Like some sort of evil Victorian capitalist trying to make up for a lifetime of exploitation, EA seems to have unexpectedly lowered the price of a really great RTS game right after the much talked about firing, oh, 5% of their employees. Did that help a little?

PCGamesN has discovered (and to be clear, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the layoffs, just bad talk) that EA has silently revised the prices of Command and Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 to essentially zero. Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars and Kane's Wrath for $2 (£1.89) each, as well as the full-length Red Alert 3. Meanwhile, "Red Alert 3 - Uprising" is only $1.49 (£1.49).

These price changes, according to SteamDB data, appear to have been initiated yesterday, March 4, and represent a significant price cut. Both Tiberium games were $15 (£15) before the change, while Red Alert was $20 (£18) each. But the plot gets more complicated: several PC Gamer editors have looked at the EA app, and it appears that the price has not changed. For the most part, EA apps are priced the same as they were on Steam before this price cut, but only "Red Alert 3" is inexplicably priced at $27. We could not find "Tiberium Wars" either.

So either the price change has not yet been reflected in the EA app, or the Steam change is some kind of mistake. I'm betting on the former, since "honestly" I imagine that the number of people who bother to buy these very old games on EA's own platform is barely existent.

I contacted EA to see if the price change was intentional and permanent.

If you don't have them, you should definitely get these games at the new price point; whatever you think of EA's management of the "Command & Conquer" games ("Tiberium Twilight" was so bad that it was eventually delisted ), "Tiberium Wars," "Kane's Wrath," and "RA3" were all great. Joe Kukan's cry of "By my army!" will live in my head rent-free for the rest of my life.