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That's right folks! Red Alert: A Path Beyond, Tiberian Sun: Reborn and Red Alert 2: Apocalypse Rising have all made it to IndieDB's top 100 for released and unreleased categories respectively! You also can still vote for us to be narrowed down even further and get a shot at winning some awards by heading here and voting for us! http://www.indiedb.com/groups/2017-indie-of-the-year-awards/top100 We've had a bit of bad luck with the awards in recent years, but thanks to all your dedication as W3D fans, we've shown the world that once again we can brush shoulders with the best of them. Every year the competition gets stiffer, but the fact that we made it just goes to show and there's still life in the old dog yet. Finally, a big congratulations goes out to other C&C projects that made it into the ModDB top 100 this year! Feel free to head on over and support our friends making C&C mods (especially Tiberian Sun: Rising) at the following link! http://www.moddb.com/groups/2017-mod-of-the-year-awards/top100 Cheers everyone! [thumb]custom_thumb_ioty2017.png[/thumb] [blurb]We've made it to the IndieDB top 100 with Red Alert: A Path Beyond, Tiberian Sun: Reborn and Red Alert 2: Apocalypse Rising! Thanks to everyone who voted for us![/blurb]

We were recently approached for an interview by our friends over at the German fansite, C&C Saga. Special thanks to AnNo1935 of C&C Saga for conducting the interview and to ChopBam of our own staff for being our representative. Be sure to visit their website @ http://www.cncsaga.de/ Interview available in German and English! Follow the link here to read the interview or click the image below. [blurb]We were recently approached for an interview by our friends over at the German fansite, C&C Saga. Visit their website and read all about it! Interview available in German and English![/blurb]

[blurb]Hot on the heels of version 0.7.5, version 0.8 of the launcher brings you the first functioning version of the chat lobby! This has been a long requested feature and I hope everyone finds it useful.[/blurb] Hot on the heels of version 0.7.5, version 0.8 of the launcher brings you the first functioning version of the chat lobby! This has been a long requested feature and I hope everyone finds it useful. Additional changes include; Tweak how URLs are launched to try and fix issue with Chrome crashing (#50) Login dialog now focuses the nickname field when opened (#49) Please report any issues on the Launcher Issues Tracker or here in the forums

[blurb]The issue tracker for the launcher is now available to the public. This allows you to report bugs, suggest new features or improvements or just have a look at what's on our roadmap for the launcher. You can also vote for issues to let us know which features you want the most![/blurb] The issue tracker for the launcher is now available to the public. This allows you to report bugs, suggest new features or improvements or just have a look at what's on our roadmap for the launcher. You can also vote for issues to let us know which features you want the most! You can access the issues list at https://gitlab.com/w3dhub/w3dhub-launcher-net/issues Note that you will need a gitlab account to report issues, but you can also login with Google Auth, Twitter Auth and GitHub accounts so most users won't even need to create a completely new (unless you want to). If you report a new issue you can sign up for email notifications when we reply to your issue and once we've fixed it. You can also subscribe to existing issues by clicking the "Subscribe" button in Notifications section of the toolbar on the right (when you are signed in)

An update is available to the W3D Hub launcher which improves the login process and integrates with the live forum environment correctly. Thanks to @moonsense715 for his efforts in reverse engineering the missing parts from the original IPB v3 integration. Note that, as has always been the case, unless you are a staff member or tester there is no benefit to logging in at present.

[blurb]A few forum updates are in the works, read about them here![/blurb] [thumb]thumb_w3d.1.png[/thumb]Hi everyone! Just a few small community updates really. You may have noticed that the forum thread icons have changed slightly. Today I went through and gave them some much needed love which should hopefully make navigating the forum a lot easier on the eyes and provide a much more consistent visual experience! A couple of other things that I want to mention. Since we've moved across to IPB's 4.0 version of the forum software, we have only managed to get the Reborn skin back up and working. However, work has begun on bringing back the classic APB skin, so watch out for that one in the future! Finally, @moonsense715 and I have been working hard to bring the bug tracker back online! This will be fully integrated into the forum, so there won't be any external links for you to bookmark! Special thanks goes out to everyone who has donated to us! We really aren't able to bring big community improvements such as the download manager, bug tracker and other add-ons without you guys, so please know that you are helping shape and improve this community in an incredible way. We've got more improvements in the pipeline that we'll be sharing with you in the future, but for this is a taste of what to expect in the next few weeks. As ever if you guys have any feedback, or want to see us add something to the community that you think would benefit it, please feel free to let us know! Leave a thread in the W3D Hub Discussion forum or pm one of the admins!

