2007.345 (December 11, 2007)

Fare Thee Well, GameTap

It's official: GameTap will remove Wing Commander I, II and IV from their service at some point today. The CIC staff would like to formally apologize to anyone who paid for the service beyond today believing they would be able to play Wing Commander. We genuinely believed that GameTap would offer an exciting new way for both old fans and new players to experience Wing Commander. This is a sad cap for what has otherwise been a universally excellent year for Wing Commander fans. You can remember the good times with our memorial retrospective archive, available here. Here's to hoping that another service licenses Electronic Arts' game catalog in the near future - they'll have my dollars.

The Art of Wing Commander Arena - Part Thirty-Eight

This is the last of the 'miscellaneous' images. Next up, we'll be looking at environments! This painting is another attempt to understand Wing Commander. This time, it's a take on the 'cinematic' style of the games, with an in-flight scene similar to those in Wing Commander II.

This is part of a series of beautiful Wing Commander Arena concept images graciously provided by Gaia Industries. You can find the original article here. You can thank the guys at Gaia by picking up Street Trace NYC on Xbox Live Arcade!