work has activated on the Kane's Wrath patch and I am pressing to get the primary hot fixes in (desyncs, past C&C 3 exploits, balance issues, etc) so please do understand we are treating all the most urgent issues with the highest priority.

If I am being honest, I still cannot provide you an exact release date, but our team is working hard to make this happen in as quick a time frame as possible with all relevant testing needed etc. I plan to hold the ladder season until this first patch is out, i'm hopeful for the late part of this month. In the meantime, I will do my best to keep things entertaining here =)

I actually played online today, had 3 clean games, no desyncs, they were epic, so I know these issues are not always occurring, but I fully agree they are frequent.

And finally, next week I should have a lock on the final balance changes we are looking to implement. We'll be doing some work this weekend and perking around the forums again just to make sure, but I hope to show that list to you next week. This time, i'm only going to do it when 100% confident.

Thank you to those of you who understand, and to those who don't or won't choose to, I entirely understand and respect that as well.

You are the customer, and you are right. I can sincerely say, the current happening with Kane's Wrath is not an indication of the future. It's 100% an unfortunate circumstance that we are working hard to remedy and right.

I’m sure you are aware, the past couple of days have seen some unfortunate server issues with Gamespy and today no less, servers are down once again for all of our C&C and BFME games.

We are of course well aware of this technical issue and are keeping up to date with Gamespy on a resolve.

Servers issues are impacting all Gamespy games currently.

GameSpy has been working around the clock to add capacity to their online servers backend to meet an increase in demand for their partner titles, so this is affecting not just C&C and BFME, but also Battlefield, and a myriad of other titles.

I’ll keep you guys posted, also keep your eyes posted on this thread on our forums for further updates.

http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread....14072&#3514072

Service should be back to normal today, and increasingly better throughout the rest of the week.

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• Louis Castle, creator of the Sacred Green Crystal, joins us to reminisce about Red Alert 2!

Before designing an individual mission, we understand the structure of our campaign as a whole, from both a gameplay and narrative standpoint. However, once we’ve got to grips with our story and mission sequencing, we can begin to design individual levels.

• Joe Kucan wins "Longest Running Actor" for his role as the infamous Kane.
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