Joystiq is carrying a story about two classic franchises that EA has recently brought back. While the Syndicate relaunch was not a huge commercial success, the newest installment in the SSX snowboarding series has done really well. An EA exec does not rule other more franchise resurrections...

I've ordered DVDs from Amazon before and they've never taken more than 7 work days to arrive here. Life moves a little slower at the customs office and a 4-6 week estimate allows for them to process your package, but Amazon packages seem to move right through.

If you haven't yet downloaded the long-awaited fan game, now is as good a time as any to get your hands on a copy! The Windows installer weighs in at a hefty 3.4 gigabytes, so we recommend some kind of download manager that can resume paused or failed transfers. Older Windows editions may have...

We have another update from Fatcat: The model is being made out of wood and fiberglass. We previously reported on this in July and September. If you're into arts and crafts you can also try your hand at building a wooden Hornet or a paper SWACS. -- Original update published on October...

Standoff and UE downloads have been noticeably higher. We *should* still have all download statistics post-Standoff, but it would take some time to go over 6 years of data. The picture will always be incomplete because both games had multiple mirrors and have appeared on bittorrent trackers.

It's been about a week since Wing Commander Saga was released and so far our visitors have downloaded roughly 2.6 terabytes worth, or about 800 complete copies. The first 48 hours were particularly busy. Our 100mbit connection was maxed out almost the entire time, and some smaller download...

This maxed out our 100mbps line for a good 36 hours and it's currently at half capacity. As of this morning, some 1.5 terabytes or about 450 copies downloaded from our mirror.

TheWrap reports that Wing Commander star Matthew Lillard has won an audience award at this year's SXSW for his directorial debut. Fat Kid Rules The World won in the category "narrative spotlight". Watch the trailer here. -- Original update published on March 20, 2012

Due out Summer '99! They left their Solsector hosting many years ago and are probably self-hosted. I think we still maintain a redirect to their new website. Their Crius forum came as part of the hosting package, but for the longest time their Hardlight board has been the best place to discuss...

Cloud storage for savegames is a great addition. Uncanny!

There doesn't seem to be any way to predefine a set of avatars for users to (randomly) choose from. I did find a set of gender-based avatars that works a lot better with our dark color scheme. The CIC doesn't have an art department, so we'll welcome any contributions...

From Chat Zone member wcnut and the Standoff team comes this gift for Macintosh users: You can download it here (700 megs), and leave your feedback on the Standoff forums. Special thanks for this goes to "johnniewaves" from the Mac Porting Team for his help. -- Original update published on...

I've seen a couple of these errors across our various databases since upgrading to a newer version of MySQL. The table has been repaired. Please contact me directly or post to the feedback subforum if this problem occurs again.

This was a few years before PHP and MySQL took off. Web development involved Perl scripts and flat files for your data. UBB kept a separate file for each thread, adding new posts to either the top or the bottom. I think it couldn't figure out what to do with posts from the year 19100 and a bunch...

It's probably because you're using the anonymouse.org web proxy.

We should be able to handle games.slashdot.org or reddit just fine. We have a dedicated server, so no one will get upset if the machine gets pounded.

The sidebar is at https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/MediaWiki:Sidebar. I don't know if sysops or bureaucrats have permission to edit it.

You're probably thinking of this series of updates. I remembered it because parts 4 and 7 are on the list of files that have gone missing over the years. The oldest reference I can find to a press kit tape is from March 1999. Since you mentioned storage and bandwidth limitations... here's a...

My 360 got the RROD two years ago and I haven't had any issues since the repair. I have to delete things from the tiny hard drive all the time and the cooling sounds like an airplane taking off. Without HDMI I'm also stuck using the composite to VGA cable. The vsync problems with some games are...