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How are you defining EA in this context? How would the Electronic Arts corporation peek at what's going on? FWIW, we have current senior EA folks who are part of the CIC's discord chat right now (who happen to be very supportive of things like mods and fan projects).

The WC4 Remastered team is back with a big new update on the significant progress that the team has made over the last couple months. Although they haven't formally published any updates, they've been very busy at work on several fronts. Some key menu / interface tasks and video integration...

New Detroit. Just like Old Detroit.

You made it to the weekend! Time to repair, rearm and refuel. To help ease you out of the workweek, here's a brief primer on the Refueler. No, not the Condor Refueling Shuttle, but that's a good guess! We're going all the way back to the Privateer Refueler truck that was cut from the final...

ParadiseRegaind has posted an extremely cool and unique art piece to add to the collection. He worked with apesincaves to commission an awesome diorama cube of a familiar original Wing Commander setting and Hornet cockpit. The dashboard is right up front with a neat offset effect for a...

Yeah, things like the game's art assets are relatively extractable and available for something like this potentially, but I see the most likely path being to leverage some next generation form of Xbox 360 emulation that emerges.

Playing with things like volume for narration could be interesting, but one of the beautiful things about this mod is it doesn't just add voiceovers - it adds the authentic original voiceovers from one official version of the game to another. That's really neat.

Yeah, Quarto did a good job of summarizing the situation, but it can't be overstated how different the digital gaming landscape was. "Just make your downloadable game available on every major platform" wasn't a concept that existed. Microsoft pioneered the idea of small downloadable games like...

Also the Xbox 360 was good enough to allow for USB storage. Without any hacking/modding, you can stick a thumb drive into a 360 and make as many copies of Arena as you'd like just in case. These in turn can be copied back onto a 360 and used to make more backups, etc...

And that's why they're on this poll! I don't actually expect them to get votes, but if they make people remember that there were in fact cloaking ships in Arena, then that's success. Some people will dig a layer deeper and learn about the anti-cloak sonar and so on, which is great. As the...

We are off and running well into the 2024 now, so it's time to conclude our annual new year's poll. We've swapped in a new one about stealth fighters in Wing Commander. The question this time asks which craft you think sowed the most chaos, did the most damage and wreaked the most havoc over...

I don't have any to sell, but there was at least a Prophecy dev team patch out there. Also some Prophecy squadron patches for good measure:

Amazon.com has lowered its price for the upcoming Wing Commander Academy DVD set from $22.49 to $19.99. Fans who preordered at the higher price should be able to log into their account and verify that the "Pre-order Price Guarantee" has already adjusted their order. Amazon also offers special...

Check out this awesome Seahawk model that LOAF recently got 3D printed. The CIC staff love things like this, but none of us have the hardware or technical knowledge to make these ourselves. Fortunately, that's where the cottage industry of make-to-order prints comes in! Some sources can seem...

As January is already coming to a close, we're happy to announce the winners to our annual fan project of the year event! To start things off, we've got two fantastic projects that we are co-awarding Fan Project of the Year this time around. [/url] The first is Wing Loader, which had a...

The downloadable files and instructions to install are at https://www.wcnews.com/news/2021/06/06/fan-hack-adds-invisible-cockpits-to-privateer

Yeah, you used to have to go to SecretOps.com to register for the game before you could start it up. Part of the registration asked for your experience and then that chose the default difficulty level you started at. There is a ton about the Secret Ops experience that is somewhat lost to...

January continues to afterburner along - as does our annual Fan Project of the Year contest voting period! If you missed it last week, there's still time to get your vote in. Check out the nominees below and cast your ballot towards the project you were most impressed by in 2023! First...

Yeah, they could cause some trouble for a bootleg seller advertising their bricks as LEGO (which they don't), but we are also within our rights to misname the offending bricks we bought from someone else as "bootleg Legos."

It may be true it was a distraction, but I thought that window was very cool!