News categories list

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

http://

Hello everyone,

Last week, we published the Q&A for the ARGO SRV, answering the top questions voted on by the community. Can the SRV tow asteroids? Can a person in a space suit be towed? Find the answers to those questions and more detailed info on Argo Astronautics’ latest addition to their roster right here.

Our recent Around The Verse revealed a glimpse of the soon to come city planet ArcCorp, the versatile Reliant variants, but also featured a first look at the planned improvements for gimbaled weapons. What is your flavor? Do you trust the gimbals or do you prefer a fixed setup? Let us know in the comments!

Now, let’s see what’s going on this week:

Tuesday is lore day and we’ll take a look at the Hadur System with a Galactic Guide post. You can check out previously published lore posts here, or refresh your memory about the Hadur System.

On Thursday, another episode of Around the

Quote from EVERSPACE News-Bot

We have just released another small patch, which mainly prepares the game for its release on physical cartridges, but also fixes the following two issues:

Bugfixes:

• Don't offer additional primary weapon slot at tuning stations when having ancient weapon glyph equipped
• Fixed deadlock when a progress bar success type message was removed from viewport while equipment selection wheel was opened

Note that we don't have a definitive date for the physical release yet, but we'll announce it shortly! Have fun playing!

Quote from Mass Effect News-Bot

While neither The Witcher nor Mass Effect have new games in their respective series coming any time soon, as far as anyone is aware, both franchises have given fans enough to find excitement this month. The Witcher has a big budget live-action Netflix series in the works, and Mass Effect gear is prominently featured in Anthem, the big new game by their shared developer BioWare.

Given the vastly different sci-fi and fantasy genres embodied by these two franchises, one might think a crossover between these two to be unlikely. Well, one fan has taken on this challenge with a new piece of The Witcher Mass Effect crossover fan art.

DeviantArt user Golbex has released their wonderful new Witcher Mass Effect crossover fan art for the world to see. The piece, titled “Geralt, The reaperslayer,” aptly depicts Geralt of Rivia decked out in full signature N7 armor after defeating a Marauder. This futuristic version

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Minor grail acquired: one of the post cards Origin sent to customers who had pre-ordered

The Secret Missions

in 1990. “Happy Wing Commandering!” This was hidden in a seemingly normal listing for a copy of Wing Commander I. Big box collectors, always look closely at what someone has kept with their old games...

This copy had some other treasures, too, including an old packing slip I can’t share because it’s full of someone’s personal information. But peep this: one of the counter placards that would’ve sat next to a store computer showing off the WC rolling demo!

Quote from Star Trek Online News-Bot

Have you ever wanted the opportunity to design a Star Trek t-shirt, poster, or more? Us too – which is why we’re incredibly excited to announce that we’re teaming up with For Fans By Fans to host a Mirror of Discovery Fan Forge Challenge! You can submit a piece of art based on Mirror of Discovery, for a chance to have it become a piece of licensed apparel or merchandise on For Fans By Fans’ website. We’ll be accepting entries for t-shirts, hoodies and tanks, as well as art prints, mousepads, wallets, and messenger bags. But that’s not all. Every single person who enters the contest will receive the “Dedicated Fan: in-game title, and a Infinity Promotions R&D Pack on PC – which can open into a Tier 6 ship, including the Constitution Class. The Top Five designers, as chosen by our panel of judges, will receive the “Fanatic” in-game title, and a Discovery Operations Bundle on PC!

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Episode 3 of

ALL WINGS CONSIDERED

is coming in hot! Tune in this week for an in-depth discussion on the Hellcat medium fighter as well as another exciting roundtable for the End Run Book Club. And that's just scratching the surface! Join us this Thursday, February 28, at 7 PM Eastern US Time (4 PM Pacific) on

YouTube

and

Discord

.

Join us Thursday, March 7 on or about 7 PM Eastern for the second thrilling episode of All Wings Considered!

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

This Galactic Guide originally appeared in Jump Point 5.1.

After centuries of cold war and tense diplomacy with the Xi’an empire, there are few places where interspecies relations have thawed more than in the Yā’mon system. This former no man’s land has, in recent times, transformed into a symbol of cooperation and new hope for all who desire lasting peace between our species.

Humanity’s first view of the system came from Teesa Morrison’s flight footage as she traversed the Baker-Yā’mon jump point in 2531. What started as an exuberant accounting of her initial findings of a main sequence class F star, anchoring four planets, turned into sheer panic when she ran into a Xi’an military unit escorting a mining team to the belt. Familiar with the Xi’an from the press coverage of the Pallas incident the year prior, Morrison and her crew fled immediately. The Xi’an military ships followed

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

In anticipation of all the Hellcat love planned for tomorrow's episode of

All Wings Considered

,

Klavs

has cooked up renders of both the

Grumman

and

Douglas Aerospace

versions. They're a couple of beauties! For all the other big fans of these craft, tune in Thursday for a full rundown on these trusty birds - and much more!

