Happy Halloween, WingNuts! Happy Halloween from the Wing Commander Combat Information Center team! Can you identify all the spooky ships in this festive seasonal collage?
... and of course, if you have kiddos out tri... Happy CIC Halloween! BOO! From us to you!
... Happy CIC Halloween! It's time for a new CIC Poll, and in the spirit of Halloween, we're asking what spooky-sounding Wing Commander fighters are the creepiest to you. Here's LOAF with a rundown!
Now that it's ... Happy Halloween!
Spooky season is here which means it’s once again time to unleash the scariest spaceship of all time… Privateer 2’s Jincilla Skull!
... Happy Halloween! Boo! 2020 style! We hope you stay safe tonight and every night. Remember, the real monsters are the ones out there not wearing face masks.
... All Wings Considered - Episode 29 - LIVE! The latest episode of ALL WINGS CONSIDERED is live now! All Wings Considered is the CIC's first ever streaming variety show which features news, conversation and gameplay relating to our favorite seri... Happy Halloween! It's an especially Happy Halloween this year for CIC founder Bandit (LOAF) who finally found the Cinema Secrets Kilrathi mask after nearly 20 years of searching! When the WC Movie collectible was ori... Arena Concept Art Inspires New Models After recently refining his slick Excalibur model, DefianceIndustries took a crack at turning it into the futuristic variant proposed in the Wing Commander Arena concept art. Its main vertical stabil... Happy Halloween! It's the creepiest day of the year, so here's the creepiest fighter in the known universe! The Skull is ostensibly the Jincilla Pirate Clan's lightest fighter, but it's way scarier than the Veldor or... Happy Halloween! Here's a look back at a relatively obscure merchandise tie-in for the Wing Commander Movie. Along with items like books, action figures and the Pilgrim Cross, a company called Cinema Secrets licensed... Klavs' 3D Hangars Open For Business Wing Commander modeler Klavs continues to break out of 2D with his latest effort. He has uploaded his WC1/2 fighter designs to p3d.in, a service for sharing 3D models through the browser. Users can ea... New Bearcat Hits The Drawing Board TurboTim hasn't been in the news for a while, but he's trying to get back into the Wing Commander groove. Tim's new at 3D modeling, but there's already a good start to a Bearcat here. The geometry i... Chris Roberts Live Chat Tonight At 5 PM PST!
If you can, swing by the RSI site and jump in on the live chat with Chris Roberts. He's conducting another session tonight at 5 pm PST (8 pm EST). He was on for several hours last night answer... Warren Spector on Choices and Consequences Penny Arcade talked to Wing Commander veteran Warren Spector about player freedom in solving game puzzles. Check it out here.
The way Spector looks at a problem is almost backwards, at least from... Fancy Equipment Remains in the Aftermath Operation Serpent has gotten some assistance from Cybot in bringing some new (old) Black Lance hardware online. The designs below show off how the Axius Starbase, Black Lance Carrier and a new armed ... Original Wing Commander Logo Vectorized elend has created two beautiful sets of artwork based on the logos used for the original Wing Commander. One is based more on the digitized design that appears in game and the other is more similar t... Wing Commander IV Storyboards - Scene 57 Scene 57 - Maniac, seemingly oblivious to Eisen's problems, brags to Blair about how attractive Dr. Brody is. You know, the woman he helped kidnap. Future filmmakers wondering how you animate 'Tom Wil... CSIS Close to First Alpha Test |BoH_Havoc| and Germanunkol continue to make progress on their CSiS space sim. They are currently working on a feature that lets players put custom decals on their ship's hull. The team also reports t... Stiletto on The Forgotten Iceblade noticed that Heather Stephens currently has a recurring role on the ABC TV series The Forgotten, a show about amateur homicide detectives. Although she has been away from games and movies for... THE SPORE, EAT THE SPORE How is a galactic penis monster like a tricked-out Centurion fighter? On second thought, don't answer that question... or even think about it. Nevertheless, 1Up has a review of Spore which suggests ju... Making the Games: Odds and Ends Today we finish the first disc of Captain Johnny's latest contribution to Wing Commander history -- but don't worry, there's a huge second set of images and documents which we will begin presenting to... New Model Is Super Kevin Caccamo has released pictures of a new Drayman model. If it doesn't look familiar to you, that's because this Drayman comes from Super Wing Commander. It's not yet complete, but the basic stru... Point of Origin: Vol. II, No. 18 June 5, 1992 - Origin returns from a successful CES show in Chicago! Buzz and sales of Ultima VII and Underworld are good and a series of important pre-orders for Strike Commander have been made. Now ... Nexus Mod Bounces Back Several attempts to create fan mods for Nexus failed to hold their momentum earlier this year, but Exarch is attempting to get things back together with his project. He's been working on integrating ... Replay Someday As we expected, it appears that EA Replay was not released today. Unfortunately, Electronic Arts' official press site has not been changed to reflect a new date... so, for the time being we're going t... Waterloos Back In Fashion There has been a sudden resurgence in the popularity of Waterloo class cruisers with both Bob McDob and Marc working on 3D models. Bob is working on a complete model of the cruiser. The blue parts are... Happy Halloween Happy Halloween everybody! We hope you all have a great time tonight. Try not to get too scared, particularly if you happen to meet Chris wearing his Kilrathi masks in a dark alley.
