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Virtual reality may finally take off in 2016, and the Oculus Rift, Sony's Morpheus and Samsung's Gear VR will all have one or more space combat sims available when they become available to consumers. Eve: Valkyrie, Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen have all been confirmed as "VR-ready", and CCP...

Great. I've replaced the file. We'll run another update soon.

Is there any reason to keep the first version around as well, or should this file replace the old one?

We post a lot of interesting development documents and behind the scenes material in our daily news updates, but it can be difficult to keep track of them all. The goal of the Document Archive is to make it easier to research various aspects of Wing Commander's history by sorting those documents...

English actor Clive Owen is going back into space. Reports say he's been cast in the lead role of Valerian in the live-action adaptation of a long-running French comic series. The actor joins director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, L?(C)on) and co-stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in the big...

It wouldn't be difficult to restore it as a kind of museum piece (see webmirrors) but I feel that we should reach out to the owners first.

Over the next three days, GOG is discounting their entire EA catalog by 60%. Besides Wing Commander, Ultima and Crusader, their offer includes beloved classics such as Theme Hospital, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Kyrandia and Populous. While you can buy an entire series outright for the sake of...

A few years ago, we did a brief rundown of the wealth of Wing Commander inspired imagery that can be found on the DeviantArt website. AD's come across a new pencil sketch of a Kilrathi, created by AirenWoodmoon. Like most Kilrathi drawings on DeviantArt, this one seems to draw mainly from their...

Elite Dangerous, that other major crowdfunded space sim, is now available for Mac. David Braben's adventure/trading game was released for PC late last year, with Mac and Xbox One versions still in the pipeline. Mac users can now get the game directly from Frontier Developments or through Steam...

Wing 2 director and script writer Stephen Beeman recently shared some interesting facts about the WC2 demo, now almost a quarter century old. The awesome, 'alternative' intro animation is embedded below, or you can download the demo and check it out for yourself. Mr. Beeman also fondly recalled...

Artist HandofManos posted this stylish rendition of a Thunderbolt blueprint on DeviantArt. It's a slick five-view line art over a hexagon background. Check out his other awesome WC illustrations here. -- Original update published on April 30, 2015

Artist HandofManos posted this stylish rendition of a Thunderbolt blueprint on DeviantArt. It's a slick five-view line art over a hexagon background. Check out his other awesome WC illustrations here. -- Original update published on April 30, 2015

Try changing the file extension to something other than .zip. You can find lots of custom missions in the old missions section. Anything more you can tell us about this? Is Chartbuster an old videogame magazine? I couldn't find any trace of it. The file naming system does suggest Academy...

Matthew Lillard has been cast as the lead (grown-up) role in the upcoming remake of the 1990s comedy romp Problem Child. The actor will portray the father character, originally filled by the late John Ritter. Lillard has received critical acclaim for his directorial debut, Fat Kid Rules The...

The Academy animated series features a familiar but distinct design for the Bengal strike carrier that's always been one of my favorites. Community member unfortunatecrow kept staring at freeze frames of the Tiger's Claw until he could piece together a 3D representation. The resulting model is...

Classic FM, a UK radio station focusing entirely on classical music, did an extensive interview with videogame composer James Hannigan. His name may not sound familiar, but the titles he's worked on certainly will. Notable work includes Red Alert 3, RuneScape, Digital Anvil's Freelancer, Fifa...

Hate to be that guy, but can you also provide these in vorbis (.ogg) format? That way, we can embed them for in-browser playback. Browser MP3 support is still spotty.

Here's something from 2012 that we've only now come across. German Hip Hop artist Smudo (Die Fantastischen Vier / Fanta 4) was a speaker at the 2012 edition of LARA, a local awards event for videogames. Golem.de has some two minutes of footage in which the artist discusses his connection to Wing...

Voting will soon begin for the annual CIC Fan Project and Web Site of the Year contests. The staff is currently putting together a short list, but if there is a contribution from this year that you definitely want to see included in the poll, be sure to nominate them before the week is out...

One of the bigger news stories of 2014 was Beckmen's movie treatment of Wing Commander Prophecy, combining DVD quality movie clips with recorded gameplay footage into a single, cohesive narrative. It is made in a similar fashion as Queeg's movie cuts of Wing Commander III and IV from several...