Nominations Time Again

With the end of the year less than six weeks away now, it's time to start thinking about our Web Site of the Year and Fan Project of the Year contests for 2004. The only way to ensure that your favorite effort to excite the WC community gets through to the final voting is to nominate your choice of fan site and/or project.

The nominated site and/or project (you may choose one in each category) must have been active within the past three months. Past winners may be viewed in our archives: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.

The final winners and runners up in each category will receive the appropriate fancy graphic once we've persuaded Kris to make them. So nominate now!

Privateer 2 Developers Warthog Bought Out

When Privateer 2 was developed it was at EA's Manchester division, but shortly afterwards it was closed prompting the former staff to form Warthog. The most notable of Warthog's games within the space sim community is of course Starlancer. Now BBC News (see bottom of page) reports that the company has been bought out by US based company Tiger Telematics in exchange for $1.13 millon, and 500,000 shares in the Tiger company. Together this is worth a reported $8,1 million, which doesn't sound like a bad deal at all. You can read a bit more at the bottom of this page.