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Krant and Firekkan Fighters Reintroduced to Wing Leader
We've got two Wing Leader ships today for the price of one! Howard Day has made major refinements to both his Krant and Firekkan 'Valtar' design. Both have extremely spiffy new cockpit art for displ... GOG Sale Discounts Main WC Games Plus Privateers
GOG is holding a new "Make Classics Last Forever" sale, and Wing Commander is included. This one is slightly unusual. All of the main games plus both Privateer 1 and 2 are marked down as you might e... New Gameplay Vid Highlights Diverse Arena Modes
Demon27248 has posted a nice capture of several rounds of Wing Commander Arena. Modern streaming content for WC Arena is sorely lacking, so clips like this are unfortunately few and far between. The... Blue Origin Successfully Launches Bezos Flight
For the second time in as many weeks, a private space tour company has launched their first fully crewed vessel (and their billionaire founder) into space. This time they had the audacity to do it on... First Cut of Enhanced WC3 Clips Released
Due to popular demand, ODVS has put together and posted a complete set of enhanced Wing Commander 3 videos! There is not yet a method developed to integrate these directly into the game, but it's sti... Happy Apollo Anniversary Day!
As most of you are well aware, today marks 50 years since the Apollo 11 landing on the moon. And although Earth's moon might not immediately jump to mind when you think about Wing Commander, it actua... Wing Commander Meme of the Day: Pompei Man
You know what they say, you're either an earthworm or a Wild Eagle...
... Arrow Kit for Sale!
Alfred Wong's Arrow model is here! The promised plastic model kit that allows you to build your own 1/48 scale Terran Confederation Arrow fighter is now shipping. The unfinished kit costs $165 Can... WC RPG Wrapping Up Encounters, Mocks Up New Ships
capi3101 is back with quite a few WC RPG status updates as well as a sketch for some new fighters. First up, he's made lots of house cleaning type updates concerning things like category list... Kilrathi RPG Expansion Bulks Up Story Component
It's been a while since we checked in with capi's Wing Commander RPG, and he's made consistent progress virtually every single week. In June he dived into the exposition that sets up the Kilr... Krant Hardly Wait To Play
Shaggy's completed the Krant fighter for Beat Hazard that he mentioned earlier this month, but the Kilrathi fleet isn't quite complete. The fearsome Jalthi is now in the works to supplement the kats ... Three Weeks Until the Birthday Party!
Less than a month to go! The CIC's 15th Birthday Party is now three weeks away. Join us on Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 7:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm PDT and 11:00 pm GMT, early Sunday morning in Asia/Austra... Otherwise, Treat With Caution
The November 1993 issue of Nintendo Magazine System contained a review of Wing Commander - The Secret Missions. It's probably one we could do without. The reviewer is snarky, to say the least. He gave... We Chose To Go To The Moon
Today is the 43rd anniversary of the human race first landing on the Moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface in the Lunar Excursion Module while Michae... One Step Closer to Flight Ops
Malcolm Reynolds has a more complete Tiger's Claw to show off. Over the last week, the model has gone from flat paper sheets to an actual three dimensional structure, and everything seems to be comin... Steady Progress Made on Images & Missions
Dundradal has a quick status update on WCPedia updates. A few dedicated fans are hard at work, but more volunteers are always needed. Visit Crius.net if you'd like to help, or check out the ... Ascendant Pictures Acquired by Bigfoot Entertainment
Chris Roberts' Ascendant Pictures company has been acquired by Bigfoot Entertainment. Ascendant was an expansion of the Point of No Return endeavor, which was briefly involved in the preprodu... Outside Help For WC4 Homeworld Mod
It's been some time since Aaron Thomas' awesome WC4 Homeworld 2 mod was last updated. L.I.F. was so impressed with the project that he decided to add a few features himself. Here's what's new:
Th... Even Better Birthday Party
There's less than three weeks left until the CIC's 11th Birthday party! Since this year also marks the tenth anniversary of the Wing Commander movie, we'll be hosting a special coordinated viewing be... Technosaurs: Locked and Loaded
