New Artistic Rendering Gives Map a Vintage Look Klavs has produced a new take on the venerable Wing Commander Movie universe map. About a year ago, he made an electrified version that really pops, and now he's got another novel recreation that loo... Star Wars Audio Boosted by Wing Commander Source Material Enough time has passed that I think we can finally share this spoiler content in the news. A recent episode of The Book of Boba Fett features an AI-enhanced CGI-esque Mark Hamill along with similarly... XBox Game Pass Finally Gets Access to EA Play While WC Games Removed from Play Service Electronic Arts and Microsoft have announced that Xbox Game Pass (PC and Ultimate) members finally have access to the EA Play catalog on PC. We reported last year that this would include the five Win... Sega CD Speech Being Added to PC Wing Commander! Destro has taken the wraps off an absolutely fantastic mod to add the voiceovers from the Sega CD version of Wing Commander back into the original! Lots of fans have talked about doing such a thing o... Prepare for Intense Space Combat... Also Book Club Episode 5 of All Wings Considered is less than two days away! This will be the team's most challenging episode to date as they take on the Special Operations 1 Finale. NINE Gothris escorting a Fralt... Kilrathi Fleet Gets Large Scale LLOD Upgrades A couple of monster models have made their way into the Last Line of Defense project. Using some newly discovered information, Deathsnake has scaled up his fearsome Rigakh cruiser. Fairly credible s... BREAKING NEWS: Game Cover Kickstarter Re-Launches
How do you save the Ralari? You just keep trying! In exactly that spirit, SNES Wing Commander cover artist Mike Winterbauer has re-launched his Kickstarter project. Mr. Winterbauer aims to publi... High Poly Swap Project Turns to Prophecy Having recently wrapped up the high resolution treatment for Secret Ops era ships, DefianceIndustries has now shifted his focus to increasing the poly count of Prophecy's fighter craft. The Vampire ne... WC4 Homeworld Mod Remastered! The WC4 Mod for Homeworld has now been fully relaunched! L.I.F. has made great strides over the path month with integrating czacen's original project into the Homeworld: Remastered framework. The ga... Hellcat V Hull Plating Takes Shape Whiplash's wooden Hellcat model has taken a big step forward in the realism department. The airframe shape was already spot on, but the texture so far has been a flat gray. Just like with a digital... Wing Commander Album Inches Closer to Target The live orchestra Wing Commander Kickstarter project continues to get closer and closer to the magical $35,000 threshold. What's been especially striking about the last day is that more than $1,000 ... Lengthy Chris Roberts Audio Interview Covers Wide Range of Topics Space Game Junkie has posted an extensive audio interview with Chris Roberts. During the nearly one and a half hours of discussion the group cover various topics ranging from Chris' earliest games to... WC4 CD to DVD Patch Upgrades Movies While the world waits and wonders what GOG will do after releasing WC3, there's something current owners of WC4 can do to jazz up their game. Fans with the CD version of The Price of Freedom can take... Privateer 2 Savegame Editor Updated Lin Kuei Ominae has released a new version of his Privateer 2 savegame editor. The latest version adds a number of new features as you can see below. Download the latest version of the savegame edito... Help Translate the Tome of Sivar WCX was inspired by the Standoff Easter Egg to attempt a translation of the Tome of Sivar. Although Prophecy provides a paraphrase of its own, it's no surprise that the glyphs depicted produce someth... DOSBox Walkthrough: Remapping Joystick Buttons Right now, DOSBox is the most popular solution for running classic Wing Commander games on modern hardware and operating systems. The PC emulator speed limits Wing Commander 1, allows Privateer and Ar... Making the Game: Mission E4b E4b is the losing alternative to the T'lan Meth 4a strike -- a sad mission, in comparison. Whoever wrote these mission notes, though, sure loved using 'hose' as a verb; I count eight uses...
