Tripwire Interactive announces Rising Storm, an expansion for Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad to be released next year. The Rising Storm Website is online, and this makes the distinction that this is actually a cross between a full expansion and a community created mod, calling this "a first-of-its-kind collaboration between a mod team and a professional game development studio." They are also recruiting for the project, saying that these are not full-time salaried positions, but that financial compensation is involved. Here's word on the project, which takes the game's World War II combat to the Pacific:

Rising Storm will cover the famous island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945 as the US Army and Marine Corps fight it out with the Imperial Japanese army and Special Naval Landing Forces. Featuring some of the most brutal fighting in the Pacific theater, players will be able to experience beach assaults, jungle fighting, close quarters cave fighting and more across Corregidor, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and many other historic locations. The player will be able to take the part of either side – American or Japanese –playing through the Campaign Mode alone or with friends, or battle it out online in full player versus player multi-player.