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How To Stand out From the Crowd
I finally got around to taking pictures of a pair of mini standees that I added to the collection last year. They're visually quite different from each other, but were intended for the same function ... WC1 Full Speech Mod Gets Updated
The Wing Loader project to add full speech to the original (Kilrathi Saga) version of Wing Commander 1 has been out for a couple weeks now. In that time, Destro and a number of fans have been able to... Start Your Weekend Right with Wing Commander Remixes
Symphonic Remakes is a YouTube channel dedicated to remixing classic video game tunes. They've recently taken a stab at the Wing Commander series and have a handful of WC1/2 tracks to share as a resu... 3D Printed Excalibur Gets Socially Distanced Enhancements
Chronocidal Guy has returned with an update on his elaborate 3D printed Excalibur model. He's taken advantage of valuable stay-at-home time over the last year to refine the design into a number of pu... Meet the WC2 Characters... as of 1990!
I've been staying busy with a little CIC housekeeping. Enjoy a newly-transcribed Wing Commander II development document featuring very early (December 1990) character descriptions! You can fi... Tabletop Game Tests Pilot Console
Adm_Maverick has mocked up a neat 'pilot console' for his Wing Commander tabletop game. He's built a template for the variety of fighter status that a ship would want to track, and it's been paired w... Saitek Profiles Recovered
During Wing Commander's heyday, companies like Thrustmaster and Saitek sold higher end programmable controllers that could be configured for a variety of different games. We've been doing some researc... Wing Commander Meme of the Day: The Most Interesting Man in the World
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... Japanese Translators Needed: Mega CD Manual
Remember Lyle Starbuck? That's the name used for the player character in the Mega CD port of Wing Commander I's manual! It's one of at least three original Japanese-language Wing Commander publication... WC Saga Deutsch Up To Version 1.06
Long time visitors will be familiar with Wing Commander Saga Plus, a series of patches to improve the user interface, usability and modability of the original Wing Commander Saga project. Luke and abo... Wing Commander Joining Origin Humble Bundle Soon
Electronic Arts is participating in a new Humble Bundle sale for charity. For those unfamiliar with this event, players can name their price for a set of games that would otherwise retail for $134. ... First Space Sim Debuts on Next Gen Platforms
The XBox One and Playstation 4 consoles have received their first space sim, an enhanced release of Strike Suit Zero. Compared to the original PC release, the latest edition includes improved graphic... Microsoft Talks Backwards Compatibility
Reports from last week's Microsoft Build developers conference note that the company is looking into backwards compatibility for the XBox One. Such prospects still sound like a bit of a long shot, an... Gemini Sector Population Grows with Latest Casting Call
As the first chapter of Wing Commander A Defiant Few continues to wrap up, casting has begun on the third episode. The characters being sought here are all Confed officers this time around. They'll ... Basic TacOps Game Coding Almost Complete
More improvements have been made to the TacOps Online engine. Secondary weapon systems such as flak and missiles are pretty well integrated with the game now, but the biggest news is that almost all ... Wing Commander Editor/Viewer Test Available
Here's a story from a while ago that we missed earlier. Over the period of a year or so, Flashpoint has been building a Wing Commander 1 editor. The project began when he went looking for something ... Deadly First Contact Reported in Vega Sector
Today in the year 2629, the Iason suffered its famous and fateful encounter with the Kilrathi destroyer K'rath'kan. First Contact results in the complete destruction of the Iason and loss of ... Anker?! I Just Met Her...
