Our splash screen competition is drawing to a close, all entries must be sent by Friday in order to be taken into consideration as we have already received enough to offer a good choice. On Saturday the poll will be altered so that you can decide on your favourite splash screen and we will use the winner. The only problem that we have not been able to find a way around is the disappearance of MK84 who was rendering the CIC room for the BWS Dauntless so once again we must ask for the help of the fans. What we need is someone to create one room for the Dauntless, it could be 3D Rendered, hand-drawn etc, the only requirements are that it is 640*480, color, contains a door for entering the briefing and 4 computer panels. The Dauntless is a border world ship, extremely old and Bengal class so these factors should be taken into account. If you feel you can help e-mail us here, this is very important and could affect the release date.
"From the recent sci-fi flick, Wing Commander, comes this cool poster depicting the computer-generated battlecruiser, Tiger Claw carrier in an explosive battle scene with the evil alien Kilrathi! (????/SPT120)Poster, 24x36, FC... $19.95"
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 27, 1999 - Electronic Arts™ (Nasdaq:ERTS), the world’s largest interactive entertainment software company, today announced it has become the first company to receive certification under a new online privacy program designed to address and allay consumer concerns about the privacy of personal information submitted on the Internet. The new program, ESRB Privacy Online, is designed to ensure that its participants meet or exceed the requirements under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and the Federal Trade Commission and Interactive Digital Software Association guidelines for online privacy protection.You can read the rest of the press released here.
You are receiving this e-mail because you have ordered a Pilgrim Cross Knife. We have received word from United Cutlery that they will not be receiving their next shipment of these knives until August 3rd. We, of course, will not be receiving them until a few days after that, but will ship all active orders within 24 hours of receipt of our shipment from United Cutlery.That's nice of them, although I somehow doubt that such a minor delay would sway many WC fans. Be sure to email them if you've ordered a cross and haven't gotten it yet. The address is pilgrimcross@tuscanytrading.com.Since it has been our experience in the past that such delays result in a loss of interest among customers, we are cancelling all outstanding orders for Pilgrim Cross Knives unless you notify us that you would like to keep your order active. If you decide to keep your order active, please be sure to include your name when responding to this e-mail.
Both we and United Cutlery regret the delay.
Donn
Tuscany Trading Co.
We are currently holding a competition for the design of our splash screen, we have 3 so far and will be posting them for judging as soon as we have collected enough. We would really like to get at least 10 entries. All entries should be 640*480 bitmaps with a logo and at least one fighter. Also Taliburn is back so assuming we get the voice overs completed we should have all missions, cutscenes and ICIS briefings for episode 1 finsihed for our August 10th deadline.
Infogrames may be headed to an amusement park near you as it has signed a deal with high-tech entertainment attraction developer, Iwerks Entertainment, Inc. The agreement between the two companies will allow the development of ride simulations, theme park attractions, and large format films - the first such attraction will be a 3D simulation film based on Independence War.In the attraction, audiences will take part in the story as they experience the actions of the Navy commander as he battles against angry colonists who are fighting for independence from the Earth.
Privateer 3 Re tooledWhile rumors on the Net suggest Origin's Privateer 3 has been completely scrapped, the reality is that it is being massively revamped.
July 20, 1999
The news of a major revamping is something of a mixed blessing to Privateer fans. On the one hand, the game is not canceled (as many had previously thought), but on the other, Origin is no longer willing to commit to a release date for the game.
Said a spokes person for Origin: "All developers have to constantly re-evaluate their products. The team is going to be changing a lot of things in the game."
Privateer 3 was originally slated for release this fall.
Update: the movie name is Wing Commander Incursion.At the moment it looks to be split into 2 or 3 parts and each part will be split up to make uploading and downloading easier.
The basic story has it that Angel has to get to Kilrah for WC3 and myself and B.R@DIU$, my partner in this, tell how she gets there. We have tried to have a story to this and not just make it a 3D animation show, there's a part were a pilot has his life flash before his eyes as a Kilrathi missile impacts his arrow, just as an example.
