Settling down for a quiet evening of Command and Conquer back in the day was brilliant – well, it still is brilliant, in truth – but playing your friends or other random players online was where the RTS game really shone. It paved the way for competitive strategy games, and now you can (briefly) get a taste of that magic all over again with the new multiplayer demo for Tempest Rising, the upcoming strategy game that is as close to a new C&C game as you’re going to get.

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