[blurb]As July draws near a close, check out what's been happening here![/blurb] As July draws near a close, check out what's been happening here! Staff Updates Nodlied Nodlied has been shifted up a notch from Staff to Staff Moderator. Our Testing Director now wields a shiny obelisk with which to ban rowdy testers with! NodGuy With full recommendations from our moderation team, NodGuy has been brought aboard as our newest half-moderator for the APB server. He's a regular player, level-headed, and knows the rules. Jeod Furthermore in the Server Moderator usergroup, Jeod has been promoted from half-moderator to full moderator. He has proven himself trustworthy in his moderation duties and as such been granted full permissions in IRC and in-game. Congratulations you guys! Project News The team behind Expansive Civilian Warfare (or ECW) has just opened their sub-forum to release Dev updates in. Read up on their announcement here if you missed it! A Reborn update was also posted today, which you can read here. Closing That about wraps up this small community update. Until next time!

[blurb]Red Alert: A Path Beyond featured on the Mod DB front page![/blurb] Red Alert: A Path Beyond featured on the Mod DB front page! Edit: Tiberian Sun: Reborn also featured!

[blurb]Hey, how about a little community update! Couple happenings here and there within our community and others, so let's get up to speed.[/blurb] Hey, how about a little community update! Couple happenings here and there within our community and others, so let's get up to speed. Long Live CNCNZ! If you missed the commotion from this past week, founder of CNCNZ.com Sonic stepped down and the website was on the verge of going offline. Fortunately, returning administrator Zee Hypnotist has taken it upon himself to keep the site running and continue the legacy. Alongside admins Plokite_Wolf and Nmenth, CNCNZ will prevail! Give those guys a visit sometime! They have also recently upgraded their Technical Support & Help Guides section, otherwise known as the Service Depot, to assist fans in installing all C&C games under modern operating systems! Link provided by clicking on the image. "It's time to play the game(s), commanders, and now you have the means of doing so!" - Plokite_Wolf New Hires Back to our community, we have some new hires to our staff team. They're likely familiar faces to you, or perhaps completely new. Whichever the case, please welcome our new team members! Ice Lifetime RA-lism advocate and long-time member of the community, Ice has been brought on to the team. Collaborating closely with Wallywood, Ice will be helping out with Tiberian Sun: Reborn 2.0 and already has a couple of new models to show off! Expect to see these in a TSR update soon! Testament Testament has been a long-time member of the Expansive Civilian Warfare mod, going way back to when the project had the name Roleplay 2 and even before the now Lead Producer Jerad joined. A dedicated player and fan, he not only has done numerous bug testing over the years but has played the role of ECW planner and testing director on occasions. Now an official member of our staff, Testament will be in charge of ECW Public Relations. Be on the lookout for announcements and previews of Expansive Civilian Warfare as we look to release it! SilverShark Better known ingame as Totd, SilverShark has been brought aboard our staff. We just really like his APB Madness videos. Discord Little milestone here. Since launching our Discord server, we have hit over 100+ members! In interesting happenings there, CMDBob has been revealing his Civilian Tech Centre progress in the #a-path-beyond channel as well as collaborating with Pushwall on some scripts work. Our official testing communications has also moved over here, so for you potential tester applicants Discord is a must! Even if you are not a modeler, a scripts junkie, or interested in become a tester, come join the discussion anyway! We have folks watching the progression of our projects from there, some even showing off their own and looking for feedback. You can even just talk about your day, maybe share a meme or two in our #general-chat, and find some friends to play other games together with. Closing This wraps up this little update! Be on the lookout for some project news going out soon!

[blurb]Version 0.7.3 of the W3D launcher is now live. [/blurb]Version 0.7.3 of the W3D launcher is now live. This version fixes some issues with the server list when logging in and out multiple times and includes additional diagnostics for cases where non-english versions of Windows are having problems downloading packages. If you are running a non-english version of Windows, please report the errors.log contents if you have an installation failure with this version - it will include additional information about exactly which package name it's having problems with.

