WC4 Fan Remake Adds Beautiful Capship Shields The WC4 Fan Remake team has a new update to share regarding shields. Wing Commander 4's game engine didn't visually depict shields for capships: it's one of those things your brain either glosses ove... Enhanced WC3 Footage Adds Several Language Options ODVS' enhanced video packs are well known for boosting the visual quality of the movies for WC3, WC4 and Prophecy, but the audio is another undertaking unto itself. Owen made significant strides last... Toolbox Upgrades Reveal WC3 Details The WC Toolbox has been enhanced once again with more extraction support for Wing Commander 3. UnnamedCharacter has been able to pull out images for things like characters that overlay on top of the ... Flying Hornet Plans Released, Prototype Gets Confed Colors AircPiratesNinsei has made excellent progress on his flying Hornet model. For starters, he's released baseline plans on his website for other aspiring builders to put their own version together. The... Gemini Loves Company PC Gamer has launched a new best space games article. For starters, the list is rather long with more than 30 titles, and since it's "space games" rather than "space sims," there's some diverse jumpi... Mysterious Privateer 2 Videos Discovered Here's a little mystery: we've discovered a YouTube account called DigitalVaultThe which contains nothing but three Privateer 2 videos: a trailer and two cutscenes. Here's the kicker: all three videos... Freedom Flight Coming As Baen Ebook!
Baen Books, the publisher behind most of the Wing Commander novels, has announced it is bringing Wing Commander Freedom Flight out as Baen Ebook later this year! A partial preview release is ex... French Dub of WC4 DVD Playthrough Defects to the Border Worlds DocteurJ tipped us off about the second chapter in OldiesGamesTV's high quality playthrough of WC4. Just like chapter one, this episode is spoken in French thanks to a special remixing of the audio f... Comm VDU Images Show Off WC2 Pilot Roster Spurred by some questions about helmet nameplates, Dondragmer conducted some WC2 archeology and posted some neat pictures of the communications VDU pilot heads. The basic pilots, plus a generic man a... More GOG WC Releases on the Horizon? Good Old Games has kicked off a new series of Electronic Arts releases with the recent addition of Syndicate Wars, Clive Barker's Undying and Magic Carpet 2 to their library. Could more Wing Commande... Kamekh Ni'lakh, Ki'ha Rakra Terran'ra The latest game of Wing Commander TacOps Online is under way, and the pilots of the Confederation and Empire are dogfighting in a dense asteroid field. So far they're working through line-of-site, fr... C&C Franchise Still Going Strong The new Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances has just entered open beta. This entry in the C&C series is a free-to-play browser-based RTS MMO that takes place in the brand's "main" universe. On the ... New Mini Models Produced & Painted Mark N found some more awesome Wing Commander miniatures originating from the Starship Combat Forum. These are finished versions of the Studio Bergstrom prototypes that Astro Commander was also check... Kilrathi Shipworks Gear Up RapierDragon's paper Gratha is ready to build! It's an exotic bird that's based off the version pictured with Super Famicom WC1 in Japan. Michelle D did a digital render of the ship some time ago, a... Project Redlime Cancelled?
Starbreeze Studios has announced that one of two games it has been developing for Electronic Arts is being shelved. The developer's two known games were Project Redlime and a title based off ... Kilrathi Capships Invade Invasion Major Payne has posted an interesting update on the status of the Wing Commander Invasion mod. The Fralthi II cruiser has been added to the game and sharp new pictures are included here. Starbase an... Making the Game: Mission F3 Mission F3 is the attack on the Nephilim communications base, which then allows the Midway to recapture Dula VII. These mission notes include an interesting cut concept, that alien patrols in the area... TacOps Scenario 2 Kicks Off
Ironduke has launched the latest Wing Commander TacOps adventure over at Crius.net. This time he's expanded from one packed thread to a cozy subforum. The players have already begun stretchi... L'Eggo My Eggo Happy Belated CIC Easter!
