2014.364 (December 30, 2014)

Nomination Window Closing Soon

Voting will soon begin for the annual CIC Fan Project and Web Site of the Year contests. The staff is currently putting together a short list, but if there is a contribution from this year that you definitely want to see included in the poll, be sure to nominate them before the week is out! Below is a look at winners from recent years. Look here for the complete list of winners and runners up all the way back to 1999.

	Fan Projects of the Year	Runners Up
2013	Collected Works of HCl / Klavs' Models	Defiant Few
2012	WC Saga	Klavs' Models
2011	OpenGL Patch for WCP & Secret Ops	TacOps Online & Standoff
2010	Astro Commander's Mini Models	DirectDrawHack
2009	Standoff	Gemini Gold

	Web Sites of the Year	Runners Up
2013	Concordia Hangar	Daedalus Station
2012	Pix's Origin Adventures	Wing Commander RPG Wiki
2011	Shotglass'	WC Saga
2010	Paper Commander	Prelude to Darkness
2009	WC Saga	Standoff & Paper Commander

Wing Commander Movie Cuts Revisited

One of the bigger news stories of 2014 was Beckmen's movie treatment of Wing Commander Prophecy, combining DVD quality movie clips with recorded gameplay footage into a single, cohesive narrative. It is made in a similar fashion as Queeg's movie cuts of Wing Commander III and IV from several years ago. They are perfect for reliving a large part of the Wing Commander storyline in a relatively short timespan, and without having to break out a computer and joystick. Over the years, Queeg's WC3 cut has amassed a stunning quarter of a million views on YouTube! The CIC's Holovids section has an area dedicated to full-length fan edits where you can either download the video file in the highest available quality, or stream it in your browser.