Kotaku UK have featured W3D Hub in a fairly lengthy article that sheds a nice light on what Command & Conquer-related projects we are working on. A while back I met a freelance journalist who was really interested in covering the work that we do here. Over the course of a few months, I gave them some info about the community and the result was this article! A link to the article can be found right here: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/05/02/the-renegades-remaking-command-conquer-as-firstperson-shooters Although it's great to get acknowledged by a major gaming publication, there are unfortunately a few inaccuracies that are mentioned in the article. I've listed the facts below to set the record straight: Renegade was a 2002 game, not a 2005 game @OWA is currently moonlighting as a Seconded Game Designer at creative Assembly, so no longer a Tester (for now) Renegade X was in development as far back as 2007, so the devs didn't all leave to make Reborn in 2011 as the article suggests @OWA didn't have much of a hand in the handing over of Reborn at all. That task was masterminded by @Wallywood, who made sure that the game was in good hands before moving it back over to what was then Bluehell Productions It's Nod, not NOD (old joke is old) MCT terminals, i.e. Master Control Terminal Terminals Reborn doesn't feature Thieves The section about 2009 graphics upgrades is uninformed. Here's the scoop straight from @saberhawk: "We slowly took over the rendering engine and rebuilt most of it a few times; the original game was D3D8 (DirectX 8), all the latest things are D3D11 (DirectX 11)" Even with these inacurracies, it's really great to see this level of attention from a major game news site (even if it's only from the UK branch of Kotaku) and get our message out there that C&C isn't quite dead yet. This shows that even though we're creating games on an older engine, it still continues to spark interest, which I think is amazing. I'm really proud of what we achieve every day here and I think we should all enjoy being in the limelight as one of the few teams still standing that is continuing to carry the banner for the Command & Conquer franchise and fans everywhere! With improvements and new site features on the way, W3D Hub is going to be a community that will be around for years to come! Stay tuned for more good stuff right here! [blurb]Kotaku UK have covered W3D Hub in an exciting news article, featuring our very own OWA![/blurb] [thumb]thumb_tsr.j.png[/thumb]

[blurb]Announcing another Pick-Up Game for this weekend![/blurb] Announcing another Pick-Up Game for this weekend! JOIN TEAMSPEAK @ ts.w3dhub.com TO PLAY on Saturday (May 6th) at 7:00 PM GMT (EU) / 2:00 PM CST (US) Come on by and join the fun! Time has been set an hour earlier than the previous PUG. Full details pertaining to PUG rules and how to join can be found here. See you on the battlefield!

[thumb]thumb_w3d.0.png[/thumb] [blurb]Version 0.7.2 of the W3D launcher is now live.[/blurb]Version 0.7.2 of the W3D launcher is now live. This version adds under the hood improvements to the server listings to make them more reliable.

[blurb]Forum Mafia news! Our community has received an invite to participate in the Mafia World Championship![/blurb] [thumb]custom_thumb_thekgbspy.png[/thumb] Interesting news on the Mafia front. Our community has received an invite to partake in the Mafia World Championship held annually over at Mafia Universe. Our chosen representative will be Voe, with Category5 as alternate. Communities from all over participate in these games, and this is our opportunity to come out on top! Join me in cheering on Voe! May the odds be ever in his favour! Full thread in our Off-Topic section :: https://secure.w3dhub.com/forum/topic/416196-invitation-to-mafia-championship/

[blurb]C&C Renegade turns 15 today! Come join us by celebrating the game that started it all, as we recall past battles and look back at the game's history.[/blurb] [thumb]custom_thumb_ren.png[/thumb] It's been 15 years since C&C Renegade was first released to the public! No matter what the critics say, this game is an incredible and unique experience that has only been matched by the mods that it has spawned. Without Renegade, this community wouldn't be where it stands today because the hours spent tinkering with modding projects has shaped the way that this community has grown over the years and brought us all together to make awesome things! Renegade is a game with an engine that still manages to keep surprising us and it's truly a fun engine to mod for. Hopefully we'll still be here in another 15 years time at W3D Hub to celebrate Renegade's 30th birthday. Every day the community for the original game gets smaller, but we hope to keep it's spirit alive for as long as we can. Here's to you old friend.

