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RJC Fondly Remembers FMV WC Games
Here's a double shot of retro for your 'spective! These come from the Rowan J Coleman channel on YouTube, which has more than 120,000 subscribers, so we're happy to see such a wide audience get a pee... Happy Birthday Wing Commander Arena!
We’d like to spend time in today’s news taking a moment to recognize Wing Commander Arena’s belated 15th birthday! We reached the milestone on Monday, but the unfortunate passing of the legendary Davi... Onward to Victory
Mac's Lore has an exciting new video in their series on Wing Commander history. Their latest clip covers covers the exploits of the TCS Victory with an emphasis on the events that concluded the Kilra... Make a Model Morningstar
LYP Studios has put together a pretty neat Morningstar fighter for the Thingiverse 3D printing website. At nearly 15 inches long, it's a monster in the model fighter world and the large size allows f... Countdown to Party Time - Three Weeks To Go!
Time ticks ever forward, and we're quickly speeding towards the CIC's 21st Birthday! We're now three weeks away from the big party. It's easy to join the fun in #Wingnut on the CIC's Discord Server.... Prowler Screenshots Show Off Robot Battles
Anatoly Shashkin posted some pretty nifty preview images of the canceled Origin game, Prowler. This was a mech combat game that some of the Super Wing Commander team worked on in the mid '90s. It ne... Wing Commander Music Kickstarter Relaunched - With Extras!
George Oldziey is back for a third attempt at creating a second album of reorchestrated music from Wing Commander 3, 4 & Prophecy. He's learned some good lessons from the last two trips out, and this... Wing Commander Running On More Micro PCs
Allan Pead took this photo of Wing Commander 3 running on a LattePanda micro computer. Like with the Raspberry Pi, newer and better low-cost units continue to be developed, and it's great to see fans... Bearcat Gets Unreal Makeover
ScoobyDoo has made big progress importing his new Bearcat fighter into the Unreal 4 engine. In this new environment, he's been able to add tons of detail to the cockpit, hull surface and landing gear... Twitch Stream Explorers Original Wing Commander
Whistler reports that BadNewsBaron is in the process of broadcasting a play-through of Wing Commander 1. The Baron is known for live streaming Star Citizen footage on Twitch, and he's turning back th... Two Weeks Until the Birthday Party!
The CIC's 15th Birthday Party is now just two 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/Australia). Since the party i... Two Weeks Until Party Time!
The CIC Birthday Party is just two weeks away! We've picked up the pace of our preparations, and hopefully your excitement meter is rising too. Right now, CIC staff members are busily putting togeth... Two Weeks To Go!
We're now just two weeks away from the CIC's 13th Birthday! We hope to see you in #Wingnut on August 10 to celebrate. Newcomers can use the easy Java app and plan to stop by at 7:00 PM Eastern US (a... Taking the Party IRL
...we'll be in Texas for the birthday this year! Team CIC is packing up in a week or so to head down and celebrate in person on August 10, for the first time. All the details aren't set yet, but if ... Countdown: Two Weeks!
We're now less than two weeks away from the CIC's 12th Birthday! In addition to celebrating a dozen years at wcnews.com, we're also pumped up about the Wing Commander series' 20th anniversary this ye... Starcraft 2 Released
The long-awaited Starcraft 2 was released last night to legions of eager PC gamers. With nearly 12 years since the original game and its expansion, SC fans have quite a bit of patience in common with... Ascii Sector
Last week's release of the Privateer: Ascii Sector game had a serious bug in it, so Chris Knudsen has pushed out a fresh build. This new version addresses problems with cargo transport missions and a ... Making the Game: Comms Complete
Today's Excel chart shows, naturally, more comms. More specifically, it shows the percent of chance a particular 'type' of message should play after any event. Ie, what is the chance a random comm sho... Confed's Last Best Hope
Invisible fighters, bioweapons and the Excalibur prototype all make an appearance this week as the Victory pushes into the Tamayo and Locanda systems. Apart from a run-in with Skipper missiles, last w... Making the Game - Part 83
The 'springboards' section of the Wing Commander Prophecy bible seems to be a list of lists - what the player can do, when different ships appear, what types of weapons need to be developed further. T... UPDATE: Wing Commander Themes Available!