... Reckoning Freelancer Mod Nearing Release We haven't heard anything from the people behind the Freelancer based mod, Privateer: The Reckoning, for quite some time now, but behind the scenes the team has been very busy. So much so that Warzog ... Universe Maps Get Updated LOAF's Wing Commander Universe Maps is one of lesser known sections at the CIC, but it's very cool. It builds on the universe map which was included with Prophecy by adding systems featured in the nov... A Bonus WCA Episode For You Today It's the last day of the month, so we're going to use up the last bit of our bandwidth with a Wing Commander Academy episode. The last one this month is "E10 - On Both Your Houses. It's 65 megs and ... Never Say Lev-Arr(is) Again Wedge007 reports that Clive Owen is apparently no longer in the running to play the next James Bond. A widely repeated wire report cites a 'credible source' which claims that "Owen lacks the necessary... That's No Casey... It's a DANE! Here's the man Casey was... two drafts and a shooting script before he became Iceman's son:
2ND LIEUTENANT TOM DANE
Cadet Pilot. Early twenties. And our new PLAYER. Dane was a foundling; an aban... Happy Halloween Today is another happy day in the US and other countries where you can get away with walking around absolutely anywhere in a Wing Commander flight suit or Kilrathi armor. That's what I'll be doing. ... Unknown Enemy Released! The full version of Unknown Enemy has finally been released (a lite version is said to be in the works)! Head over to their downloads page to get your copy. Unknown Enemy is the first total conversion... WCPolaroids: Casey (2/24) Apparently, Casey made a boo-boo. His incorrect rank insignia is actually noticeable at points throughout the first half or so of Prophecy.
... Boo! Happy Halloween, everybody! Here's something truly terrifying from your pals at the CIC...
... More Projects Once again the CIC's Fan Projects section, the most fan project-y place on Earth, has been updated -- it's now chock full of delicious fan project information. And beef!... Jump in the Polls TyeDyeBoy brings us the results from that Planet Jump Gate poll from a while back:46.79% of you think it´s a fine flight model which shouldn´t be changed at all, 29.36% would prefer a more Newtonian (... Misplaced Ferret The WCDC brings to attention this, which was posted to X-Wing: Legacy a few days ago... along with three pretty screenshots.
The Wing Commander Total Conversion project is stepping up the pace, w... A Frightening Update Want to be just like Billy, Harry and Flip? Want to have a vaguely Wing Commander related item you can carry around with you? Go search for 'silver florin' on eBay. It'll be even more fun than the Ult... Get the Script Weasel reports that Script Shop is selling the Wing Commander script. No word on what version it is, but I would assume it has the 'missing' scenes. It's only $15... naturally, they also have a great ... Add Some To Texture Their Universe Pedro of Unknown Enemy is looking for someone to create textures for their new ship models -- including the Bengal, Kilrathi Super Carrier, Dragon II and two Kilrathi fighters. You can find pictures o... Happy Halloween Hope everybody has fun on this most important day of the year -- the one where you get an extra hour of sleep. Happy Halloween from the CIC!... Hacker Hunger Horror on Hermes By Jim Polo, our Hermes correspondent. An evil computer genius has brought suffering to millions through his deviant ways. The cunning coder hacked into the source files for all food processing plants... The CIC Wants YOU! One of the coolest non-computer games has got to be the Wing Commander CCG. We aim to change all that... the CIC is looking for anybody with programming experience and way too much time on their hands... Happy Halloween The staff here at the CIC would like to wish everyone who celebrates a happy Halloween today. One final reminder, today is also the last day of the internet episodic release of Secret Ops. The next ...
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