Save Archive: Wing Commander IV We've got a new project intended to help out Wing Commander fans in 2024: save game archives that allow you to jump as close as possible to any given point in a game! We're kicking things off with a c... What's in a Name? Did you know Dekker’s assault shuttle has a name? It’s called Hermes in the game files but it’s never mentioned in on screen.
Here's an update created for WC4 Remastered:
This also h... Sport That 1996 Style Last week we shared a cool Australian promotional shirt for Wing Commander 4, and now LOAF's found one from Singapore. The design is markedly different with the Black Lance symbol over the WC4 logo o... Goodbye, Bill Pearson Here is some bad news that I totally missed at the time: the great prop maker Bill Pearson passed away back in March. Here's a quick summary of material covering his work on Wing Commander by ways of ... New Cerberus Model Ready to Launch The Prophecy & Secret Ops Model Upgrade Pack is kicking 2020 off with a bang. There's a brand new Cerberus model churning the waters that's even more accurate to the original model while being more e... Heir to the Throne... Suitable for Framing There are many members of the Wing Commander community that are talented artists, but this one comes from even closer to home! Check out this nifty Thrakhath sketch drawn by none other than LOAF's wi... IMDB Takes Video Games To The Movies
The Internet Movie Database has posted a photo gallery collage to highlight the history of video games crossing over to movies. There are 96 examples highlighted (a significant fraction of wh... Wojo Wows with Map Mojo for Pilgrim Project Wojo has been working on his Pilgrim Legacy mod for quite some time, and although we haven't seen too many updates recently, he popped him to provide this nifty New Year's update. First up is an absol... Wing Commander Album To Begin Shipping There's great news from Origin composer George Oldziey. The physical copies of his Wing Commander music album have arrived from the manufacturer, and he's now prepping them for shipment. Copies shou... Eurogamer Digs Up Canceled Origin Games
Eurogamer has posted a new article on the unreleased games of Origin Systems, Inc. It's an interesting look at both conventional and off-the-wall ideas that never made it to production. Th... WC2 Video Playback Technique Developed The ingenious hacking of WC1/2 continues! HCl's latest achievement is understanding how the video sequences play in the WC2 engine. Items such as the games' intro movies and landing clips are a type... Annual Awards Contest Begins A busy year in the Wing Commander community has come to a close, so it's time for another annual tradition. The CIC Web Site & Fan Project of the Year contests help to recognize the numerous contribu... Everyone Loves a Good Dralthi Zohrath has a couple more ships to show off, and these are both beauties. The first is a classic Dralthi with a fantastic weathered texture. It's even sharper than the Jalthi from last year. His se... Confed Fleet Bulks Up Here's the second batch of Wing Commander models by Starman©. This is a pack of later year Confed capships: the Wake, Murphy & Midway, plus a cool size comparison. The 3D designs ended up being a li... WC Saga German Audio Book Released The WC Saga team has released an audio story. It's available as a 23 minute mp3 file voiced completely in German. The events are based on the fiction associated with the mod's prologue chapter. Chec... Happy Birthday Spirit! Not Mariko Tanaka - the other Spirit! NASA's famous Mars rover Spirit has survived to see its sixth birthday. It first touched down on January 4, 2004 with an expected life of just ninety days. Its... Xbox Live Arcade Sales Figures Compiled There's an interesting chart over at vgchartz.com that claims sales statistics on Live Arcade titles to date, which includes Wing Commander Arena. The total units sold is listed at 22,970 with $228,1... Wing Commander Scene Seen on the Small Screen Jacob was one of many fans who caught a surprise showing of the Wing Commander movie on broadcast TV this past weekend. What makes this one particularly noteworthy was that it was also broadcast over... Mod Contest Winners Announced Eddieb has announced the winners for the 2007 Flight Commander Mod of the Year contest. The Wing Commander 1 Remake and Ranger's Glory tied for first place. A Perfect Plan came in a very close second... Point of Origin: Vol. III, No. 48 Privateer has been released! At this time, October 13, 1993, it's too early to tell how it will sell or how it will be reviewed... but the early signs are positive!
