Time To Vote For Sites Of The Year

We've narrowed it down to seven choices for Fan Site and Fan Project of the year. Some sites received nominations in both categories, and unfortunately some very nice sites did not make it to this list. Everyone who maintains a Wing Commander site these days is doing the community a service, but for our purposes here we wanted to keep things manageable. And the nominees are..

At Least You Don't Need To Upgrade Soon

While Wolfenstein 3-D was a monster hit and firmly established id as a player in the action gaming genre, it was Doom that annihilated everything that came before it and set the standard for years to come. Consumers would race to upgrade their PCs or purchase new ones just to be able to play it one of the few titles other than Wing Commander and 7th Guest to do so.

Old GameSpot Poll Results

During the Fourth Birthday shuffle of August we reported on GameSpot's poll, but never presented the results. This is as close to a final count as we were able to get.

"Which of these classic game series would you most like to see revived?
The Ancient Art of War 202 (3%)
Descent 526 (9%)
Jagged Alliance 347 (6%)
King´s Quest 886 (15%)
Star Control 423 (7%)
Wing Commander 1391 (24%)
X-COM 1187 (21%)
Other 822 (14%)

LOAF's Off To Austin

LOAF's taking a quick flight down to Austin right after the Two Towers premiere to check out Freelancer for the next few days. Hopefully he'll be back with lots of cool pictures later this week. And who knows what else he might find?