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Album Campaign Reaches $15,000 Milestone!
George Oldziey's campaign to create a second Wing Commander Album had an amazing weekend! After getting a big boost from some generous matching funds, the story was picked up at Slashdot. Altogether... Eclipse Glasses Still In Short Supply In 2790
There's a Privateer 2 News Bulletin that's especially timely today! This blurb was a way of conveying that the price of optic nerve commodities was increasing on planet Hephaestus (and it was written... Looking Back At The Heart Of The Tiger's Awesome Premiere Edition
One of the most elaborate packages in the Wing Commander series is the Premiere Edition of Wing Commander 3. In addition to the regular items that everyone got, it included a color version of Warbird... Frontline Nephilim Invaders Recreated
Dark Sentinel has returned with complete versions of his Nephilim Manta and Devil Ray fighters. Both have been fully textured, and there's a third bonus fighter: the reddish brown Manta bomber. Neph... The Fat Man Dishes on the Latest Game Audio News
George The Fat Man Sanger has participated in a new episode of the Bleeps 'n' Bloops game audio podcast. Rather than merely an interview about the Fat Man's music, it's a free flowing conversation on... Guns Blaze In New WC Comic
NinjaLA has posted the latest spread in his Wing Commander comic. The dogfight heats up in these frames as Angel and Hunter tangle with some Dralthi. We get our first peek at the Kilrathi here, just... Party Log Reveals CIC's True Colors
Jetlag has tweaked the log from our recent CIC Birthday Party so that all the color coding renders properly. This makes it much easier to see which text lines are people talking compared with the... Dazzling Detail Graces New Fighter Images
Klavs' physical models are amazing, but technology hasn't reached the point where they can pop out of the replicator completely painted. Until we reach that day, his amazing new renders will have to ... Relive the Subterfuge in Jotunheim
FekLeyrTarg has made a neat video of the Gwenhyvar Encounter mission that Kevin released for the CIC Birthday. The Exeter destroyer in the system comes across as very imposing and exciting to attack!... EA Looks Back Again
The big European Gamescom event was held in Germany last week, and all major publishers were on hand to promote their holiday lineups. EA Labels Predident Frank Gibeau also spoke to Computer and ... More Cool Stuff in Arena 3D
There continues to be more progress on the Arena 3D meshes front. NinjaLA used Ogre and 3D Ripper to pull out these shots of a Midway carrier, Indomitable battlecruiser and Halsey station. They have... Behind The Science of Super Soaker Collecting
Here's some behind the scenes pictures taken during the filming of my collection a couple weeks back. Going through all the Soakers with them was a blast. The final clips have been posted on the ABC... Ultima Online Expansion #8 Coming Soon
Electronic Arts has announced a release date for the 8th expansion to the long-running Ultima Online. Stygian Abyss will be available to purchase September 8. It will be available as a digital downl... Making the Game: HUD Panther
Today's HUD is the Panther. It's interesting that so much thought went into these different layouts; ultimately, they all function very similarly.
These updates are thanks to John "Captain Johnny" ... Red Alert 3 Dials 867-5309
Electronic Arts has some interesting news -- Red Alert 3 will feature a large cast of 'name' actors rivaling that of Wing Commander III... which even includes one Wing Commander star (Tim Curry, Origi... Star*Soldier Gloss: Page 9
This is the Star*Soldier gloss for the fifth Joan's page:
CONCEPT: See the previous post!
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Note the shift from blue to red headers for the ship names, the color most assosciated w... On The Wings Of A Lego Dralthi
Another day, another amazing Wing Commander creation. nnenn made this fantastic Dralthi out of Legos, MegaBloks and other compatible brick toy brands. He says that once in a while he might use some ... Research? Bah!
Maxi de Sokar reports on a Play.TM article which gives a 'history' of the Wing Commander series, going from the original 1990 game through to today. As a basic timeline it's fairly well done, but thei... EA Replay's Release Date Slides
GameStop has adjusted its product listing for EA Replay, the Origin compilation that includes Wing Commander ports for the Sony PSP. They now project a November 7 ship date, back from an original est... X3 Hit By Kilrathi Rebellion
Hunter is working on a Wing Commander mod for X3 Reunion called Kilrathi Rebellion. The project will also use elements from other space sims and some fan creations. From what we could glean from Hunte... Brush Up On 3DO's Wing Commanders
We've had some questions about 3DO Wing Commander games recently, and Geebot helped us narrow down a Penny Arcade update as the source. The two titles for the 3DO were Super Wing Commander and Wing C... Find Matching Tiles
We've added seven new games to the Forums Arcade. Compete against other Forum members for the title of Mahjong or Duck Hunt champion! Crazy Closet tests your reflexes while Plumber requires patience a... PeteyG Remixes Wing Commander II Themes
PeteyG has redone the main Wing Commander 2 song and the classic Kilrathi theme with higher quality instruments using Propellerhead's Reason 2.5 software. He's spent a few days taking feedback at Cri... X2 Expansion Confirmed
A post over on the Egosoft forums indicates that an official expansion pack to the German produced space-sim X2: The Threat is now in the works. Though I'm not a big fan of the X games, it's very reas... Standoff Mod Needs Voice Actors
The Standoff Secret Ops mod has reached the point where they need your help. They've got plenty of cool ships, but they need fans to contribute voice dialogue for the mod next. Here's Eder.
Most ... Memories From DragonCon, 7 Days To Go
We're going to run through a whole bunch of last year's DragonCon shots over the next week as we count down to this year's convention. This is the first shot in a series of famous ones where the rest... Wing Commander TV Show
Seems very few people are aware of this. Chris Robert's PNR Entertainment website mentions Wing Commander under TV Shows in Development:
Wing Commander: The Television Series: Chris Roberts (a.k.... WC Saga Trades Conquest for Starshatter
WC Saga reports that it's no longer using Digital Anvil's Conquest: Frontier Wars for its Real Time Strategy mod. They're switching to Starshatter instead.
Starshatter in action
The simila... DragonCon Redux
Since we've gotten a lot of questions about our offer to advertise fan projects at our DragonCon booth, I'm posting this more specific article...
Any Wing Commander fan project, club, web site, etc. ... From: CIS Headquarters, Special Ops. Div.
The CIS command seeks highly qualified, disciplined pilots to conduct a reconnaissance mission on a civilian convoy at Nav Point 149. Intercept and identify the convoy suspected of transporting contra... Wing Commander Coming to TVs Across America
"WING COMMANDER (1999). Two young fighter pilots (Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard) lead a mission to save Earth from an alien enemy in this futuristic adventure based on the computer game of the... What Would They Compare a WC Game to?
Jumpstart brought to our attention the new Avault preview of Freespace 2. Just like last week's Gamespot preview, it mentions Wing Commander heavily. You can find the Avault preview here.I'll always... Game Based Movies Featured at Videogames.com
Aaron Heston tipped us off about a huge "video games to movies" article at Videogames.com. There's a big feature about Wing Commander. The two biggest faults they come up with were the scene with th... Fan Fiction Central Opens for Business
Patrick Hogan asked us to let everybody know that the new WC Fan Fiction Central is online. There you can find fan made stories and art and participate in a "Fan Fiction Challenge." If you're an asp... The Man Gets Around
Daylight Productions, the home of a number of people who have worked on Wing Commander products in the past, has just added three musical selections composed by George Oldziey, the orchestral composer... The End of the Beginning
The official Secret Ops website has undergone another update! The last pre-SO fiction (an ISDN update) has been added...
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