New DOSBox Staging Update Fixes WC3 Video Playback Master O dropped in to share that a new version of DOSBox Staging has been released. We've previously reported that while development of the original DOSBox largely stalled out years ago, fans are st... New Modeler Cutting Teeth on Tiger's Claw Here at the CIC, we're super lucky to have quite a few fan artists who are also professional 3D modelers in their day jobs. But everyone has to start somewhere, and we're also big supporters of Wingn... Custom Emulated Cabinet Depicts Arcade Wing Commander Here's an unusual oddity. AD found an emulation cabinet that purports to play the Sega CD version of Wing Commander. Upon further investigation, it's not really clear if Wing Commander is actually i... From Russia, With Dazzling Space Art Look at this amazing slush art ship that AD found in a Russian Wing Commander article. In Russia, tiger claws you!
... Unbox Amiga WC1 with Matching Cutscenes UnboxingHands has done an unboxing video for Wing Commander. I like these types of videos because Wing Commander arrived before modern YouTubing, and these are such fun games to open up! A couple th... New Info on Upcoming Musical Projects! There's exciting news about the next phase of composer George Oldziey's musical works! He's now working through the bidding process to price out what it would take to create a second album of live or... CGW Preview Stokes P2 Hype FredDude posted this nifty sneak preview of Privateer 2 from the October 1996 issue of Computer Gaming World. You can see they're pretty excited. The author spends quite a bit of time talking about ... Wing Commander Meme of the Day: High Expectations Asian Father Maybe because this isn't The One starring Jet Li
... GOG Weekend Sale Runs the Series Still holding out on picking up digital copies of the greatest games ever made? It seems unlikely, as you're visiting the Wing Commander community hub in 2017 AD... but just in case, GOG are having an... Brazilian Gaming Site Posts Arena Video The Video Game Database website posted an interesting video of Wing Commander Arena in action. Since the game was released in 2007, it came a bit before recording and streaming things like this becam... Majestic Vesuvius Sets Sail LC4Hunter is getting back into Wing Commander modding, and he's chosen the Vesuvius to return in a big way. The carrier looks sufficiently massive next to a carrier or destroyers below, and it has a ... German & Spanish Novels Round Out The Set Last week's post about the Czech Wing Commander novels generated a lot of interest in the series' books - especially the non-English translations. The two other places that got proper novels were Ger... Time to Think Outside the Box Wing Commander games are well known for their amazing manuals and other boxed goodies, but the boxes themselves are a treat too! They all feature iconic art, and many even include snippets of bonus f... Va ka Garga ka naru ha Garga NinjaLA has sketched a new fearsome Kilrathi. With his latest warrior, Ninja has done a good job of introducing menacing facial features, and this sinister look goes beyond just drawing a humanoid ti... Wing Commander on French TV The Wing Commander Movie will be airing on Le Nouvel Observateur in France over the next few days. Specifically, it will be carried on the Canal+ Family channel. There are five fantastic showtimes s... New MUSH Drops Players into Gemini Gemini Sector is a new player in the Wing Commander MUSH world, and it sounds pretty neat! This text-based RPG allows players to assume the role of pilot, marine or crew member on a Bengal class carr... Complete Your Collection With Wing Commander Academy There haven't been as many super sized file downloads in the news lately, so we're underrunning our bandwidth for the month. The Wing Commander Academy series is one of our biggest items, and it's a ... Specialty Kat Ships Invade EAW In addition to the impressive armada of familiar Kilrathi ships to be featured in the Wing Commander Invasion mod, Major Payne has incorporated a couple of special designs. The first is based on a pi... Making the Game: Series C Overview The 'C' series of missions became Prophecy's "G'wriss" series, which showed the first (... and basically only) other human capital ships and introduced Nephilim capital ships. Two notes: "• Player wil... Final Assault On K'tithrak Mang
Wingnuts are playing through the whole series again and posting their battle accounts to the Forums. The community replay of Wing Commander 2 is now entering its final stage. This week covers the K'... Making the Game - Part 7 Today's document is the April 30, 1996 version of the Wing Commander V/Prophecy org chart, along with job descriptions (dated May 7, 1996) for the various leadership roles. They don't sound too bad - ... Alone in the Night Gevatter Lars has a neat new Wing Commander rendering to show off. It's called 'Lone Bhantkara': "Working on the Bhantkara model for the Wing Commander Saga Mod I more or less accidentaly created thi... Do Look Back It's been a crazy few days here in the Wing Commander sphere - things are only now slowing down following Electronic Arts' Summer Preview event which showed off Wing Commander Arena. Here's a quick r... Wing Commander High Def Showings Begin Again Next Week HBO has snuck in several showings of the Wing Commander movie in high definition over the next couple weeks. This is in addition to a ton of regularly scheduled showings on the various standard HBO c... A Quick Peek at EA at E3 The 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo come to a close, and GameSpot has helped wrap up by posting quick summaries of each major booth. Electronic Arts has one of the very best locations at the front... Holding The Line Chapter 201 The partying over at the WC Aces Club seem to be winding down after celebrating both their tenth anniversary and the release of chapter 200 last month. Now that the dust has settled, here's Raptor wit... Electronic Arts' E3 Lineup Announced EA has announced their extensive lineup of new games being unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo next week. The Need For Speed, Sims, Medal of Honor, Battlefield, James Bond, Harry Potter and... Behind The Scenes At The EA Booth We've managed to set up here in Los Angeles the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo. Although pictures of the construction phase of the show are generally prohibited, we've got some images of the El... Electronic Arts Los Angeles Visited At Night Last year we reported about the new EA LA compound where studios such as Origin would be consolidated in the future. While getting lost in Marina del Rey here in California, we happened across a surp... EA Officially Confirms XBox Live Compatibility Rounding out our EA news for the day is the information from the Microsoft Pre-E3 press conference. At the event representatives confirmed that numerous Electronic Arts titles would be taking the XBo... SWC Ship of the Day: Snakeir And now, Kilrah's standard carrier -- the Snakeir class. Just three more SWC Ships of the Day after this!
... Untelated Peter Telep Update For those following Peter Telep's career, his second Night Angel 9 book has been published, titled Playing with Fire. Buy it today, wherever books are sold... so, you know, like a bookstore.... An Ancient Mark Hamill Interview Twister dug this one up. In 1997 TheSite interviewed Mark Hamill. He mostly talked about Wing Commander and interactive movies in general. Here's an excerpt:We learned so much while we were making Win... Starlancer Takes on Tachyon: The Fringe The author of this article decided to do something original, and started off with a Wing Commander mention:The space shooter genre started on the PC a mere 10 years ago with Wing Commander. Today's sp... New 'Virus Weapon' Worries Police Gwyn Cannar reports. Law enforcement agencies are expressing concern at the commercial release of a totally new type of weapon. Known as the BSE (Binary Systen Eradicator), it is a high-level computer... MarkHamill.com Back Where It Belongs The new and improved Mark Hamill.com is open for business. The details are at the site, but basically they're under new ownership and there's a nice mention of WC3, WC4 and Prophecy on the main page.... News Flurry Intwydamalu sent us a note to tell everyone that due to E3, there'll be an increased amount of Starlancer news in the near future. I recommend Lanced.net for your day to day Starlancer needs, however... What He's Been Doing Lately Chris Roberts had the following to say at Next Gen. Thanks to ATFW.Freelancer, my epic space opera set in an insanely detailed and massive universe, is behind closed doors in the Microsoft suite. Tha...
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