Obee reports that his latest album, Anker, is now available and can be downloaded here. Note that this is a German album that doesn't have anything to do with Wing Commander, much like the official s... Paper Talon Almost Complete
P�ricles has posted pictures of his latest paper model, the F-38 Talon. The design is based off the Standoff model and will be available in three different color schemes - Church of Man, Pirate and G... Making the Game: Mission S5
S5 is the fifth 'rookie' TrainSim mission. The goal here is to learn all the things that you don't necessarily need to play Wing Commander Prophecy: power management, autosliding and the like. My favo... Prophecy Leaves Reviewers Hungary For More
L�vai J�zsef has found a Wing Commander Prophecy review in the February 1998 edition of the Hungarian magazine PC Guru. The game received a rating of 89%. The article also featured several storyboards... WC HD - Still 17 Chances To See
If you have UniversalHD, a channel included with many cable packages, your next chance to see the Wing Commander Movie in high definition is this Friday! It's on their schedule all through June. Also ... From The Archives: False Colors Interview
I was putting together a short article on 'lost' Wing Commander novels last night when I made an unpleasant discovery: the original interview we did with Andrew Keith, co-author of Heart of the Tiger ... This Ship's A Straith Shooter
Deacan has released another update to his fancy Straith touch-up. The set of images below starts with Jacob Hudson's conceptual outline and artistic top-down redesign. A handful of his custom Brute ... New 3D Models Ready For Action
Zohrath has over overhauled his modeling website for the first time in a couple years. He has made available a variety of WC3/4 era designs in several popular 3d software formats. Since he's continu... Video Game Movies in a Nutshell
In anticipation of the upcoming Silent Hill movie, MoviesOnline.ca has published A Brief History of Video Game Movies. The article hits the genre's important points, from 1993's Super Mario Br... Holding The Line Chapter 200
It's a week of milestones for Holding The Line. First of all they've reached the huge milestone of two hundred chapters of the story, which is a big enough achievement, but also today marks the 10th a... It Seems Like Only Yesterday..
Around the time of the Wing Commander Movie release, a variety of tie-in promotions were announced. Some were released and others didn't make it, but one of the most fantastic projects to get the Win... Can't Keep A Blackmane Down
Tolwyn has posted four renders of the Confederation starbase from Wing Commander Saga (Freespace 2 mod). (It's just like yesterdays update, in reverse!) The design originally appeared in Wing Commande... Small Academy Returns Home
If you're on dialup (or if you just like to pretend you're on dialup), then you may be happy to learn that Dishwasher's 'old version' Wing Commander Academy mirror is back. These are the original DivX... Happy Easter
And a happy Easter for those few Wing Commander fans who aren't members of the Cult of Sivar or the Pilgrim Alliance... have fun, and, uhm, drive safely... not that, as far as I know, Easter is a big ... Trivia Reminder
Remember to turn in your week 24 Trivia responses -- this is your last chance! New questions, previous answers and score updates will be posted on Monday morning.... Unknown Enemy Shot!(s)
Some amazing new screenshots from Unknown Enemy, the upcoming fan-made Secret Ops campaign. Check out that mag-nificent Fralthi in the briefing...
... Academy Mirror, Episode 8
We're back to the weekly routine... so TyeDyeBoy is now serving up Episode 8 of Wing Commander Academy, Recreation. Grab it here.... SubSpace Sounds
Want to spice up your SS life? TCS Midway has created a set of Wing Commander sounds for use with the WCZone patch -- grab it here (.2 mb).... Wing Commander Editing Gets a Home
Maverick's Wing Commander Development Center is open for business. Among the team are Jumper of the Source Code Release Project and Thomas Bruckner of the legendary WCP Edit. Their current project is ... Incursion Project Takes a Break
Shane Mackay of the Incursion project reports.
Incursion has been cancelled off an internet release for now because of the file sizes being of a stupid size, we have tried all of the compression me... Two Starlancer Previews For The Price of One
Let's begin with a snippet from Sharky Extreme's article.
The Robertses are old hands at the space combat genre, but will their experience in creating the Wing Commander and Privateer series help... The Sexual Revolution!
By Zake Blackwar, mouthpiece of truth. Wide-scale armed rebellion has broken out on Karatikus, following the passing of controversial new 'sex licensing' laws. The brainchild of Senator Ray Cox, the b... You Wont Believe This!
If you had any doubts about upcoming Wing Commander products, this one will blow you away. I'll let the press release (off Internet Wire) explain. Thanks to ATFW.LOS ANGELES, CA -- (INTERNET WIRE) --...
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