George Oldziey on Orchestrating Wing Commander Music Here's a recorded copy of the George Oldziey live streaming event last year. We had posted about the interview in the run up, but never shared the final link. George talks with the Los Angeles Colle... Fun Finding Brings Belated Christmas Cheer More_Boom_Boom recently unearthed this Christmas card from his sister. It dates back a few years to when he was building a Star Citizen computer, but his sister didn't know all those details. Nevert... All Wings Considered - Episode 9 - LIVE!
The latest episode of ALL WINGS CONSIDERED is live now! All Wings Considered is the CIC's first ever streaming variety show which features news, conversation and gameplay relating to our favorite se... Playstation & 3DO Square Off In New Video Comparison 3dokid has put together a neat comparison that shows both the Playstation and 3DO versions of Wing Commander 3 playing side-by-side. PC players who might not be as familiar with the console variants ... Wing Commander Meme of the Day: Grandma Finds the Internet They don't call it super VGA for nothin'!
... Wing One Goes Mainstream
Did you miss out on The Fatman's Wing Commander soundtrack, Wing One? Good news: it's now available via mainstream digital music storefronts including Amazon and iTunes. The 27-track album i... Crusade Livestream Now Available Online The 25th anniversary playthrough of The Secret Missions 2 has finally been posted to YouTube! Fans who missed the live streaming event can now find the archived video below. It's not just full of sl... Rapier + Ninja = Boulder Blaster Wojo is well known as an aficionado of the WC Movie's Rapier I fighter. Recently he was shocked to see one Lego's latest toys, the Ninjago Boulder Blaster. It's a cylindrical fighter with a big rota... Rec Room 3D Perspectives In between recording Wing Commander long play videos, centaurianmudpig has been dabbling in 3D modelling with the open source Blender program. His very early version of the Tiger's Claw rec room is st... New WC RPG Demonstrates Combat Scenario There has been progress on several fronts in capi's Wing Commander Role Playing Game. A massive amount of proofreading has occurred over the past month, which brings that task to almost 90% complete.... WC vs History - Star Raiders
For Lt. General "Jimmie" Doolittle, who did the end run first. Thank you, Godspeed, and safe journey. – William Forstchen, Dedication Page, Wing Commander: End Run
An end run is defined a... Aerodynamic Raptor Prepares to Attack Klavs' gorgeous Raptor has gotten even more beautiful with its first textures. The ship's panel lines, color and decals help bring the heavy fighter to life. A prototype wallpaper has also been mock... Wing Commander Rereleased in France A new version of the Wing Commander Movie has been released on DVD in France. This one appears to be the first edition to include complete French dubbing, and various sites with product reviews show ... OGREs Everywhere! Can You Help? AD is currently working on a very interesting project, but he needs help investigating some OGRE 3D mesh files. If this is your kind of thing, please head over to Crius.net and lend a hand. Technical... Take the New Poll for a Spin The popular 'introductions' poll has a sequel today. The question has moved beyond the main games and now asks which spin-off had your favorite beginning. Each choice has a pretty unique and interes... Making the Game: Mission SA1 Not content with only seven 'rookie' training missions, the proposal also adds three 'advanced' missions (which is even more confusing, since three of the rookie missions were called 'advanced', too..... Fastidiously Fixing Fralthra Bob has taken on the challenge of 3D ship recovery with surprising results: he has been able to restore almost all of the information in the crippled Fralthra 3DS model to its original form! He says:
... Cunningly Crafting Cruisers ... and as soon as Bob's recovered Fralthra hit the vacuum, fans went to work! Death Angel has developed a 'cleaned up' version with higher resolution textures (left) and Kevin Caccamo has created a v... Axius of Evil Aaron has updated with good news about his WC4 Homeworld 2 mod. The biggest announcement is that the mod now has a working AI for all three races - Confederation, Border World and Black Lance. A new r... A Picture Worth 200,000 Credits Space Pirate, the artist behind some excellent Centurion and Talon 3D artwork, is back... with another Centurion! As you can see, the ship now has textures... and has been presented in a cool 'bluepri... Important: Wing Commander for Charity
Origin veteran Sean Murphy will be riding in a charity bicycle event, and he has an offer you shouldn't refuse: Wing Commander renderings for charity! Here's the deal:
I don't know if you... Time Running Out To Win Pete's Presents