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Podcasting is an art which passed me by, so this is an older story which we missed: IGN's Sci-Fi Brain podcast spent some time discussing the Wing Commander Arena announcement in a show last m... Saga Cuts Down Wait Times The WC Saga team has come up with a solution for fans that were put off by the Prologue's plodding autopilot sequences. Their new engine tweak allows pilots to skip to subsequent nav points after a b... DragonCon Prep Moves Into Full Swing Time is flying faster than ever, and we're now just about five months away from beginning our annual DragonCon gathering. Attendees have started booking their flights, and the hotels are beginning to... Microsoft VP Talks About DA Closure
Eraser from Lancers Reactor tipped us off about a new GDC interview with Microsoft's VP of Interactive Entertainment, Peter Moore. The first question that IGN editors asked the executive was ... Wing Commander Animated Series Gets An Update It's been a year since we've goten an update on Corsair(pilot)'s Animated Series Project. It looked great back then, and Corsair is still working hard on it. He's released three promo shots to let e... Sony PSP Launches In North America The Sony PSP launches today in North America. The handheld game system also sports a variety of multimedia and entertainment features. In addition to high quality gaming, pictures, mp3s and movies c... Holding The Line Chapter 178 Whew, apologies for the delay in posting the latest HTL chapter. It got lost in our news file, which is the biggest it has been for some time. Good times. But without further ado, allow me to introduc... Few Surprises in Favorite Blair Poll Our previous poll asked which incarnation of Christopher Blair you liked the most. Mark Hamill won by a two-thirds majority, with Bluehair (Wing I and II) receiving most of the remaining votes. The ou... Blast From the Past, Part 4 Continuing the Wing Commander 4 trend, today we have the old PC Gamer article from May 1996. The pictures printed in the magazine itself are rather dark, so the scan didn't come out too clearly for t... Ask and Ye Shall Receive So.. when I said, "Boy, it'd be funny if someone photoshopped a Game Boy playing Prophecy into his hands here.." it wasn't actually a request. But Heart of the Tiger decided to meet the challenge.
... DragonCon Airfare & Hotel Discounts DragonCon is only five months away now, and many of the official functions of the DC website are coming together. Of particular note are airfare and hotel rates for DC attendees. Detailed travel inf... WCPolaroids: Maestro (7/12) Party time! No more Maestro pictures after this!
... Invasion Plans Continue WildCat asks that I post the following -- apparently Wing Commander: Invasion is back on track!No doubt many of you have noticed the wc invasion site has been static for many months. Well due to trave... Stupid People Make List, Film at 11 British Gaming magazine PC Gameplay has posted a list of the The 50 Most Influential Games of All Time to their web site. Wing Commander clocks in at #37 -- but is described as "little more than a glo... Lord British's Back (And There's Gonna Be Trouble) GameSpy posted this interview with Origin founder / Ultima creator Richard Garriott -- who implies that he's going to use the recent layoff of the UO2 team to his advantage... we'll find out next mont... Rip it, Rip it Good Regular Chat Zone haunt Zor Prime has created a Wing Commander 4 ripping package -- which should be especially helpful to those having trouble with Ripper. Grab it here (181k), courtesy of BlackLance.... A Telep Chat Coming Soon Peter Telep, author of Wing Commander and Pilgrim Stars, will be participating in a live chat on April 14th at 8:00 pm EST. Get more information here.... Shhh, a Secret File Steal this file! This document, from the now defunct Wing Commander IV PSX site, contains the only basis for a specific date in Wing Commander IV. I thought I'd lost the only copy when my drive crashe... Parlez-Vous Ouch? NoRemorse was kind enough to create a better version of the French edition of Peter Telep's Wing Commander Site. You can see it here.... Congratulations... Athane Runter reports. Are in order for Ser Vester Ilson of Krabbis, Hermes. He's just won the Isaac system annual lottery, netting an incredibly 789,000,000 credits, which instantly catapults him to ...
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