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It's happening. And not only for StarCraft =)

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/careers/posting.html?id...

Also for Command & Conquer: http://openra.net (currently C&C (Tiberian Dawn), C&C: Red Alert, and Dune 2000 with Tiberian Sun on the way).

Wow. That is good news. Those games are some of the ones I've had the most fun on.

And Red Alert 2: YR fans might find Ares [1] interesting: it's an engine-enhancement that fixes a ton of funky bugs [2] and enables loads of new functionality, and popular mods like Mental Omega and D-Day take advantage of that functionality in interesting ways.

(I used to be the lead developer of Ares for several years, the amount of reverse-engineering and C++ voodoo involved was awesome.)

1: http://ares.strategy-x.com/

2: https://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/bugfixes/type1/i...

I am a fan of C&C Renegade (the concept of 3D shooter and RTS gameplay is so awesome) and C&C Generals. Would love to see some community projects around them as well. Something like 0 A.D. for C&C Renegade and Generals (mind you both featured the same game engine)

Checkout Renegade X http://www.renegade-x.com/. Amazing remake of the original C&C Renegade. I still play every now and then (ShotgunJH)

I'm aware of the postings, but in I think an interview (maybe at Blizzcon?), Blizzard said that they weren't getting around to actually updating them anytime soon.

No mention of Warcraft 2 in those job postings? That's disappointing.

No, but there is someone who's basically made a 'modern' version of War2 in the browser: http://www.littlewargame.com/

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