Welcome to X69.org
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Meldrik@lemmy.wtf to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3!

peertube.wtf

external-link
message-square
11
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
67
external-link

BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3!

peertube.wtf

Meldrik@lemmy.wtf to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago
message-square
11
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
You read that right. In a staggering move, Electronic Arts (yes, that Electronic Arts) has released the full source code for C&C Tiberium Dawn, C&C Red Alert, C&C Renegate, and C&C ...
  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    1 year ago

    I think they just figured out they can offload the modernization of old games to the community. People will still have to buy the game to get the assets needed to play it legally.

    • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      ·
      1 year ago

      Surely though if it is fully GPL, then new assets can be created by the community and the originals are no longer required?

    • slst@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      Has already been the case for years with OpenRA

Gaming@beehaw.org

gaming@beehaw.org

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it’s gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming’s sister community Tabletop Gaming.


This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 174 users / day
  • 645 users / week
  • 1.01K users / month
  • 4K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 34.2K subscribers
  • 2.92K Posts
  • 38.6K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.org
  • Whom@beehaw.org
  • gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
  • The_Hunted_One@beehaw.org
  • Chloyster [she/her]@beehaw.org
  • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
  • BE: 0.19.13
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org