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Fun Privateer 2 Group Watch Set for Monday Night
LOAF, AD and the team have been doing big and exciting things lately with Privateer 2. To further their research and project prep, we're holding a group watch-along of the "director's cut" footage po... WC4 Remastered Trailer Now in German
ODVS has a nice treat for German Wing Commander fans (of which there are many!). With the help of Bernd Vollbrecht and Dr. Gerd Naumann, he's redone the audio for the WC4 Remastered trailer. It's a ... Space Sim Options for Nintendo Switch Owners
Nintendo shipped its new aptly named Switch (OLED Model) today, so we wanted to point out a few options for Wingnuts with the new console. These are all perfectly valid for existing owners of the pri... Softwear Ad Still Odd in English
We've finally dug up the English version of the bizarre Softwear Wing Commander ad for the Playstation. It features some nonsensical text about the model's outfit being inspired by Wing Commander 3. ... Visual Novel Project Highlights Story of Classic WC
SonataFanatica has started posting a series of "visual novels" that include just the story portions of the original Wing Commander games. So far he's completed Wing Commander 1, both Secret Missions ... Explore Strange Old Worlds
Veteran Wing Commander artist Alan Gutierrez has updated his DeviantArt page with three of the astronomical paintings he created for the Wing Commander card game's nav points. One of them has even bee... Grin and Behr It
Well before Alexa and Siri, before even Merlin there was... Dani! One of the selling points of Privateer 2: The Darkening was that your ship's computer was voiced by British actress and presen... Visit The Argent Sector's Slickest CIC
Flat Universe's latest picture update features the CIC! Not the CIC here at WCNews.com, but rather, the combat information center for Daedalus Station. It's pretty fantastic for fans of glowing ligh... Avid YouTuber Records Almost Entire WC Series
We've scaled back our coverage on 'Let's Play' videos as they've become more commonplace, but we really missed the boat on the series of playthroughs made by BCSBuster. He got going with these more t... Historic Experiment Remembered with Secret Ops Anniversary
Today marks 16 years since the end of Wing Commander Secret Ops' episodic run. The game's first chapter was released on August 27, 1998, which kicked off an exciting seven-week adventure. New fictio... The Heart of the Tiger Comes Out Ahead
In a fun contrast to yesterday's news that showed a 3D Hellcat transposed into a world of 2D sprites, today's update turns classic 2D Bluehair into a 3D model. dczanik has actually made two versions ... Pix or It Didn't Happen
Today the team revisited the Origin archives at the University of Texas and digitized almost 6000 pages of new Wing Commander-related material. It'll take some time to go through all the scans and se... Two Days To Go
RSI updates for today include another fiction teaser and a posting of the original June 2, 1990 press release that announced the first Wing Commander game. There's also a new concept image of the car... Return of the Mac
LOAF was recently inspired to rebuild an old Macintosh computer for the purpose of playing the three Macintosh Wing Commander games: Super Wing Commander, Heart of the Tiger and The Price of... Starcraft 2 Found Under the Influence
Game Informer magazine recently conducted an interview with Starcraft 2 lead designer Dustin Browder. The piece is actually quite lengthy and delves into a number of topics, and there's quite... GameTap Moving Away From Retro Games
GameTap, which brought several Wing Commander games to its subscription service in 2007, has announced that it's moving away from retro games. Their technical center in Atlanta will also be closing. ... Good Old Wing Commander
Good Old Games (gog.com) is a relatively new service that sells older PC titles via online distribution. The games are patched to run on modern operating systems or simply bundled with a pre-configure... Making the Game: Web Fiction - Episode 3 Default
Episode 3 starts with the previously mentioned update that left its picture request in at SecretOps.com: "Pictures Required: Various screen shots of fighting between Excaliburs, Thunderbolts, and alie... +4 HP for Wing Commander
Blitz has an interesting fan project in the early stages of development - a 2D Wing Commander RPG to be creasted using a system patterned after the classic 'Unlimited Adventures' CRPG toolsets. To ach... Star*Soldier Gloss: Page 57
This is the Star*Soldier gloss for the classifieds page:
CONCEPT: This one should be self-explanatory; many Wing Commander manuals have had short classified sections and they've always been so mu... Let The Stars Get In Your Prophecies
Are you enjoying the new starfields in Standoff? Then you'll behappy to know that Pedro and PopsiclePete have developed a new version of the WCP/SO OpenGL update which adds them to the 'original' game... The Art of Wing Commander Arena - Part Seven
And now, the end of the line in our long series of Arrows - literally! This is the finished result of all the previous design work - an orthographic view of the Arrow, looking very similar to how it a... Homeworld Mod Gets Wing Commander User Interface
Aaron Thomas is still chugging along at full steam on the WC4 Homeworld 2 mod. He's successfully upgraded the interface and HUD from the default to a Wing Commander inspired design. Since the game d... Saga Customizes Wing Commander HUD Too
The WC Saga team has posted several shots that detail the tweaks they've made to the HUD. Although it is very similar to the original Freespace interface (pictured third), you can see variations in a... Celebrate Seven Years Of Secret Ops
Today is the seventh anniversary of the final episode of Secret Ops going live. Episode seven concluded the ongoing saga and left the Confederation at an exciting crossroads. The final journ... Help Proof Gemini Gold's Instructions
The Gemini Gold team is continuing to streamline their Privateer fan project and make it more in sync with the original game. The next thing they need your help with is picking out things in Gold's m... Paper Ships Aren't Just For The French
Back in March we brought word of the French site S.F. Models Annexe, which features some impressive looking ships - all made out of paper. Rick Salemi noticed that the site Starship Modeler has added ... Ships of the Animated Series: Shuttle (K)
This shuttle is hardly the height of fearsome Kilrathi ship design - for a species that values jagged, knife-lie ships, the Kilrathi certainly have made a cute little pod-shaped transport. These shutt... Checking Out Heart of the Tiger's Lost Works
Heart of the Tiger let us know that a variety of his unique fan art creations have been overlooked over the past year. Anyone who's seen his past work knows how unique that really is. Among various ... Telepremiere
Peter Telep will be attending the premiere of Red Planet at Regal Cinemas - Oviedo Marketplace 22 in Oviedo Florida on November 3rd. For more details check his official site.... A Japanese Box
The famous Captain Johnny scanned this for me a while back... I showed it to the less-famous-but-still-well-known Joe Garrity, who said I should post it for everybody. It's the FM Towns (a Japanese co... More Free Shipping
DVD Box Office has once again extended their free shipping offer one month. If you haven't yet bought Wing Commander, you owe it to yourself to head over and grab a copy. And it's only $19.97!... Covers Hit Europe
Kris got his Prophecy keyboard skin from Simware. Here's what he had to say...I received my cover from Simware (www.simw.com) on Thursday, October 8. Simware left it in the original Cockpit Collection... We Must Catch These Ghouls!
Says Tony Knox. Rescuers attempting to save survivors of a shuttle crash on Hermes were horrified when they discovered that a Human Organs ring had got there first. Nobody had been left alive, and all... The Moment We've All Been Waiting For
At long last, it's here. Such as LOAF said yesterday, reporting on the final part of the Secret Ops epic does bring a tear to your eye. Go out there and save the day.. Long Live The Confederation....
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