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Download services like GOG and Origin provide by far the easiest way to enjoy classic games on a modern computer, but the boxed original is still nice to have. The Retro-Treasures blog scours various auction and e-commerce sites for obscure or cool pieces of gaming nostalgia. Their articles are...

Long time visitor and Wing Commander fan Arvin Bautista has tried his hand at directing a short sci-fi film. Vultures in the Void, a flick about pirates trying to hijack a space freighter, cites Wing Commander, Mass Effect and Macross among its influences. You may recognize the actors from...

That website is now at http://hcl.solsector.net.

Here's a quick update from George Oldziey on the status of the Wing Commander music album. He's currently putting the final touches on the music from Wing Commander IV's winning endgame. The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra is now scheduled to record the highly anticipated reorchestration towards...

Narrated by John DiMaggio (Bender, Futuruma), I Know That Voice is a documentary about the world of voice acting. Mark Hamill is just one of dozens of well-known voice actors providing anecdotes and insight. He even pops up in one of the trailers. The documentary is available on-demand through...

It's not just centaurianmudpig that has been posting Wing Commander video walkthroughs to YouTube. AD has come across another series of WC1 long play vids, from Dan Gheesling. Gheesling won the tenth season of Big Brother back in 2008, and has since made additional appearances in seasons 11 and...

CIC Staffer and Star Citizen community manager Ben Lesnick recently picked up an external memory cart for his Sega CD (aka Mega-CD) gaming console. Why is this news? Because the Sega CD port of Wing Commander has a cool visual effect when you have this add-on plugged in. Shaped like a Mega Drive...

Internet Relay Chat or IRC may date back to the late 1980s, but it's still a great way to interact with people. You can chat with other Wing Commander fans in the #Wingnut channel on the CIC network (irc.wcnews.com). While this used to require a dedicated IRC program installed on your computer...

Veteran actor john Rhys-Davies will be appearing at the Cincinnati Comic Expo on September 19 - 21. While he is most famous for playing James "Paladin" Taggart in Wing Commander III and IV, you may have also seen him in Digital Anvil's Freelancer, the Indiana Jones series or the Lord of the...

The CIC's very own Ben Lesnick will make another appearance at this year's DragonCon. As the community manager and a designer for Cloud Imperium Games, LOAF hosted last year's Star Citizen panel and was interviewed by several video game news reporters. Development has progressed a lot since last...

WCP.zip seems to be a .rar archive that has a .zip extension. It opens fine with 7zip but Windows explorer chokes on it.

It might be ctrl-f5 instead. I could only reproduce it in Explorer, but it seems to be fixed there. Can you try again? Thanks.

Try force-reload (shift-f5) and then fill out the form?

You can probably do it in HTML and Javascript, using jQuery based libraries like datatables and jQuery UI. That way it'll work on any mobile device (and computer) and you don't need to worry about weird appstore rules.

We are currently working on a small side project and we could really use the help of a few native Russian speakers. If anyone out there is willing to help and has a few minutes to spare, please contact me. Thanks! -- Original update published on August 6, 2010

Hardly HD, but someone made a bilinear smoothing patch for WC1-4: https://www.wcnews.com/news/2010/09/07/directdraw-hack-1-0-released

Forums member wcnut noticed that his easy-to-use Mac launcher for Standoff and Secret Ops no longer works on the latest release of OS X. He's put together a new bundle that includes a newer version of the Wine emulator, and now everything runs smoothly again on OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Grab it here...

Two actors from Wing Commander IV appear in the new season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy. Mark Dacascos (Troy "Catscratch" Carter) plays Kung Lao, a shaolin monk who was introduced in Mortal Kombat II (1993) and is buddies with Liu Kang. Van Dien appeared briefly in Wing 4 but is best known for...

As part of our 15th anniversary slate, we rolled out an updated Holovids video archive. We've now converted one set of movies that was missing on August 10: the VHS quality Privateer 2 cinematics have been converted to modern streamable formats (H.264 and WebM) so that they can be watched from...

For the 2006 CIC Anniversary, we launched the Holovids video archive as the central repository for trailers and previews, original cinematics, behind the scenes material and deleted footage. The section contains dozens upon dozens of downloadable movie clips, collected over the CIC's long...