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Another Standoff Mission Done
Eder has updated the Standoff website with the March 13 progress report. Mission coding is well under way and most of the Episode 5 missions are now in various stages of completion. The team has commi... Making the Game: Mission E2
E2 is the T'lan Meth wingman rescue, where Casey flies off to save Maniac's former wingman. I'd like to stress one thing here, a simple quote: "[Please move the ACE to E4. bjc]" That sums up the amou... Free Das Erwachen Book Up For Grabs
Deacan is running a contest to give away an autographed copy of Das Erwachen Stille. To enter, participants need to write up "test flight review" for one of the Privateer 2 ships. Articles on visi... Joysticks This, Markets That
Escapist Magazine has posted another article about the state of space combat sims. It also weaves in a bunch of info on fan projects in work today. The author talked with several ongoing projects, b... Pioneer Gets New Graphics
While the WC Pioneer project has been relatively quiet in public, Howard Day has been working on some new visuals behind the scenes. The project's Hunchback fighter has been given a bit of an overhaul... New Bridge Commander Preview In Work
BES has posted a progress report on the next test release of his Bridge Commander mod. Basic models are 10% done, scripts are about 80% complete and ship component modeling is almost finished. Indiv... Adversaries' Iconic Ships Added To Nexus Mod
There have been both large and small additions to Wing Commander Apocalypse this week. The Dralthi is currently in the middle stages of being retextured with a high res finish, and a massive Tiamat d... Idle Thoughts Drift To Privateer
Major Striker let us know about an article we'd previously missed over at IdleThumbs. The site recently wrote a nostalgic retrospective on the original Wing Commander Privateer. Somewhere between El... Striker's Raptors Defend The Falcon
Major Striker has put together a new animation that's a compilation that combines several of his recent works. The animation features an attack on a Bengal Class Carrier and some dogfighting between ... Space Suits Can Be Sexy
While searching for someone with the same fetish as himself, Delance stumbled across this website featuring women in space suits from various films and TV shows. It seems that to qualify the women hav... It's Not A Jailbreak
LOAF reactivated a number of banned Crius.net accounts this morning. Hopefully this goodwill can help a few projects get back to business. Record levels of new members have filled the forums this mo... WC Fiery Ardor MUSH Needs Staff
There's a Wing Commander MUSH by the name of Fiery Ardor that's been secretly under construction for the past four months. It's a text based role playing game. They're getting to the point where the... Wing Commander Movie Turns Five
With all the various projects going on this past week, we missed the Wing Commander Movie's fifth birthday on Friday. It seems like just yesterday that we were posting new screenshots for the upcomin... Blast From the Past, Part 1
Wildfire dug up an ancient e-zine that has some interesting pre-release info on Wing Commander 3. The cover story on this gem is a review of Doom 2, if that helps you to date it (and we all know a fe... Official DC Guest List Page Up
They've gone ahead and put together a full Wing Commander/DragonCon guest list page. As of this writing, there are 52 confirmed guest, with lots more to come. Some of the more famous guests confirme... We're Giving Away Game Boys!
Because actual firm release date information for Prophecy Advance is rather hard to come by, we haven't been able to cement plans for our Launch Party. But shortly before or after Prophecy's release,... WCPolaroids: Maestro (3/12)
Apparently this is some sort of reaction to the creature walking in the background.
... WCA Art 17: Bridge
The bridge of the Tiger's Claw -- where Tolwyn stands in the intro to every episode (and at various other points in the series). Commander Nelson, you have the con.
... Fan Art!
Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. The first masterpiece is a Banshee class fighter done by Alan Hart. Very nice! The second is from... uhm... noted author Trelane. It's... ah... very sp... The Assault Continues
Wing Commander: Rebel Assault, a fan-made 3D movie, has posted three exciting new screenshots... The ground-based stuff in this one is particularly nice looking. ... Get In The Zone!
The WCZone for SubSpace is opening! Be on hand this Friday at 7 PM EST (Saturday, 12 AM GMT) to get in on the action... You can download SubSpace, now freeware, at subspace.net... and then the final s... WCIV Movies Redux
Phoenix has sent in a fully functional, user friendly version of the Xan Codec -- you can get it, with instructions, here. Great job... He's put up a fully converted DivX of the Orlando Depot scene he... Tolwyn in NZ
Raptor sends word that the TV3 web site now has a star profile of Malcolm McDowell -- TV3 is the New Zealand Station currently running Wing Commander Academy each wednesday. To access the profile, cli... Fearsome Ferret
The Wing Commander Model Development Forum has posted this picture of Brad McKinstry's "new and improved" P-64 Ferret model. They're also looking to create an index of WC mod's using their models -- i... There's Always eBay
In November of last year (see the update) JP Meyer contacted EA Direct about the possibility of Kilrathi Saga and Wing Commander 4 being rereleased again. He was told that while uncertain, it could ha... CIC Receives Website of the Day Award
Today the CIC received some rather exciting news from Daily Website.Your web site, "Wing Commander Combat Information Center" http://www.wcnews.com, has been chosen to be the web site of the day on Ma... It Always Rains on the Weekend
LOAF, who is currently on Spring Break, had surgery two days ago again and it turned out to be more serious than expected. He's currently recovering at home and we could have some more info Friday.... Are You in Search of Lost Childhood?
Are you looking in vain for that innocent joy which made life such a constantly rewarding experience?Is your quest made all the more poignant by the fact that you know it's impossible? Maybe we can he... It's Official
According to the official box office figures, the WC movie took $5 Mil. over the weekend. Here's how it compared to others in the weekend top ten:Weekend Box Office (March 12-14)#1 Analyze This ...
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