A very special thanks to Joe Gar... Classic Battle Brewing Space Pirate was inspired by all the pretty fan art that Wingnuts produce, so he's begun a new animation based around some of his favorite ships. The contrasting whites and blacks of his preliminary ... Amazon Founder Unveils Spacecraft The founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, has unveiled the first results from his new company's attempts to reach space. Bezos' company Blue Origin posted a video from a test launch of their development ... View Virtual Victory Video AD's been working hard on his Wing Commander themed Half Life 2 level, and this time he's got videos to prove it. The first video is a 7 meg wmv that explores an access duct under the deck. The seco... Fan Fabricates Fantasic Figure If you've ever wanted a WC4 style Christopher Blair action figure, AD may have stumbled across the answer. In a move reminiscent of Sid from Toy Story, a guy called Dedcat has ripped the head off of a... Wing Commander DVD Reaches UK Shores Not only was the UK robbed when it came to the theatrical release of the Wing Commander movie, but fans have also been without a DVD release all this time. Fortunately Fox has decided to right this wr... Freelancer Midway Base Files Released Everyone's favorite Freelancer & Dungeon Siege site, Lancers Reactor, has reported a bit on the accidental creation of a base designed like the TCS Midway. Its creator, Aldebaran, thought he was maki... Ultima Online Players Donate Virtual Gold Slashdot is running a pretty funny article about UO players donating towards Tsunami Relief.
Crazy Joe has houses set up on every server in Ultima Online to accept the donations. You can take y... And The Winners Are.. We've tallied the votes and figured out who the winners are for our annual Site of the Year contests. As usual, voting was close. Thanks to all our active Wing Commander sites for contributing to th... Wing Commander Battle Stations First Peek Dbrito sent us a preview shot of a little arcade shooter he's working on entitled Wing Commander Battle Stations.
This is the first public image of a little game I'm creating using Game ... WCA Art 4: Quit Staring at my Dreadnought Hole Today's art shows the underside docking port of Prince Thrakhath's dreadnought, the KIS Agon Ra Sivar. The ship appears in Expendable, Chain of Command and Glory of Sivar (from which the second pictur... Jump FAQ, baby! (That's Where It's At) It's been several years since the original Jump Theory FAQ was updated by Philip Langdale... and so, as a result of a drunken boast at the Chat Zone, I've begun writing an entirely New Jump FAQ. It's ... Scene Three, Take One Rylex has sent a beta screenshot from Scene 3 of Final Conflict. Interesting stuff...
... Invasion Plans The Wing Commander Invasion mod for ST: Armada has announced plans to release 18 new fighters -- starting in the near future, two ships a day will be published for a period of nine days. Following thi... England Finally Gets It! Mohammad Dabiri reports at agwc that Wing Commander will be released on video in England from Global Video on January 17th! A trailer is currently attached to the release of Entrapment. Read about it ... Game Ideas Ranked by the Master Snake sends this translation of an article in the latest PC Games. The 'experienced designers' apparently include Chris Roberts.
Designers Evaluate Reader Ideas
You have a great idea for a gam... HCl for the Holidays PopsiclePete has put up a mirror of HCl's late Wing Commander Editing Site here so as to allow his work to remain online. Thanks, from WC fans everywhere!... Translation Correction Nighthawk notes that "Der Preis der Freiheit" means "The Price of Freedom" in German -- not False Colors as reported yesterday. The book listed at Amazon.de, however, lists Andrew Keith, and not Ben O... Out of the Woods Word from Chris! Attempts to regain lost data on his doomed hard drive have been successfull! He's now working hard to set up everything again and get back online. Very good news...... Suffering From Uncomfortable Seat Sores? It's every pilot's curse... You sit, glued in the cockpit, for three hours as you battle off a horde of marauding pilots, only to spend the rest of your journey with an aching back and red raw buttock... Chris Roberts Speaks Yet more proof that Brits aren't fools, like some Americans would have you believe, Gamespot UK have scored an interview with Chris Roberts about the upcoming WC movie. You can read what Chris has to ...
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