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Yeah, things like the game's art assets are relatively extractable and available for something like this potentially, but I see the most likely path being to leverage some next generation form of Xbox 360 emulation that emerges.

Playing with things like volume for narration could be interesting, but one of the beautiful things about this mod is it doesn't just add voiceovers - it adds the authentic original voiceovers from one official version of the game to another. That's really neat.

Yeah, Quarto did a good job of summarizing the situation, but it can't be overstated how different the digital gaming landscape was. "Just make your downloadable game available on every major platform" wasn't a concept that existed. Microsoft pioneered the idea of small downloadable games like...

Also the Xbox 360 was good enough to allow for USB storage. Without any hacking/modding, you can stick a thumb drive into a 360 and make as many copies of Arena as you'd like just in case. These in turn can be copied back onto a 360 and used to make more backups, etc...

And that's why they're on this poll! I don't actually expect them to get votes, but if they make people remember that there were in fact cloaking ships in Arena, then that's success. Some people will dig a layer deeper and learn about the anti-cloak sonar and so on, which is great. As the...

We are off and running well into the 2024 now, so it's time to conclude our annual new year's poll. We've swapped in a new one about stealth fighters in Wing Commander. The question this time asks which craft you think sowed the most chaos, did the most damage and wreaked the most havoc over...

I don't have any to sell, but there was at least a Prophecy dev team patch out there. Also some Prophecy squadron patches for good measure:

Amazon.com has lowered its price for the upcoming Wing Commander Academy DVD set from $22.49 to $19.99. Fans who preordered at the higher price should be able to log into their account and verify that the "Pre-order Price Guarantee" has already adjusted their order. Amazon also offers special...

Check out this awesome Seahawk model that LOAF recently got 3D printed. The CIC staff love things like this, but none of us have the hardware or technical knowledge to make these ourselves. Fortunately, that's where the cottage industry of make-to-order prints comes in! Some sources can seem...

As January is already coming to a close, we're happy to announce the winners to our annual fan project of the year event! To start things off, we've got two fantastic projects that we are co-awarding Fan Project of the Year this time around. [/url] The first is Wing Loader, which had a...

The downloadable files and instructions to install are at https://www.wcnews.com/news/2021/06/06/fan-hack-adds-invisible-cockpits-to-privateer

Yeah, you used to have to go to SecretOps.com to register for the game before you could start it up. Part of the registration asked for your experience and then that chose the default difficulty level you started at. There is a ton about the Secret Ops experience that is somewhat lost to...

January continues to afterburner along - as does our annual Fan Project of the Year contest voting period! If you missed it last week, there's still time to get your vote in. Check out the nominees below and cast your ballot towards the project you were most impressed by in 2023! First...

Yeah, they could cause some trouble for a bootleg seller advertising their bricks as LEGO (which they don't), but we are also within our rights to misname the offending bricks we bought from someone else as "bootleg Legos."

It may be true it was a distraction, but I thought that window was very cool!

January is quickly getting away from us, so it's time to pull together the nominees for our 2023 Fan Project of the Year awards! As always, we've got some fabulous options, so let's jump to it! First up, in alphabetical order, are the series of Ambiance videos by Scribbler. This isn't the...

I'm short on time today, so here's a couple of Wing Commander shorts for you! They caught my eye because the videos below depict an Xperia Play (originally conceived as the Sony Ericsson "PlayStation Phone") running SNES Wing Commander and The Secret Missions. At first I wondered if there was...

LOAF has been doing some intense research of peculiar quirks and rare occurrences built into Wing Commander 4. He's discovering that there are a number of exotic things you can trigger by taking very specific actions. For example, if you fly the mission in the Speradon System to capture the...

We now know why the Wing Commander series was left out of GOG's big annual winter sale... because it was being saved for the Classic Winter Sale! A whole host of games from a similar era are now on sale, especially from Origin and EA. You can complete your digital collection for less than $12...

IronWolf1970 recently posted this fun little anecdote from the set of Wing Commander IV. The scale of the WC4 film shoot is vast: real sets, tons of extras and lots of practical effects. However, coming hot on the heels of WC3, it often seems like the earlier game got a lot more press and...