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Sadly, Privateer 2 actor Clive Owen missed out on the best supporting actor award at last night's Oscars ceremony. Best known to us as Lev Arris, Owen had been nominated for his excellent performance in the movie Closer, which has previously netted him the best supporting actor award at the...

We're still searching for aliens with the help of the wcnews SETI@home group. Our local statistics page has been updated to reflect changes over the past five months. In those five months we've gained 27,000 results and 11 years of CPU time. At the bottom of the page we've also added the...

During the CIC 20th Birthday celebrations we launched our Game Cabinet feature. This allows you to try out the WC1 and WC2 rolling demos from within your browser - no installation required! By tweaking a few things, we have been able to unlock a bit of extra performance so those demos now run...

Here at the CIC, we get asked a lot of questions. Sometimes they are even about Wing Commander. But when we noticed that we were no longer getting so many questions about running Prophecy on a 3Dfx card in Windows 95, we decided that it was time to act! As a result, our Contact Us page has been...

A little under a month ago we were all celebrating the 10th anniversary of Wing Commander Arena's release, so this seemed an appropriate time to revisit our coverage of the game. In doing so, our Background section has now been given a dedicated Arena page, and our original Arena mini-site has...

It's an exciting day for the Holovids section - all of Prophecy's cinematics have been converted and made available for streaming. This means that every single cinematic from the FMV games are now online! Continuing his work from previous years with WC3, WC4, and Privateer 2, AD has taken the...

In honor of Wing Commander 4's 20th birthday earlier this year, we have taken all of the cinematics from the DVD version of the game and put them in to our Holovids section! AD has converted all of the videos to the latest streaming formats, and these have been combined with the game's script as...

Veterans of the alt.games.wing-commander newsgroup will remember Gary Hladik's fan fiction known as Wing Commander 4.123106: The Price of Entertainment. The thirty four instalments were posted to the newsgroup between the dates of August 18, 1996 and August 29, 1997 and parodied the story from...

We didn't have to wait long for the big news that Chris Roberts promised earlier today - you can now back Star Citizen using Kickstarter! To complement the announcement, Mr. Roberts has also produced a video to appeal to anyone still unsure about pledging. It is well worth watching, if only to...

Ahh, okay. I didn't get around to clicking that button because it took a good 5-10 minutes just to get to the first mission. I lost count of how many times I had to change disk to get to that point even. Not to mention that the game was horrendously slow on an Amiga 500. For that reason, I'd be...

I fired up my Amiga 500 just this past week to check my WC disks (which I had stupidly stored in a box along with CIC magnets). I distinctly remember the menu having a "Start Secret Missions" button, although I'm guessing that is just SM1. I don't remember what the CD32 version has.

Limiting DHCP wouldn't help if he is smart enough to set a static IP, and potentially you could end up locking yourself out if he got a DHCP address first. MAC filtering is probably the way to go if you want to block him completely. I'm not familiar with Linksys options so I don't know what else...

Hi. I'm British and I know what's going on. Wow, that thing is amazing! I kind of want my own now but I don't have the money or the space to throw at something like that. I hope you do manage to get the sound working, it'll become a great little project. I wonder why the ebay seller didn't...

UPS delivered my xbox to the repair place (in Frankfurt) on Wednesday, but the xbox repair tracking thingy still says "Waiting for Device at Service Center". I wonder if it's too soon to get worried.

I don't think so.. actually I think I'm kind of lucky with that in a way since the original 3 year warranty runs out in about 2 weeks. So if the thing had died 3 weeks later, I might have been facing a repair bill. My xbox was collected today so I'll see how long it takes to fix.

I don't really know about newer xbox models.. I think they still have the problem to some extent. None of my xboxes have been a newer model though.. Xbox number 1 was a launch model that was the most reliable of the lot.. it lasted nearly 2 years before it broke. Xbox number 2 was the same...

Having WC on Gametap was great for introducing new people to the series, but it didn't offer anything new or unique for existing WC fans. It just took the game files and used DosBox on them. If you have your original DOS disks, there's nothing to stop you doing the same, regardless of which...

While doing his usual "browsing", CIC staffer KrisV stumbled across a site which tracks where various former porn stars are now. Ginger Lynn Allen, famous for portraying Rachel Coriolis in WC3/Prophecy, also enjoyed a stint on the adult film circuit in the 80s and 90s and apparently she still...

Yeah, I guess I had fairly bad luck maybe. I sent it away and MS said it'd take about 20 working days.. but it came back in 7 with a new motherboard. Overall I had about an hour of play out of it before it locked up and only gave me the red ring after being turned off and on. So it's gone back...

The craziest thing about that show is how they somehow managed to persuade respected astronomer Patrick Moore to be the dis-embodied and creepily distorted head of the GamesMaster. The guy must have been nearing 75 at the time and I bet he has never picked up a computer or console game in his...