Within 3 - 4 weeks we wish to upload to www.wcnews.com a trailer that we are putting together, however this is with your permission of course as it look to be about 50 megs (we are trying to decrease this with different compression codecs in the movie).
Also anyone wishing to do some sound FX voices for the movie, e-mail me first with a short sound of your voice about 5 spec.
Thanks, I will also be uploading some tasty pics soon.
And for all those people who e-mailed saying that they hoped the movie would maintain the look from the arrow flyby -- we did better!
Double Dragon - 15.8%
Mortal Kombat - 7.1%
Street Fighter - 21.6%
Super Mario Brothers - 27.6%
Wing Commander - 11.5%
Other - 1.9%
Haven't seen any of them - 14.5%
Unknown Enemy episode 1 now looks set for a release date of August 10th, as I will not be here from August 13th until August 25th it is important that we meet this date as I will be uploading the files so we need an artist to create the new HUD. While I am gone the project will continue under the supervision of Asterix and in anticipation of the upcoming episodes I thought that now would be a good time to ask for help in the following areas:-Ship Creation: Episode one uses only conversions most of which have already been done however the later missions involve a new Black Lance fighter, 2 new Kilrathi fighters and a new Kilrathi capital ship also the models for conversions from WC1+2 are required as these ships were 2D
ICIS briefing & Mission Creation: We have only 4 people currently working on these two points, one of whom is will not begin working for one week, due to the large number of missions it would be helpful if we could get some more people working on these so that the later episodes can be released more quickly.
Also we will have a new poll as soon as the sever is back up so please vote
Steve Dauterman goes to Electronic ArtsEA Australia, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts(tm) (Nasdaq:ERTS), the world's largest interactive entertainment software company, today announced the appointment of LucasArts industry veteran Steve Dauterman as General Manager of Studio Asia Pacific to head a new development studio located in Australia.
Dauterman, formerly Director of Development for LucasArts in San Rafael, Calif., had been with the Lucas group for ten years, initially as Financial Analyst for Lucasfilm before moving across to LucasArts in 1992.
Since working at LucasArts he has overseen the development of such worldwide hits as "X-Wing," "Rebel Assault," "Dark Forces/JediKnight," "Shadows of the Empire," "Rogue Squadron," Monkey Island," "GrimFandango," "Full Throttle" and the newly completed PC and console versions of the latest Lucasfilm blockbuster "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace(tm)".
Dauterman will relocate to the Gold Coast in Australia in mid September to manage the formation of EA's newest studio, named Studio Asia-Pacific, which will focus on developing games for the Australian, Asian and world markets.
Steve Dauterman said of his decision to change countries and work with Electronic Arts (EA), "The decision to leave LucasArts was definitely a difficult one for me personally, but the challenge to build a new studio and live in Australia is a unique opportunity I could not pass up. I am thrilled to join the team at EA Asia Pacific. My goal is to bring world-class talent to the Studio and build products that are both creative and innovative in the worldwide marketplace."
We are creating a Wing Commander based strategy game. It is supposed to be a mix between Red Alert (in space), Privateer, Ascendancy and Elite. This will be a strategy game where you can command a fleet. You can build stations, cap-ships and fighters. More ways to make money, like transport troops for other players/cooperations (single play), build cap-ships/fighters/weapons and more to sell it to other players, or play as merchant. You will have full freedom and more importantly, it supports online play. It's like an rpg.What we need is a lot of people. For programming, graphic editing, sound editing and every thing that involves creating a game. If you are interested please check the site here.
I have some news here about the voices in the game. As you may know we are going to have speech for each pilot for this game. The other characters will have their own voices as well. But what we need right now is people choosing the characters and making the voices. What better place than the CIC when you need a lot of people? :)People can visit the characters list and pick one here.
Once they select a character they have to go click on "stats" (is on that same page) or go here.
There they will have the information they need to check if that character is free. Once they have the character they can start making the voice. The type of wav and where to send the file is on the "stats" page.
And on the site, I see that it says that there are posters in cinemas, but that's not true.. 'de Megasfestatie' is an event for a week where's also a cinema. But it's not a cinema for the whole year.
