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There's a bit more history to it. 1. matt's wwwboard: 1998 - January 1999 (trolling and technical difficulties?) 2. first ultimate bulletin board: January 1999 - December 1999 (destroyed by Y2K bug) 3. second ultimate bulletin board: January 2000 - November 2000 (technical obsolescence) 4...

Freddie Prinze Jr. will be appearing as Cole Ortiz alongside Kiefer Sutherland in Fox's 24 television show. New stills from the season premiere have recently surfaced. Several Wing Commander actors have appeared in various cameos, but this new position will be a high profile role. Day 8 has a...

Lots of people ask us where they can get background information or fighter stats for Wing Commander Arena. The answer is right here (7.7 meg PDF)! Star*Soldier introduces you to the world of Arena and fills you in on decades of new backstory for the end of the 27th century. It's a free...

Forums member Mace points out that Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell are both voicing multiple characters on the Metalocalypse animated TV show. Metalocalypse, a dark comedy show about American/Scandinavian death metal band Dethklok, is currently in its third season and can be seen on Adult Swim...

A lot of fans have never experienced Super Wing Commander, a Macintosh and 3DO revision of Wing Commander 1 and the Secret Missions, featuring improved graphics, full speech and an entirely new set of missions. Our copy of the Mac demo was lost or damaged in a server move, and the only known...

Everyone's favorite Blair is nominated for a Video Game Award in the category Best Voice. Mark Hamill earned the nomination for his part in Batman: Arkham Asylum. A prolific voice actor, Hamill has played the role of the Joker in most of the Batman cartoons and video games from the 1990s onward...

Firebrand Radio recently interviewed WC Saga's Keldor for their gaming podcast, Just Press Start. Episodes of the radio show can be downloaded here. The Saga segment comes up about 27 minutes into episode 2. -- Original update published on November 22, 2009

http://download.wcnews.com/files/mods/danr_gunsmod2.zip The updated raptor.iff is 1K while the one in your original archive is 120K. Is that normal?

Here's another look at one of WC Saga's ships based off an Origin concept sketch. This class is a Kilrathi carrier that they have named Dubav, after a ship from False Colors. The textures have come a long way since they first unveiled the ship. -- Original update published on November...

Clive Owen is cast in a drama directed by David Schwimmer (Ross on Friends), on the dangers of internet predators. Owen is the star of blockbusters such as Children of Men, Elizabeth and Shoot 'Em Up, but is best known to Wing Commander fans for portraying Lev Arris in The Darkening. --...

Origin founder, Ultima creator and space man Richard Garriott was recently on the Martha Stewart Show, displaying parts of his huge collection of automata. Garriott owns one of the largest private collections of antique and modern self-operating machines. You can watch the Martha Stewart segment...

[/url] Did you know that we have a WC Encyclopedia that every Wing Commander fan can contribute to? While the effort has so far been focused on a few specific areas, everyone is welcome to sign up and work on whatever they feel like. Article templates have been set up for common entry types...

Our Wallpapers section has been updated with the latest desktop backgrounds. Most creations are available for both widescreen and classic monitors. Check them out here. If you have artwork that you would like to submit, you can send it to our news@wcnews.com address or post it on the Forums...

Good Old Games (gog.com) is a relatively new service that sells older PC titles via online distribution. The games are patched to run on modern operating systems or simply bundled with a pre-configured copy of DOSBox or ScummVM. Instead of a subscription-based service like the ill-fated Gametap...

Only one of those is ours. With colocation, bandwidth costs are too high.

Other signs that this was a spam account waiting to strike: Posted first thread within two seconds of signing up. (Oddly enough in the correct subforum) Registered and posted on 480 forums over the course of one day. 1. Transport Tycoon 2. Red Alert 3. Carmageddon 4. Sim City 2000 5. Quarantine

In the weeks since Standoff Episode 5 was released, PopsiclePete has been working hard to add a cool new achievement system to the mission simulator. You earn bronze, silver or gold ribbons for successfully completing a mission. Star medals are awarded for exceptional performance, and there are...

There are now several multiplayer/hires/opengl patches floating around. It'd be really helpful if somebody typed up instructions on how to get from a plain WCP to the best possible result. Something like we did here.

If you're one of the many people that (re-)downloaded Secret Ops so you could check out the Standoff fan project, then you probably noticed that the setup wizard has a few problems on modern operating systems. PopsiclePete set out to just fix those issues, but he ended up creating a vastly...

The WC Saga website has been updated with in-game screenshots of a planet. Like our own Saturn, this planet has a ring of cosmic dust. Check out the Saga site for more images. -- Original update published on August 9, 2009