Hi guys! Even though it's already halfway through February, here's a new avatar theme. Well not so much a theme as an invitation to change your avatar to anything! This month is Everyone's February, so feel free to express yourself by changing your avatar to whatever you like! Feel free to express yourself and have some fun! By the way, Ninjas beat Pirates last month with 9 votes to 5. I guess the pirates didn't have a (wooden) leg to stand on!

Hi everyone! Just a quick post to tell you that our forum chat is now online! You should all be able to see a new tab on the forum that will take you to a kiwi IRC login page. All you need to do is set a username and click connect! It will then take you to W3D Hub's IRC channel (as well as Rencorner's!). We already make use of IRC a lot of monitor our game servers via bots, but now it also provides us with an awesome place to hang out! So feel free to join in and hang out!

Hi everyone! We're already a month into 2017 and it feels like this year is flying by already! I just want to take this opportunity to let you know know some of the stuff that we have in the pipeline for the coming months! We've just upgraded our forum to IPB 4.0, which brings with it a whole new realm of possibilities that we will most definitely explore! Strike and the gang have been working hard to make this forum upgrade a reality for everyone to enjoy and now that we're finally here we can start focusing on the future a bit more. We're proud of the work that we do here in this community, but now we have even larger ambitions that we want to carry out in order to make this place bigger and better than it has ever been before. Here's just a few features that you can expect to see over the coming months: Tiberian Sun: Reborn: We are currently fully committed to completely re-balancing and overhauling Tiberian Sun: Reborn in order to make it a much more enjoyable game to play. Work is currently underway and we'll try and release some more information when we have more things to show! Wallywood is at the helm of the project once again, with myself moonsense715 and TeamWolf all committed to helping push the release out. The 10th anniversary of December 31st 2006 may have passed, but rest assured, Reborn will see a lot of love this year. Red Alert 2: Apocalypse Rising: Development on AR is simmering along nicely, although a few of us have been redirected onto Reborn for the time being. Rest assured though, once Reborn has been overhauled, we'll be training our eyes back onto AR once again, with some great new features that will change the way you play C&C mode forever! Expansive Civilian Warfare: We're aiming to publish ECW to the launcher publically with the view distance executable fix as soon as we can, although there are a few complications that we need to overcome first pertaining to that system. We're putting in the work that should hopefully allow us to install, run and update this great project from the launcher fully, so watch out for it! Red Alert: A Path Beyond: APB will continue receiving updates as per usual. Not much to report on here, but the next point should provide more info on what other APB-related things we'll be doing to in infrastructure in order to keep it running smoothly. As always, big kudos to pushwall for keeping the engine running on this fantastic project. Players & Stats: we have a dedicated team working on upgrading the stats system for APB and porting it over to Reborn, which should help boost player counts, but we'll also need your help to spread the word and tell the internet about the awesome games that we make here! At some point in the next few months, I'd personally like to put together a media pack with screenshots, posters, banners and other things so that we can tell PC gamers about the fantastic work that we do here. I feel that APB and Reborn aren't being played as much as they could due to a lack of awareness, so this year we'll be looking to tackle that problem and bring more players into the fold. Download Manager: We'll be plugging in IP.Downloads to handle community mods, custom skins and other files, just as it was back when we were at BHP. Hopefully we can rely on you guys to make some great content for the entire community to enjoy across all of our projects! Discord Server: FRAYDO has been working hard to set up a community Discord server. For those of you who don't know about Discord, it's a text and voice chat application that can be used via a client or web browser. This won't replace our current TeamSpeak server, but will sit nicely alongside it, in order to provide an accessible place for the community to gather. We understand that not everybody is comfortable with voice chat as well as installing TeamSpeak, so this is our solution to those of you who want to chat and play games together. Integrated Chat: We want to work on integrating a chat box into the forum. We haven't decided whether to directly plug in IRC or our upcoming Discord server. We've still got some details to work out on that end. Bug Tracker: The bug tracker is noticeably absent from the new forum, but it will be back at some point. Advanced Tags & Prefixes: The old thread tagging system from the previous version of the forum is also missing, but we have plans to return it soon! These are just some of the great game updates and community upgrades that you can expect to see this year. We also have a couple of extra things that we're keeping close to our chests as well. We've got to have a couple of secrets right! I also want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank akhero47, as without the donations that he made to the community, these upgrades would probably still be on hold. So a big thanks to him for all of his help! As ever, if you guys feel like contributing to our community improvement projects, feel free to drop us a PM. We'll have a proper donate button up soon that will allow this system to be a lot more seamless and we will make sure to let you know what your donations go towards if you contribute. We're very fortunate that we have people like Strike who are willing to keep the lights on for us, but as they say, every little bit helps! As a final present, I want to let you all know that the Reborn forum theme has now been completed and is available for you guy to use! I put in some hours over the weekend to get this up and running as soon as possible, since I know you guys love dark forum themes! I'll be prioritizing the APB theme next! You can access the theme by clicking "Theme" at the bottom of the page. I have also made it the default board theme for now as well. Thanks for reading guys and I hope you're all as psyched for 2017 as we are! - OWA & the W3D Hub Staff

