Is BioWare’s New Game a Command & Conquer Title?

Joystiq, Kotaku, and the sleuths from Superannuation and the NeoGAF forums have all been piecing together what little we know about the title BioWare will be announcing at the VGAs next month, and, while the information isn’t based on any conclusive evidence, there are a few indications that it could be a new title set in the Command & Conquer universe. The biggest piece of the puzzle seems to be the fact that Victory Games was listed as a BioWare studio on a since-edited LinkedIn profile, and the Jon Van Caneghem-led (yes, the original Might and Magic creator) studio is in charge of the C&C franchise:

Victory Games, you might recall, is a new “strategy studio” announced by EA last February, as an offshoot of its EA Los Angeles location. Like Danger Close and Visceral Games, Victory is more of a “rebranding” than an entirely new studio; Victory was set up as the EALA shop handling all things Command & Conquer, much like Danger Close was established to handle all things Medal of Honor.

Now, onto the new “BioWare” game being revealed on December 10 at the Spike Video Game Awards. With the latest teaser promising “a new direction, a new game, from a new BioWare studio,” that sounds vague enough to contain a new Command & Conquer installment. New direction? That sounds like Victory’s mandate for the franchise. New game? Well, yeah. A new BioWare studio? We’re not sure what makes Victory a BioWare studio (per the above LinkedIn resume) instead of an EA Games studio, but there you have it.

With so many strategy titles incorporating RPG elements, it really wouldn’t be too surprising if it were a Command & Conquer-based strategy/RPG.