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Our Music Monday feature is back again, this time with one of the lesser exposed tracks from Red Alert 2 - Tension, an upbeat electronic track from start to finish. A new track will be posted next Monday. And as always, don't forget to share this on social media using the hashtags #CnCMusicMonday and #MusicMonday.

Another Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge server alternative run by fans has emerged recently. NGWOL, much like XWIS, mimicks the old Westwood Online server and utilizes its lobby structure. Ladders for both games are available and functional, and the tool provided can have the games switch back and forth between NGWOL and XWIS. Information on signing up and connecting can be found on their website.

In this week's Throwback Thursday feature, we look back at the two units which the fans wanted to see in C&C 3: Tiberium Wars and were returned in the Kane's Wrath expansion - the Steel Talons versions of the Titan and the Wolverine. Filling the same roles as in C&C: Tiberian Sun, these redesigned mechs were a worthy throwback to the Second Tiberium War, and were no weaker than their Third Tiberium War counterparts from any side. In fact, they got a few purchasable upgrades of their own - the railgun and adaptive armour for the Titan, and AP ammo for the Wolverine. Remember, you can click on the preview to see a larger and more detailed image. Don't forget to check out the Throwback Thursdays archives if you've missed a week. Check back again next Thursday for another Throwback. Send in your ideas for future instalments. We also encourage you to share this on social media using the hash tags #ThrowbackThursday, #CnCTBT and #CNCNZTBT.

Chrissyx's site still has the turnaround videos linked to one of EA's file servers. http://files.ea.com/downloads/eagames/cc/tiberium/KW_Wolverine_Render_high.mov http://files.ea.com/downloads/eagames/cc/tiberium/KW_Titan_Render_high.mov

No rush rooms exist in other RTS titles, among very low-skilled players exclusively. THANK YOU!!!

Ditto, though the F2P announcement from August 2012 was the trigger for my anticipation that the game would either get canned or would die about a month after release.

No, you entirely missed the bit where that excuse was pre-written by corporate heads at EA. A Victory Games employee clearly stated it was cancelled due to corporate politics, and that makes perfect sense. Victory Games was essentially forced to make compromises, like initially gutting the singleplayer campaigns to stay afloat, so they were in a sandwich between EA rushing them and the fans shaking their heads on policies that were being forced. There was more things happening behind the scenes than the public was made aware of and will likely never be aware of.

Seems like it's the only game you ever played (newsflash - it was made 3 years after C&C2013 was cancelled). Go educate yourself under which circumstances the project was being developed. http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Command_&_Conquer_(2013)

Over a month ago, the team at GVMERS, who had previously covered the fate of the cancelled FPS Tiberium, created a video on the entire C&C franchise. What you are looking at above is the corrected, definitive version - certain facts about things that happened behind the scenes in Westwood Studios, EA Pacific, EA Los Angeles and Victory Games have been proofread, and each game is now presented in higher detail, in order to better describe what made Command & Conquer what it is, in both its good and bad times. The video is now 10 minutes longer in total, so be sure to check it out!

Hot Hot Heat - Let Me In [2007] One of my recent accidental discoveries, this song was featured in the in-game radio station GenX/Ultor FM in Saints Row 2. I don't lightly say this to music recorded in the past decade/decade and a half, but to me it sounds right and perhaps under-represented.

Blur's songs didn't get a lot of airplay after their peak, short of "Song 2". VH1 Europe, however, featured "Country House" in their jingles a few years back...

Humble Bundle has Rising Storm: GOTY Edition for free for 20 more hours. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/rising-storm-game-of-the-year-edition

Now that Zocom is done confusing my thread for Now Playing - Music that solely he resides in nowadays... The xx - Crystalised [2009]

Disable Origin In-Game for all TUC games that you've installed and apply Bibber's fixed launchers.

Asset flipping assholes are joined by Wargaming.net of World of Tanks fame in whiny DMCA takedowns on videos critical of them. Let's all point and laugh at the village idiot in a corporate suit. Also, if you don't know about him yet, SidAlpha is a small but quality-driven YouTuber who covers both AAA and indie devs when they're acting up, and unlike most people who just make clickbaitey content, he tries to think his statements through. He recently caught the eye of TotalBiscuit and Jim Sterling themselves. Check him out.

W3D Hub has released version 3.1.0.0 of Red Alert: A Path Beyond. This is the first major version since the first Delta release, with quite a lot of changes. The most important ones are the availability of Soviet Airfields and Yaks, Thieves being able to steal 33% of ore from ore silos on any map, Radar Domes having a special terminal for airlifting basic vehicles when the War Factory goes down, Redeye/Strela weapons no longer having homing characteristics, Grenadiers no longer having an "artillery form", and lots of balance changes, tweaks and aesthetic improvements. Check out the full changelog here and if you haven't done so already, get the W3D Hub Launcher from here.

Starpoint Gemini 2 is free on Steam these two days: http://store.steampowered.com/app/236150/Starpoint_Gemini_2/

I hope you realize I was just messing with ya? Anyway, I've had it since the last time GOG gave it away but was never arsed to try it out. Guess I might as well.

Blur - Country House [1995] What playlist would be complete without these guys? Blur was one of the key bands in UK music during the 90s, along with Oasis. "Country House" was their first of two number-one hits on the UK charts.

You either die a Nmenth, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Zocom This is done as promo for a Mount & Blade: Warband (!) tournament in Bucharest: https://www.gog.com/news/mount_blade_giveaway_series_sale_vote_for_best_skills

Mount & Blade is free for the next 48 (well, 44) hours on GOG.com: https://www.gog.com/game/mount_blade

Sadly, no

Angry Joe's problem is more with big corporations (Disney/Lucasfilm, Nintendo etc.) using content ID claims that demonetize his videos (something Jim Sterling found a witty way to circumvent). What happened here was a full-on DMCA claim, as in the three-strikes-and-you're-out kind. Speaking of Jim Sterling, he made a short video on the subject and will make a full Jimquisition episode (which will reach a lot more viewers than SidAlpha can at the moment), this will be quite a sight to watch. Gratuitous vampirical tendencies towards gaming companies aside, it's true, this is becoming a bigger and bigger problem. What I find concerning is that Wargaming.net isn't a bunch of retards like the Romine brothers of Digital Homicide (in)fame, but a company that's been there for years and that's behind some very popular games. Who knows which major company will be the next to try and silence someone who's critical of their apparently shady business...

Absolutely epic stuff right there. This is new to me, what does that contain? LE stands for...?

In this week's Throwback Thursday feature, we remember GDI's first Tiberium-resistant infantry unit (which somehow needed about 50 years to appear), the Zone Troopers from C&C 3: Tiberium Wars. Outfitted with heavily armoured suits, Zone Troopers could cross even the most hostile terrain, and used in-built jet packs to reach barely accessible areas. They could be upgraded with Power Packs, which increased their total health and enabled self-healing, and Scanner Packs, which increased their sight range and gave them the ability to detect stealthed units. In Kane's Wrath, they turned out to be particularly useful when garrisoned in Hammerheads, giving birth to the multiplayer favourite "Zonehead". Along with the GDI commando, Zone Troopers were prominently featured in promotional artwork for the game, albeit in their earlier design which had their heads exposed. Remember, you can click on the preview to see a larger and more detailed image. Don't forget to check out the Throwback Thursdays archives if you've missed a week. Check back again next Thursday for another Throwback. Send in your ideas for future instalments. We also encourage you to share this on social media using the hash tags #ThrowbackThursday, #CnCTBT and #CNCNZTBT.