:

This single-player demo features the game’s cinematic opening, one full campaign mission from both the Soviet and Allied campaigns, and an interactive tutorial. The full game features 3 full campaigns (all playable solo or co-op online), a skirmish mode pitting you against nine formidable commanders, and competitive online multiplayer.

Thanks, Blue.

Speaking to Videogamer, producer and C&C TV presenter David Silverman has seemingly confirmed that the PS3 version of Red Alert 3 will ship before Christmas and will pack console-specific features such as 1080p resolution and “the high-defness of Blu-Ray”.

“If you’re a PS3 owner and you don’t own a PC and you don’t have an Xbox 360 you don’t have to write on your Christmas or Hanukkah list that you want to have an Xbox,” he said.

“You can play Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, bide your time and you’ll be very pleased.

“We’re looking at doing some really cool things with the PS3 version. Since it is shipping later we’re putting in a lot of cool content and really taking advantage of both the 1080p nature and the high-defness of Blu-Ray and also the fact that it can hold just so much more space.”

The PS3 version was put on hold in June.

As reported by Joystiq, EA’s moved to fix a couple of serial key issues with Red Alert 3.

Some people were getting their key pinged back with “invalid,” while others were shy of a digit for their 20-number code.

From this post on the EA forums:

• Invalid key issue: EA says the issue should be resolved by now. It involved a “small amount” of keys not being pre-loaded to the company’s “backend.” Coincidentally, the same place where customers probably felt like they were kicked.
• Manual has 19 digits instead of 20: Either click here to contact customer service, or resolve the issue by trial and error. The only thing missing is the last digit, which is either “a number from 0 – 9 or a letter from A – Z.” That leaves only 36 possibilities.

So there you are. Go get strategizing.

EA has announced that Red Alert 3 PC has gone gold and is set for release on October 28, with the 360 version scheduled to hit US shelves on November 11.

From the release:

“The return to the over-the-top, time-altered universe of Red Alert–where parachuting armoured bears, George Takei, war dolphins and psionic Japanese school girls can co-exist without question–is almost here!”

Europe gets both PC and 360 versions on October 31 and November 14 respectively.

Thanks, Shacknews.

By Mike Bowden

According to Eurogamer, EA’s confirmed that Red Alert 3 will release on PC on October 31, followed by the 360 version on November 14.

So there you, strategy fans. Don’t forget that EndWar’s out on November 7, if you’re in the market for something a bit different.

After the break. The game looks fantastic from where we’re sitting, but we’re sitting in a place where Tom Clancy’s EndWar’s pretty much amazing, so we’re going to have to be properly nukified by an RA3 playtest to be diverting our strategy attention this Christmas, if we’re being honest.

Take a look.

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