After the release of Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, much of the Command & Conquer team, within EA Los Angeles, was laid off in 2010 causing the future of the series to be cast in doubt. In October 2010, a senior vice-president from Electronic Arts had told the media that the Command & Conquer series would live on as a brand from Dead Space developers, Visceral Games, with a title from the series to be released by that developer being "far-off" and whether or not he was referring to this game is not clear.

The first official announcement of a new Command & Conquer game in development, came in February 2011 when Electronic Arts announced the formation of a new studio known as Victory Games. In the studios' first Q&A session with the official Command & Conquer blog, openly announced that they were developing a new title in the Command & Conquer series with the studios' general focus being on the future of the series. The new studio consisted of members from the previous EA Los Angeles development team as well as some new staff members.

CPU: 2 GHz modern dual core Intel or AMD CPU
RAM: 2GB of system memory
Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible card with 256 MB RAM or more. Nvidia 8-series or AMD Radeon 3000 series graphics cards.
Operating system: Windows Vista with Direct X 10 or 11
DirectX compatible sound card
12 GB of hard drive space