There are only ten days left until PopsiclePete's birthday on April 28. On that date, you could well be the person receiving the gifts as Pete is hoping to give away prizes. To be in with a ch... Captain Johnny Reveals Super Wing Commander Quite a lot of fans have never experienced Super Wing Commander, and one of our most important tasks here is to highlight Wing Commander products such as this. SWC was a Macintosh and 3DO revision of... More Privateer Resources For Russians Elite-Games.ru is a pretty neat looking Russian website devoted to space combat trading sims similar to Elite or Privateer. They highlight a couple dozen major games in the genre, including Privateer... Dan Orzulak Working on GoldenEye 2
GameSpot recently reported that Dan Orzulak is among a handful of people who appear to be working on a new GoldenEye title at EA's Los Angeles studio. Though they credit him as a famous membe... George Oldziey Still Orchestrating While LOAF was checking out The Punisher, ace saw the second Kill Bill and noticed something kind of neat. Apparently veteran Wing Commander musician George Oldziey also had a role in orchestrating a... Retailers Begin Not Shipping Prophecy Advance.. Again Sorry to run you in circles once again, but after a week of uncertainty, it appears the dates have shifted. Kaybee has changed their listing to "Coming Soon" and Amazon has done similarly. Unfortuna... MyJEMM & Windows XP Mr. Ridge answered one of the more common questions about MyJEMM running on Windows XP.
...it would require completely different code than what MyJEMM uses on Windows 95/98/ME. I don't think it'... Where would you like to live? Digging way back into our archive of poll suggestions, Peter Griffin came up the idea for favorite Wing Commander planet. Where would you like to live? Originally our list of choices was a bit more ... Prinze To Leave Acting Business The Associated Press is reporting a startling revelation from Freddie Prinze Jr..
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) -- Freddie Prinze Jr. says he plans to stop acting eventually to pursue a writing career. "I'm g... WCPolaroids: Maniac (7/12) Maniac provides us with a rare and exciting closeup of the benches and floor in the Midway ready room.
... Taking on the Classics Remember that cool Rapier and Raptor models that Ender made? Well, here's his take on the Gilgamesh... But first, he posted this to the Chat Zone about his mod.
First of all, I've chosen to do al... To Jump or to Jump Differently? Phoenix, in working on the Rebel Assault 3D movie, has run into a problem... he's run out of colorful silk. Wait, no -- he needs to know which type of jump sequence you like best: Wing Commander 3/4 o... Flight Commander Released! Eddie Benowitz has released the first beta version of Flight Commander, his 3D Wing Commander game featuring an entirely new engine. Here's the details...I'm proud to announce the first public beta of... RFBurn's Two Cents RF Burns has begun what promises to be a fascinating new kind of fan project -- I'm very interested to see how this one (literally) takes shape. Here's his official announcement...Hi CIC! This is RF B... Taking on the Universe Darkmage has proposed a very, very complex fan project -- it's going to take a lot of hard working people to pull this one off! That's what you fan project people are good at, though... he's already r... They Used to be so Golden In his latest rambling, Desslock of Desslock's RPG News attacks Origin Systems. Some quotes:
After several disappointing releases immediately after its acquisition by Electronic Arts (Ultima VIII... Back Pain and Bad Chinese Food Allen Kramer reports that Starlancer was crowned game of the month by this month's Stuff Magazine. A snippet:So what makes the mighty Microsoft think Starlancer won't just float out there into the ink... Stand Down From Red Alert We're up and running again. Some lingering problems related to last week's crash caused our CGI to malfunction. Because of that sections like the poll, eBay script, Card of the Day and the Chatzones w... Hot Digger-ty Dog! Antipodean authority Professor Norm Packer reports. G'day folks, it's beauty here on Hephaestus as we celebrate the mythical annual festival of Barbie, the roots of which are lost in the mists of time... Mailing List For European Meeting Kris sent us this note about the possible European WC Movie "Convention" this summer.
I've set up a mailing list at Onelist. People that want to be kept up to date on the latest news about the WC... Tentative Release Date - Work In Progress We've been informed that a Fox mailing list reports July 2 as the probable release date for the WC Movie in the United Kingdom. Hades and LOAF are working to confirm that and will report back soon. ...
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