Forums member wcnut noticed that his easy-to-use Mac launcher for Standoff and Secret Ops no longer works on the latest release of OS X. He's put together a new bundle that includes a newer version of the Wine emulator, and now everything runs smoothly again on OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Grab it here...

Two actors from Wing Commander IV appear in the new season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy. Mark Dacascos (Troy "Catscratch" Carter) plays Kung Lao, a shaolin monk who was introduced in Mortal Kombat II (1993) and is buddies with Liu Kang. Van Dien appeared briefly in Wing 4 but is best known for...

As part of our 15th anniversary slate, we rolled out an updated Holovids video archive. We've now converted one set of movies that was missing on August 10: the VHS quality Privateer 2 cinematics have been converted to modern streamable formats (H.264 and WebM) so that they can be watched from...

For the 2006 CIC Anniversary, we launched the Holovids video archive as the central repository for trailers and previews, original cinematics, behind the scenes material and deleted footage. The section contains dozens upon dozens of downloadable movie clips, collected over the CIC's long...

We conclude our series of old Prophecy reviews on another high note with this one-pager from the Spring 1998 issue of PC Guide. The reviewer deems Prophecy the "best Wing Commander yet" and is endeared by the variety of flyable craft and the "stunningly beautiful" 3D-accelerated graphics...

Let's at least find a way to host the downloads here. Better that than put everything on Mediafire and hope it's still there in 12 months.

The next installment in our series of old Prophecy reviews is taken from the March 1998 issue of PC Home. This very positive review from a Wing Commander veteran praises the "stunning" 3D-accelerated graphics, the size of the capital ships and the plot. The reviewer is saddened that the...

The old CGW link no longer works. You can find that issue here now.

Next in our series of old Prophecy reviews is PC Gamer's. The reviewer praises the upgraded graphics that run smoothly even without 3D acceleration (some people didn't have one, or they had a chipset that was unsupported) and Syd Mead's alien design work. Negatives are that it's too similar to...

Longtime visitor Andrew Luby is still plugging away at his Wing Commander inspired space sim Eterium. Since we first covered the game, development seems to have shifted from XNA (Xbox and Windows) to just Windows for PC. A crowdfunding campaign will wrap up at the end of the month. They now have...

Pix's Origin Adventures has scanned and uploaded several Prophecy reviews from popular 1990s PC gaming magazines. The CIC will be sharing a number of them with you over the next week. We kick off with the March 1998 issue of PC Format. The tone of the review is very positive and the game is...

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Remember when Chris Roberts interviews were hard to come by? During the Star Citizen announcement and crowdfunding craziness, they were coming out faster than we could report on them. AD has collected a few that were overlooked but are still worth checking out today. First up is delonick. He...

Back in the '80s and '90s, supported games sounded a lot better if you had an expensive Roland MIDI card for your PC. Now, it's possible to enjoy nearly the same audio quality through software emulation. We first reported on the munt Roland MT-32 emulator two years ago. The emulator has since...

The Hyperkin RetroN 5 is an upcoming console that emulates a number of popular gaming machines. The system has slots for NES, SNES, Super Famicon, Sega Genesis, Megadrive and Gameboy Color/Advance. If you've wanted to play your PAL or Super Famicon Wing Commander on a North American computer's...

Josh Lucas, the actor who played Jace "Flash" Dillon in Wing Commander III is returning to space. In Space Warriors, a group of kids make it into NASA space camp under the wing of Lucas' character, when something goes wrong aboard the International Space Station. The movie was filmed at the...

Wing Commander Saga's developers have released a toolkit for creating new missions for their game engine. One of the most notable contributions is a code template for mimicking Wing Commander's fly-by autopilot sequences. The team has also put together a care package for aspiring modders...

I guess this pack automated a few things, but if you just want to play Prophecy in high resolution, the manual instructions we have here should work: https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/7428

Amended, thanks.

Last week, Sony sort of unveiled the upcoming PlayStation 4. Unlike the PS2 and PS3, the new console will not play your older disc-based or digitally downloaded games. However, it does sound like you'll be able to stream classic titles on the new console, similar to OnLive or Gaikai services...