Goodbye, Battlestations Midway pin-up girls, hello Kilrathi fighters -- Microsoft has released two Wing Commander Arena Xbox 360 themes on Live Marketplace! A "Terran Theme" and a "Kilrathi Theme" are... Arena Review Revue
The Wing Commander Arena reviews continue to roll in! Here's three more, following the two posted yesterday. The best news is from XBL Radio, who was incredibly positive about the game:
If you are ... On the Polaris Roads Again
I'll bet you thought the days of seeing new Wing Commander Arena trailers were over... well, you're dead wrong! GameVideos has posted a three and a half minute video of the game's single player melee ... All Confed Models Integrated Into Homeworld Mod
The final major model for the Confederation faction in Aaron Thomas' WC4 Homeworld 2 mod is now an actual structure in the game. It will get an additional scaffolding/construction attachment so it ca... There's A Place For Everybody
Our new poll asks fans to pick an organization that best represents them. Technology-using technophobes can vote for the Retros in the first option. Kilrathi enthusiasts have the Cult of Siv... Party Count Down: Two Weeks To Go
Only two short weeks remain before the CIC's Seventh Birthday Party. The event always sneaks up on us quickly, and people are now scrambling to get things ready. It's been a beautiful summer for mos... Electronic Arts Announced Quarterly Results
EA has announced their quarterly performance results for the period that ended on June 30, 2005. They earned $365 million, which was a 16% decline over last year at this time. This resulted in a $58... WC X-Type Still In Progress
Pedro sent us another screenshot to let us know that his R-Type inspired Wing Commander shooter is still in development. The original was a Java test program, but he has mostly transferred the game t... Trivia Week 4 Begins
There are just two more weeks left in our summer trivia game. Week 4 begins today and the final week starts next week. Here are the new questions. Good luck!
Question 7: Which race of creatures ... EA Quarterly Profits Up
Electronic Arts has announced its results for fiscal Q1 2005. They had three new titles sell a million copies, and the slightly older Need For Speed Underground recorded its seven millionth sale. Q2... Two Weeks Until Party Time!
Time flies when you're going crazy trying to get ready. We're now just fourteen days from the CIC's Fifth Birthday. This time I'm happy to report that a number of the community's fan projects and gr... One Step Closer to Canadian Prophecy Advance
K1nG Gr4H4m has noticed that the Canadian Future Shop has begun listing Prophecy Advance here. This is one of the first listings of the game at a Canadian retailers, so perhaps there's hope for them ... New Poll, Old Results
Many of you have already noticed we've switched the polls. We've got a fun one this time that asks which unconventional weapon is your favorite. This is a broad category that picks out a few of the ... Third Highest Score in PC Gamer History
PC Gamer's 100th Anniversary issue includes a list of the highest rated games in their history. Wing Commander 3 ties for third place.Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - 98%Half-Life - 97%Descent - 96%Links ... High Score!
High Score! The Illustrated History of Electronic Games is a new book detailing more than 30 years of computer game history. Since WC has been so influential, it gets it's own two page spread! Also of... Free as a Space 2
15th Rampage has kindly sent us the URL for his FreeSpace 2 TC, Black Lance. You can read all about it at scorpius.spaceports.com/~wcbl/. The team plans to create three chapters of ten missions each, ... New Mailbag
That's right, it's time for another one of our bi-annual monthly mailbags! Laugh, cry and be terrified at how stupid some people are right along with us! Check it out here... or, well, I'LL RIP YUOR A... Contest Delayed
Due to popular demand (you all forgot to make your lists!), the Wing Commander names contest has been extended... until August 5th! You've got all that time to list as many Wing Commander characters a... A Day in the LOAF
I'm off to some other state for the weekend (Penn-something, the one with the chocolate), so I'm leaving the news on autopilot... but check back for the usual weekend fair, along with pictures of a sh... From: CIS Headquarters, Special Ops. Div.
CIS Intelligence has learned of a planned attack on one of our Munitions Depots. Currently the majority of CIS forces are occupied elsewhere. We request your assistance in the defence of this facility...
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