You’d be forgiven for missing it, but ex-Westwood Studios developers quietly announced a spiritual successor to Command & Conquer: Renegade this month.
Petroglyph Games is the Los Angeles-based studio founded by the last group of ex-Westwood employees who left when EA shut what remained of the Command & Conquer developer down in 2003.
Petroglyph has released a number of real-time strategy games over the years, including Star Wars: Empire at War, Rise of Immortals, Grey Goo and, most recently, Conan Unconquered.
Right now, Petroglyph is working on a high-profile remaster of the original Command & Conquer games for EA. But alongside that it’s working on another game that also riffs on nostalgia for Command & Conquer.
On 13th November, Petroglyph released a teaser trailer and Steam page for a game called Earthbreakers. It’s a first-person shooter / RTS hybrid that revolves around a war over a purple-coloured resource called Vilothyte. There are tanks, soldiers and a vehicle dedicated to gathering Vilothyte called a harvester.