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  1. ChrisReid

    Check out These Collectible Portuguese WC Games (March 13, 2024)

    Dominus of Exult has some more cool collectibles to show off! He's managed to track down a pair of Wing Commander games localized in Portuguese. These rare copies of WC4 and Privateer 2 have a bit of warping and tearing damage, but it's still wonderful that they were saved. I'm still poring...
  2. ChrisReid

    Richard Riehle Reflects on Iconic Office Space Role (March 8, 2024)

    Today we have an interview from the Hollywood Reporter with the cast of Office Space on its 25th Anniversary. Richard Riehle has a lot to say, and I thought it was fun to hear his perspective on various things even if there's no direct connection to Wing Commander. I was surprised to see that...
  3. ChrisReid

    Famous WC1 Launch Recreated in Star Citizen (March 6, 2024)

    Mr. Hasgaha recently shared this nifty video that he built for a "10-second Cinematic" contest in Star Citizen. He was able to use elements of the existing game engine to recreate the briefing room run, launch and death of a pilot in the original Wing Commander. It's a short clip, but it's...
  4. ChrisReid

    Is there any information available on how WC1 & 2 in space gameplay/graphics were created?

    There would be substantial costs and risks associated with relaunching Wing Commander as a flagship AAA game, but nobody expects that would happen first. There are also, however, lots of creative ways that low cost, low risk potential ideas for Wing Commander could be deployed. And Wing...
  5. ChrisReid

    Fighter/Bomber In-Service Dates Visualized (February 29, 2024)

    Yeah, that's kind of by design. Each ship in Arena has a base model like the Arrow Scout above which is the pure fighter. The medium and heavier variants of each craft are that ship - plus a ton of custom armor and weapons grafted on, which reflects the desperate and creative times on the...
  6. ChrisReid

    New WC Ship Silhouette Discovered in Hebrew WC2 Translation (March 4, 2024)

    So who's going to draw/model this new ship?
  7. ChrisReid

    Fighter/Bomber In-Service Dates Visualized (February 29, 2024)

    At least three versions of the Arrow flew into the 28th Century!
  8. ChrisReid

    Originator

    Amazing, those look great!
  9. ChrisReid

    Is there any information available on how WC1 & 2 in space gameplay/graphics were created?

    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).
  10. ChrisReid

    WC4 Remastered off to a Great Start in 2024 (February 25, 2024)

    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...
  11. ChrisReid

    Learn About Privateer's Background Vehicles (February 24, 2024)

    New Detroit. Just like Old Detroit.
  12. ChrisReid

    Learn About Privateer’s Deleted Rufueler Truck (February 23, 2024)

    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...
  13. ChrisReid

    Artsy Diorama Shows Off Classic WC Scene (February 20, 2024)

    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...
  14. ChrisReid

    What Was the Nastiest Stealth Fighter? (February 3, 2024)

    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.
  15. ChrisReid

    Wing Loader (KS/WCDX) Loader & Voice Over Mod

    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.
  16. ChrisReid

    What Was the Nastiest Stealth Fighter? (February 3, 2024)

    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...
  17. ChrisReid

    What Was the Nastiest Stealth Fighter? (February 3, 2024)

    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...
  18. ChrisReid

    What Was the Nastiest Stealth Fighter? (February 3, 2024)

    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...
  19. ChrisReid

    What Was the Nastiest Stealth Fighter? (February 3, 2024)

    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...
  20. ChrisReid

    Official WC Development Team (and other) Patches

    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:
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