Renegade hits the road

Westwood Studios has announced that it will take Command & Conquer Renegade, its upcoming action game, on a nationwide tour starting this month. The five-city tour will give fans across the country a chance to play the game prior to its retail release on February 26.

The tour is sponsored by Alienware, a manufacturer of computer gaming machines; Nvidia, the graphics processing technology company; Discreet, a developer of digital content creation and management tools; and iGames, an organization of independent and franchised gaming centers. The tour will stop at five gaming centers across the country, and it will let players try out Renegade's single- and multiplayer modes. Players will also be able to enter a random drawing to win a variety of prizes, including a fully loaded PC.

The Command & Conquer Renegade tour will stop in the following cities:

January 26, 2002 -- Los Angeles, California
ICELAN
3580 Temple Ave., Suite I, Pomona, CA 91768
909-594-3800

February 2 -- Madison, Wisconsin
Ping Time
506 State Street, Madison, WI 53703
608-663-4664

February 9 -- Indianapolis, Indiana
Net Heads
1011 East Westfield Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46220
317-257-6635

February 16 - Denver, Colorado
CyberLAN Gaming
1005 W. 120th Ave., Suite 250, Westminster, CO 80234
303-920-2985

February 26 - San Francisco, California
Rivalution Network Center
1172 N. Capitol Ave, San Jose, CA 95132
408.821.9124

Renegade is a 3D action game set in the universe of Westwood's popular Command & Conquer real-time strategy games. For more information about Command & Conquer Renegade, take a look at our previous coverage of the game.