Joe Kucan returns as Kane in the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.
Joe Kucan returns as Kane in the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.
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Command & Conquer Remastered Collection: Joe Kucan returns as Kane

For Joe Kucan, celebrity has returned 25 years after he played an iconic role as the villain Kane in the video game Command & Conquer. A new generation will now see Kucan in the nostalgic 25th anniversary release of the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection, which debuts this week.

Kucan’s bald head, thick goatee, and menacing voice made him the video game bad guy. So much so that actor Robin Williams once asked him for an autograph, as reported in my interview with Kucan for the Wall Street Journal more than 20 years ago.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.