In a new story based on the hit movie, "Tiger Claw" and crew are caught in the middle of a deadly rebellion, led by rogue Pilgrims who want to cleanse the universe and reseed it with perfect humans. Choosing sides isn't easy, especially when your former friends are more ruthless than the aliens.
Origin Systems is moving forward with its strategy of solely developing Internet-only worlds. The success of Ultima Online has proven that there is massive potential in the area of Internet entertainment. In order to expedite this transition, Origin today announced it has canceled Jane's A-10 Warthog, a game that was in development at the company's Austin, Texas studio.Origin plans to relocate the members of the team to the many opportunities within both Origin and its parent company, Electronic Arts. Andy Hollis, an Origin vice president and executive producer of the cancelled project, plans to remain with the EA family and is currently considering a variety of opportunities within the organization.
The move is an extension of Origin's shift of strategy, changing lanes from a boxed-game producer to an online games producer. This is not to say that Origin won't be doing boxed games (or any more Jane's games, for that matter), but this shift requires tangible resources - employees - and Origin wants to get started now, rather than later.
Oops,
I wrote the piece for PCXL and I think that I inappropriately gave it the Wing Commander title.BTW I saw the game in action twice, and hands-down it is the best looking game I have ever seen. The in-game were as pretty as most CG that you see today. And the ships were beyond anything I imagined possible. When I do play the game, I will probably spend most of my time just looking around out the scenery..it's magnificent.
Whether or not it still looks so groundbreaking when it hits stores two years from now is a question we will have to wait to answer.
A bunch of people have noticed things in the Wing Commander Movie... some of 'em have been said before, but here's what's been discovered for those who are newly familiar with the film. Thanks to Rob Morton, Minh Doan and Boss for pointing these out! If you've found something else, let me know!
Chris Roberts' Cameo: In Chapter 25 a Concordia pilot in a Broadsword rescues Blair after he runs out of fuel. The pilot is none other than director Chris Roberts, who's had cameos in Wing III and IV as well.
Tolwyn Misspelling: During Tolwyn's briefing for Sansky his name flashes by the screen spelled 'Towlyn'. Furthermore, the closed captioning spells it the same way... although the DVD captions spell it correctly, as do the closing credits. This is very remeniscent of the first several episodes of Wing Commander Academy -- which spelled Tolwyn's name several different ways! Tallwood, for example.
The PAD: When the camera goes from outside Pegasus Station into the Pegasus Station CIC, it passes a computer that locks onto something. The locking sound is the sound made by the PAD in Privateer 2: The Darkening.
Smegmelon is a close friend of mine and he told me about using some 3D glasses on some movies that weren't meant to be 3D. Star Trek Generations and SW Episode one are great examples of films that weren't designed to be 3D but are. Wing Commander is one of the best films to date to show this quality. The best example is the scene when you first see the Kilrathi ConCom ship, while Blair and Angel are hiding in the asteroids. The forward thrust fins of the ship stick out quite well from the screen. Of course the film was designed for these attributes so some times the dimension effects come off looking kind of like the look of a Viewmaster, but in every scene is does create a better defined division between foreground objects and the background. Now what's that you say, you don't have any 3D glasses? That's fine too, just call 1-800-232-0324 and they should be able to hook you up with some of the right kind of glasses, the right lense needs to be light green and the left needs to be dark purple. When you start the movie watch the previews with the glasses on so your eyes have a chance to get used to the glasses, your left eye is supposed to dilate a little but it won't damage your vision. Have fun with it.
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Well, I went against all odds and grabbed a copy of Wing Commander DVD from Circuit City today (and a shout out to my pal Samcat for making that possible). Here's my review...
Good: The video quality is far and away superior to that of the VHS version -- in particular, the CGI sequences look incredible. The interactive menus (by B1 Media are excellent! They're very animated -- very cool. The DVD's paper insert includes (in addition to the usual cast list) small cast bios (although Paladin's photo is wrong -- they used Gerald instead!).
Bad: At a list price of $34, this is an expensive disc... and although I wasn't expecting them, it would have been wonderful to have the extra scenes thrown in. That would have made the price more than worth it, and have given us a chance to decide whether or not it was confusing. Maybe if it sells well enough we'll see a special edition...
