It's Sunday and I heard Starlancer may have gone gold recently, so today I'll take some time here today to cover the recent Starlancer previews that include Wing Commander all at once. These have been sent in by numerous people and seen at ATFW.
It *is* Starlancer week at Daily Radar. They've got some activities coordinated through here and an interview with Erin Roberts here. It's fairly informative. I didn't know Starlancer's targeting thingie is called Blindfire too. What a coincidence. Daily Radar has a Freelancer section here as well.
You'd think CanadaComputers would be a .ca, anyhow, they have a preview too. If the next preview has the best coverage, this one is the most balanced. It has the pros and cons of a number of items in the Starlancer Beta. This one suggests the minimum may be "a Pentium II or III at 300 MHz or better, plus a good 3-D card." That's a bit higher than the general concensus has been lately.
And finally there's an R-POV preview of the game. It's probably the best plain preview of the lot and mainly references the Beta. It hits all the major points and doesn't rely on Wing Commander until the end. You can find it here.
CIS liason Lars Mifsud reports. Yesterday I attended Sheila Nabokov's presentation of the CIS' annual performance review. The findings seemed quite favourable; reported incidents of pirate attack on cargo vessels were down by about 15% on last year, whereas successful CIS patrol intercepts had risen considerably, something Nabokov attributed to the new model Olura patrol craft. On the down side, instances of murder were up, as was black market activity, although more smugglers were apprehended last year than ever before. Nabokov's plans for the next year included expanding the CIS' base of operations by establishing more headquarters and focusing on increased recruitment.
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