Command & Conquer: The First Decade

Command & Conquer (often abbreviated as C&C or CNC) is a series of computer real-time strategy games and a single first-person shooter game initially developed by Westwood Studios (1985 – 2003). The first installment of the series was released world-wide on August 31, 1995 and was simply named Command & Conquer, although fans often refer to it as Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn or just Tiberian Dawn to avoid confusion between that game and the series as a whole. The series is largely marketed for North American, European and Australasian audiences, with many of the games also translated into other languages including German, French, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. The series is primarily for IBM PC compatible computers, although some of the games have been ported to various video game consoles, and the Apple Macintosh. In 2003, American game marketer and developer Electronic Arts purchased and closed Westwood Studios, absorbing it into EA Los Angeles which has become the series' current development center. The series is ongoing, but while some of the original Westwood C&C team remain at EA Los Angeles, most left to form the new game company Petroglyph. As of 2006, seven games with various expansion packs have been released.