Ready for action! Our equipment is packed for a short trip to the Origin Museum tonight - and then on to Mythic Entertainment tomorrow morning, where it will be used to archive a large collection of O... Making the Game - Part 76
Here's one for future historians: a big bundle of handwritten notes, emails and other documents fleshing out exactly how the MED (mission editor) software works. It will take some studying to apprecia... CIC Birthday Party Just Around The Corner
The Wing Commander CIC turns nine years old next month, and that means we're just three weeks away from our annual online bash! Since our last big party, we've gotten EA Replay, Wing Commande... She Moves On
The folks over at the Wing Commander: Against All Odds fan RPG have asked us to post a notice. In short, they've moved to a new location. Here's the official word:
The forums based RPG Wing Command... That's Gotta Hurt
The Escapist has published a very nice article about the history of Wing Commander development. Wing Leader starts with a very interesting story about Wing Commander's original unveiling and g... Placing Blame
Ars Technica is running an article called "Epic VP: Intel is killing PC gaming! Ars: Not really." The article is a reply to a recent speech by the president of Epic Games, who claims that Inte... Party Count Down: Three Weeks To Go
The CIC's Seventh Birthday is getting closer! With three weeks left to go, it's time to announce some of the door prizes that will be given away to party attendees. Some of the items include Game Bo... Rest In Peace James Doohan (1920-2005)
This morning James Doohan passed away from complications due to pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease. A lot of our visitors will mourn him as Scotty from Star Trek. He was getting old and had been sick... Remembering Thirty-six Years Of Interplanetary Travel
Today is the 36th anniversary of the first moon landing. To celebrate, Google added a bit of NASA footage to its maps database. Check out the feature here, and don't forget to zoom in. If you're lo... Come To The Birthday Party, Win Prizes
There are just three weeks to go until the CIC's Sixth Birthday! We're working hard to bring you some exciting new things this year. In the mean time, I thought I'd show you some of the prizes we ha... Trivia Week 3 Begins Today
Trivia Week 3 Questions are now out for our special summer trivia game. The answers to Weeks 1 and 2 are up, and there is now a scoreboard to see how you rate. You have one week to answer the follow... The TCS Paradigm, Not Just For OFX Anymore
Wing Commander veterans might recall the TCS Paradigm made its debut in the Origin FX Screensaver shortly after Wing Commander Privateer was released. It's a cool ship that we never learn much about.... Vega Strike Wins Major Award
The Wing Commander fan project Vega Strike has just received a trophy (literally) for coming in first place in the games category of a major French Software organization. Hellcatv's been working on t... Birthday Party Only Three Weeks Away
The tension is building here as we ramp up our preparation for the Fifth Birthday party. In recent weeks crowds in #Wingnut have swelled to around half where we'd normally be at a special irc event, ... DragonCon Report
DragonCon is America's largest Sci-Fi convention... and we're going to be there. Three CIC staff members -- LOAF, Cpl Hades and Death -- are making the trek... and the Origin Museum crew will have a t... A Day in the LOAF
Well, we always knew this day would come... thanks to the fact that the phone company is really really stupid, I won't be online for a whole weekend (the guy they send to look at our ISDN line didn't ... Looking at New Conquests with DA
LOAF noted that Gamecenter has recently posted an interview with Chris Roberts here primarily on the upcoming Conquest, but with a brief mention of Privateer 2 and Warthog. Roberts also talks about th... Did You Know Saffron Burrows Was in the WC Movie?
If you did, then you would have known enough to get through the Wing Commander questions at last night's Battlestar Commander SciFi.com Mindprobe trivia contest. The hourlong event was great fun.. fo... Contest Specifics
Apparently there's been some confusion relating to the Peter Telep Wing Commander Contest, with people questioning just what constitutes original artwork. Peter's web master has set up an explanation ... Tolwyn Poll
Well, the highly anticipated poll results are in: apparently 40.69 % of people firmly believe that Tolwyn was wrong to rescue the Tarawa in End Run......
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