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Crius.net pilots evacuate to the Corsair System this week while they regroup and conduct some under cover recon in Dralthis recovered from the Ras Nik'hra. The Tiger's Claw has also taken on some n... Learn The Moves Of A True Master
At the CIC we still get lots of questions about Wing Commander Arena, and one of the more common ones is how to get the tricky Ring Game achievement - Hot Dog. The Ring Game is activated by t... Our Own Tooner NinjaLA has begun work in earnest on a very impressive project: a Wing Commander comic! The art is very impressive -- it looks as though it were straight out of the original Claw Marks manual. So fa... Over the Radar Howard Day has posted a set of renders showing off the radar options in his upcoming Wing Commander Pioneer project. He gives the order as: Sentry S, Sentry SJ, Sentry Aura, IRIS MK.1, IRIS MK.2, IRI... Sosa's Sad Story Makes A Stellar Video It's been a while since AD's last music video, but this one was worth the wait. The story begins with Catscratch's funeral in Wing Commander 4. Subsequent scenes flash back to his relationship with S... WC Saga Continues Pre-release Grind
There hasn't been much news about WC Saga's actual project status lately, so Starman has provided some details on what the team's been up to this year. The Prologue demo length, story/script ... Get Your Tickets Booked It seems like flights are really cheap right now, making this the perfect time to book for Dragon*Con. Several of us already have tickets, which is a couple of months earlier than usual for us but I w... Kuiper? LOAF Just Mer Her! Antman and team have been working on a new space sim project. They are attempting to recreate elements of the original space sim Allegiance with a greater emphasis on capital ships. Allegiance was a... R-Type III Launches for the GBA The famous side-scrolling shooter R-Type III has been released for the Game Boy Advance in the US. This is the first game developed by Raylight since they made Prophecy Advance last year. I wasn't m... EA Closing Earth & Beyond This didn't come as a huge surprise, but Electronic Arts has announced that it will be shutting down Earth and Beyond this fall. E&B began as a Westwood Studios massively multiplayer space sim in the... WCA Art 20: Holo Tank This is just like the other holo-tank art posted a few months back... with one key difference! It's on instead of off! God, I'm such a geek for owning this... (and various other terrifying reasons).
... There's a Vampire Where?! In the absence of any real news (how often does CNN admit that?) here's a list I made up of Wing Commander references at PNRFilms.com. If you find any others, e-mail me here. It's certainly interestin... Space Combat 2000 WC Fan has updated the Prophecy executable, allowing it to be run in Windows 2000. Quite an accomplishment -- you can download it here -- unzip into your Prophecy directory.... Trivia 3 Week 21 If this week's trivia were a day in 2681, it'd be the day Kevin at TCIA sent Paladin a copy of Top Secret Report on Unidentified Military Threat #TGIA!Welcome to Game Three, Week Twenty-One Trivia. We... Fire-Proof Here's the cover art for Peter Telep's second Night Angel Nine Book, Playing With Fire. The first was pretty good -- like reading ER. You can pre-order a copy at Amazon -- to be released in May.
... Wing Commander Classic Feature at Gamespot Again A number of people have noticed Gamespot is rerunning the old historical feature on Wing Commander that they first released about a year ago. The Trivia game is long since over, but it's a neat featur... Wing Commander Soundtrack on the Radio Trashcan let us know that the Wing Commander movie soundtrack is being played at the end of the radio show "De Tijgers van de Zaterdag Avond" (The Tigers of the Saturday Evening) in the Netherlands. ... Word from the Front LOAF's getting better at home right now, but it'll be a good week at least before he's somewhat mobile. I'm sure everyone's positive wishes have helped.... Firing Squad Chris Roberts Article Technically it's a Starlancer preview, but the article begins with lots of talk about Chris Roberts. We don't really knows what he's done for Starlancer, but everyone sure likes to mention he founded... Some Mixed Alloy Reviews ATFW is reporting about two Alloy Gaming reviews for some of DA's games, Starlancer and Freelancer. Various Wing Commander references and the usual hype.
You’ll be able to fly in huge areas (spa... CIS Bulletin Hermes CIS are looking for anyone who can offer information concerning the whereabouts of one Neil 'Chipolata' Cook, who is chief suspect in the Deeson Prose murder. He is also implicated in the rape ... 20,000 Dollars At least thats how much the CIC's very own Chris Reid would have if he had a dollar for every post he has made to alt.games.wing-commander. What's more is this target was reached on Chris' birthday (M...
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