You may notice our forums have a slightly different look to them. Through the efforts of Strike, danpaul88, and the IPB Support Team, our forums have been upgraded! This upgrade is just the beginning, as there are more site improvements to follow. In the meantime, familiarize yourself with the new layout and inform the team of any concerns.

Happy New Year! And this month's theme is an oldie but a goodie: Pirates vs. Ninjas! Happy New Year! I hope everyone of you made it well into 2017. For all of us, the new year is a fresh start. It's a breath of relief from the fiasco that was 2016. Numerous celebrity deaths, a failed coup in Turkey, Brexit, one controversial presidential race in the United States, and North Korea has resumed missile and nuclear tests. So yeah. 2016 was a year of upsets for many, political and emotional. In lighter news! The new year is a clean slate. We've made our new years resolution's and we're ready to face whatever challenges may arise. Exciting opportunities and new discoveries are sure to come your way! Even more, we have lots to look forward to in 2017 - movies especially! From Star Wars Episode VIII to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, to Wonder Woman and Justice League, there's a movie for everyone! In tech, we can look forward to possible advancements in VR, the new Nintendo Switch, and whatever Apple comes up with. Moving on to our Monthly Avatar Theme, let's start with an oldie but a goodie. It's an age-old debate that incites communities small and large: Pirates vs. Ninjas! Who would win in a fight? Which are cooler? Which side are you on? As an added bonus, a poll will be held. Votes will be counted at the end to determine the winner. And remember: In any debate, the other side is wrong. Discuss.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from us to you! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from us here! Enjoy time with your family and friends, take in all the Christmas joy and cheer, and have a great day today!

Dear friends, it's that time of the year again! Christmas time is here! Time for joy and time for cheer! ♫ Dear friends, it's that time of the year again! Christmas time is here! Time for joy and time for cheer! ♫ You know what to do! And that's leaving some gifts wrapped up under my Christmas tree! Oh, and Christmas and Happy Holidays avatars!

My fellow constituents. Election day draws near for the United States of America. In light of the presidential race, this month's theme shall be politics. Political leaders, political parties, or even images related to politics. My fellow constituents. Election day draws near for the United States of America. In light of the presidential race, this month's theme shall be politics. Political leaders, political parties, or even images related to politics. \ Please keep it civil in choosing your avatar.

Its October, and you know what that means! Thats right, another Spooooky forum theme change! Greetings and salutations, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, genders, sexualities, preferences, colors, and religious beliefs or lack thereof. KayWhy here, bringing you this month's theme! Well, since it's October, this month's theme is Halloween! Pumpkins, costumes, monsters, spooky scary skeletons! Anything celebrating the most frightening night of the year is a go! So go out there and GET SPOOPY!!!

This month's avatar theme - cartoons! Old and new cartoons alike. No anime. It's that time again! New month, new avatar theme! For the month of September the theme is cartoons! Old and new cartoons alike! Classic ones, childhood favorites, ones you still watch today! As much as it pains me personally, anime and manga are excluded. I choose Dipper Pines from Disney's Gravity Falls. Your turn!