BREAKING NEWS: Wing Commander Vinyl Campaign Still Imminent Back in February, we reported on a teaser post from Supercade announcing an upcoming crowd funding campaign to release an LP (vinyl record) of George Oldziey's Wing Commander Orchestral Recording Proj... Super Famicom Manual Includes Special Halcyon Welcome Goofing around with image translators I discovered that the Super Famicom Wing Commander manual has a section where Colonel Halcyon welcomes you aboard. Also how crazy is the future?
... Spanish Translation Test Provides Privateer Proof of Concept L@Zar0 has a new update on his Spanish Wing Commander translations. This time it's a proof of concept for Wing Commander Privateer. He's managed to get the audio to play while overlaying subtitles, ... Check out the Japanese PSX Combat Booklet EmuMusicFan recently added a Japanese copy of Wing Commander 3 for the Playstation to his collection. This version has some absolutely gorgeous documentation that I don't think we've posted before, s... Wing Commander Nook Complete We just finished a space-themed reading nook for the kiddos, and that gave us a great opportunity to display a piece of Wing Commander art. Mike Winterbauer's slick metal print of the WC1 SNES box ar... WC3 Reviewer Has Lots To Say About Doors It's Friday, so listening to some grumpy gripes seems like a fitting end to a rough week. Gray Ghosts Old Grizzled Gamers has written a quasi-review of Wing Commander 3, and as you might expect, they... Wing Commander Meme of the Day: 10 Guy
... New Screenshot Found A new screenshot from the long-lost SNES port of Wing Commander 2 has been discovered! Like previous discoveries, this screenshot appeared in 1995 gaming magazine... but it is not attached to a review... Tweak Guides Help Maximize The Wing Commander Experience In addition to his guide to Wing Commander 3, PhilsComputerLab has published helpful "tweak guides" for Wing Commanders 1 and 2 as well as Privateer. GOG does a good job of preconfiguring their games... Homeworld WC Mod Gets Even Bigger
L.I.F. has big news for players of his WC mod for Homeworld Remastered. He's figured out how to remove the size limitation on ships, which will significantly boost the scale of his majestic f... Wing Commander Academy Translated into Arabic!? AD found a very odd translation of the Wing Commander Academy television series being advertised on YouTube. "Star Dima" appears to have converted the show into Arabic - Wing Commander logo and all. ... Ultima Codex Interviews Serpent Isle Lead Ultima Codex has conducted an interview with Bill Armintrout, a former Origin vet who worked on Ultima VII Part 2, Pacific Strike and Bioforge among other games. The conversation starts with a discus... Tiger's Claw Gets Its Engines Malcolm Reynolds has completed the engines on his Tiger's Claw model and is now entering the final stretch. These new shots show how the propulsion system has gone from one partial tube to seven larg... Big Bug Guns Add to Nephilim Power Astro Commander has some bigger Nephilim baddies to share with everyone this week. The Hydra cruiser and Kraken "ship killer" complement the existing fleet of corvettes, destroyers and wormhole gates... Prelude Part 9 Now Playing Part 9 of Frontier - Prelude to Darkness is out! This chapter is lighter on the combat, but does more to advance the story. Fans who are eager for more space battles won't have long to wait though. ... UO Team Pushes Good Versus Evil
The Mythic dev team that maintains Ultima Online posted a small update to shed some light on how they continue to push where the background story goes after more than a dozen years. Check it ... Concordia Down Further Klavs' recent Concordia wallpaper was a big hit last year, but that wasn't his only scene featuring this famous Confederation class dreadnought over Vespus. The image below shows the ship tumbling fu... Making the Game: Mission SS3 Mission SS4 teaches the player to fly the Panther. There are a few interesting references in the dialogue - especially to the Panther's particular role (on escort carriers) and the fact that she carri... Vampire State Building Sometimes we just need to sit back and look at what's around us... like this awesome background-quality Wing Commander Prophecy image found at Origin-artist Mark Vearrier's portfolio website. There's ... Get Your Game On
Blitz wanted to share a new auction site with people who might be searching for Wing Commander games. Chase the Chuck Wagon is dedicated to cheaper listings of video games in general. There ... Razor's Edge Following on the footsteps of the recent Centurion easter egg, long-time contributor AD has another Arena ship note: the EA Arcade features clip art of a fighter that looks like Wing Commander IV's Ra... Talon's Tip Space Pirate has a new update to his 'Centurion vs. Pirates' movie project. He recently released a Centurion blueprint... so, naturally, a Talon image was next! Check out the cool new pirate logo:
... Correction: Googly Eyed Sea Monsters It has come to our attention that an article posted on October 12th, 2005 inadvertently referred to the unusual creatures in Wing Commander Academy's Word of Honor as "googly eyed sea monsters". The p... Eldred Scrolls Here's one we missed from a few weeks back: Anime New World Order has conducted a lengthy audio interview with Tim Eldred, whose credits include character designs and storyboards for Wing Commander Ac... For Pete's Sake: Last Chance to Enter! The clock is about to strike midnight, Standoff fans: April 28th is the last day to submit a score for PopsiclePete's gauntlet contest. Here's the man himself:
April 28th is coming, Cardinal's the ... That's Just Super BradMick reports that the latest version of the FreeDO emulator is capable of running the 3DO version of Super Wing Commander! There are still some problems: Since 3DO BIOS files are not available as ... Concordias in Harmony Cadet Tolwyn flew missions off the Concordia-class TCS Concordia during the McAuliffe Ambush... it blew up, but twenty years later Tolwyn was a Commodore commanding a battlegroup onboard another Conco... Pictures Back From LOAF's Austin Visit A few weeks back LOAF visited Origin in Austin for the last time. Here are some beautiful pictures of the building where so much great Wing Commander stuff was created. Don't be too sad though, the ... The Broken Hellcat Lives On Tolwyn reminded us about an old Hellcat that tangled with some Ekapshi fighters last year. If you're missing something in your Wallpaper collection, this one's formatted for 1024x768.
The ... SWC Ship of the Day: Dralthi Day four of Super Wing Commander Ship of the Day -- hey, that's just ripping off the... oh, right.
... WCA Backup There's apparently been some trouble downloading the current episode of Wing Commander Academy -- until Tye figures out what's wrong, you can grab it here.... Looking Back at a Memorable Classic Federation HQ looks back at Wing Commander Privateer. A little snippet from the very positive article:However, the game did have a linear mission-based story built-in. In bars you would be able to pic... It May be a Wing Commander Clone That's what Electric Playground fears, according to their Starlancer preview. They mention Chris and Erin Roberts' previous games of course...Erin Roberts is no stranger to the arena of space combat. ... All-Stars do it Again Sports correspondent Doug Rostrum reports. The legendary Karatikus All-Stars Basketball team have once again clinched all four titles in the inter-system championships. This season they won every sing...
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