It's time to whip out your joystick and prepare for some raunchy action once again as... hold on, I think that sentence might have some innuendo if you take it the wrong way. Ok, I'll try again. It's time to plug in your joystick and load up an old copy of Wing Commander 2, because 3DGN's newest Look Back talks about just that. Warning, this article may make you wish to play the game again.You can find the somewhat lengthy article here.
Greetings Everyone. Well we've all waited a long time and there has been no Privateer 3. Now with Origin's announcement that they will be focusing more on multiplayer games a new single player Privateer is looking very unlikely. So it comes to us, the Wing Commander fans, this page is dedicated to the production of a fan made Privateer game. Privateer: Aftermath. This game will be distributed freely over the internet at absolutely no cost. The game is currently in the early stages and anyone with any ideas please e-mail me with them, please title the e-mail "Aftermath Ideas". Anyone interest in joining the project please e-mail me and title the e-mail "Interested In Joining The Team".Send all your e-mails to Equalizer@collegeclub.com
And for more info go to http://confederation.simplenet.com/Aftermath/
In 655 years, space adventures of a team of shock confronted with an unpleasant species of small beasts, the Kilrathi, on corridors of navigation in the hyperspace, trapped as an underwood in period of the hunting and, worst undoubtedly, with a production whose budget would make laugh many credit institutions. This film is before intended for all those, rather young, who liked the video game which it takes as a starting point. One would expect to find the shiver sympathetic nerve of the pleasure of playing ... Beautiful challenge when one knows the degrees of requirement which testifies this public.Unfortunately, as for the game, it is very difficult not to think of some other adventures cosmic. (like Star Wars).
Special effects also suffer from an obvious lack of means. And we feel that the ellipses are there as much to circumvent a scene in CGI, that a budget which one could describe as 0. And all this would be still excusable without this extremely debatable esthetics néo archaic and a realization where each shock confere with the camera a extatic stability of power pick. Regret
In 2 words: which is the common point between the space vacuum, a black hole and the script of this film?
0 / 4 stars
ONE BIG BLACK HOLEWARNING: Now the video-game "Wing Commander" has become a movie.
By: Anders Grønneberg
Friday 25th. June 1999 13:25Watching this american science fiction crap is like being bombed back to the stoneage. The non-plot from the 27th century is set in 27-th century spaceships loaded with deathbringing missiles and actors without manuscripts. Young space pilots of both sex'es saves the world from the nasty and murderish Kilrathies {ndash} and wins eachothers hearts. If the earth ever gets invaded by evilness, the relief is that the evilness altso destroys all the crappy movie production.
Dice: 1/6
Attached is a picture of Peter Telep from the book signing in Winter Park, Fl. we were late getting there in that we hit bad weather along the interstate (a thunderstorm and it was raining cats (sorry Kilrathis) and dogs. When then got lost in Winter Park. We stopped and called ahead and asked how long Peter would be there and he was gracious enough to wait! I had to get a few books signed. Not only was he signing the WC books but Descent one too. I got both titles signed. He talked with us for about thirty minutes. We talked about books, educational matters (trying to convince him to teach a writer's course on the internet for us fan fic types, his research for war scenarios, his Sept book). Oh yes, he spoke VERY HIGHLY of you and the help you gave him with background material (Hmm...therein lies a tale Loaf) He is looking for those war scenarioes for his class to research. He is teaching a class "War in Literature" and is giving his students, as a project, the assignment to find examples in literature. Also spoke with his web meister, who works for microsoft. He was telling me that everything in the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" is true. We also discussed Windows 98, 2000, and 2002.He also sent a picture...All and all it was a great trip. We are to keep in touch. He even did a special autographed one for my BL club that I scanned and had posted to the site.
Hey, I got my copy of the WC Movie on CD. It came from Indonesia and was on two recordable CD's. I haven't had a chance to watch the entire thing yet, but it looks like somebody brought a video camera into the theatre and taped it that way because the edges of the movie are cut off. It also has subtitles in some foreign language, I'm assuming it is whatever language they speak in Indonesia.
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