How timely, my very favourite airplane! And look what I happen to be working on!

Just please don't fall into the trap of saying that the F6F was developed in response to the Zero! The contract for the Hellcat was signed in June 1940, prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and when the US knew very little about Japanese capabilities! And the first F6F flew only a few days after the Akutan Zero was recovered! #hellcatpedant! I have many other interesting Hellcat facts that aren't in the wikipedia article if you're interested, or want more images! I have done a stupid amount of work on

Quote from Star Trek Online News-Bot

Hey there - my name is Jo, and I'm the UI designer on STO! To say I am passionate about this update is a bit of an understatement. My first goal upon joining the team was to address the Character Creator UI, and when they said I could work on it I literally jumped up and danced. I am ecstatic that my first post gets to be about something I care (maybe too much) about: Player Experience and Space Barbie. Okay, that was two things I care greatly about... The character creator is one of those features you see in games that started out simple, and worked fine when it was made, but as new factions and species were added to the game, it quickly got bloated and overwhelming. My first goal was to clean up the UI and cut down on the visual clutter. We used to just throw every option at you all at once on one page. When I built my first character I was so excited to see all the options, and the LCARS were

Quote from Star Trek Online News-Bot

General: The character creation UI has been updated with an all new look and player experience. Simplified UI visuals and smoother progression process through the Character Creation. To celebrate the new UI we are giving 1 additional character slot to everyone. Updated Allegiance descriptions for all allegiance choices. Updated descriptions of all classes, for all allegiances. Nausicaans now have a full set of head presets to choose from. Added Lethean Head preset choices that were previously never created. Added missing Tail customization for Caitian Characters. Resolved sorting issues within the various options. Resolved an issue that was preventing items from being unlocked after purchasing any Packs from the Arc website. Systems: "Defeat Tholian" Personal Endeavors now properly track Tholians wearing EV suits. Removed the extraneous "Endeavor: " text from the

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

Get to know mission giver Twitch Pacheco, take a closer look at weapons coming in Alpha 3.5, and go spelunking through R&D in this week’s update.

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

The third 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 series. This week we're continuing the story of Special Operations 1, opening a MYSTERY BOX debating (and flying) Hellcats and talking through chapters 5 through 8 of END RUN! If you're watching live, you can join the End Run book discussion through the voice chat channel of our Discord server here. Missed the stream? The replay will be available below once it has been processed by YouTube. You can subscribe to the AWC channel for future notifications here.

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

Character Creative Director Josh Herman creates a potential helmet for a Banu Character.

To watch Reverse the Verse LIVE each and every week, tune into Twitch.

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

We've reported on several instances over the last few years of Wing Commander music being performed

live in concert

in and around Sweden. Super awesome, but also pretty unusual, so what's the story here? Orvar Safstrom, the CEO of

Underscore Productions

, dropped in to explain what's up! It's very cool that the musical arrangements are set up to mimic a typical Wing Commander mission profile. Here's to their continues success and hopefully many more WC performances!

Hi everyone! I had no idea this was a sort of WCN forum mystery going on. Here's the story:

I'm the CEO/producer of Underscore Productions, we create symphony orchestra concerts with game and film music. SCORE and JOYSTICK are strictly game music while WE COME IN PEACE (sci fi), SAGAS (fantasy), THE HORROR (duh) and WE CAN BE HEROES (heroic/adventure/superheroes) include music from film, TV and games in the genre.

We've been doing the

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

AudioKinetic

has published a great keynote speech by George

The Fat Man

Sanger at an event they held last October. It's titled, "5 Things I Refused to Learn in 35 Years of Game Audio." Mr. Sanger is a very engaging speaker with lots of great stories from the early '80s video game development scene all the way to today. The talk is over an hour long, and I highly recommend the clip for anyone with a fascination in how gaming and game audio specifically evolved into what it is today!

Well this is it. I think this keynote is about the best non-musical hour I can offer you. May it bring you a smile!

--------------------------------------

Rules apply to game audio in much the same way as a string applies to a kite. To make wise business decisions, you need to know things: product category, benefits, competition, chief differentiating factors.

And

• solve a major, common problem in a growing market
• have an

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Artist Alan Gutierrez has posted two more of the paintings that he created for the 1995 Wing Commander Collectible Trading Card Game. These two 'Luck' cards represent two of the fifteen paintings Mr. Gutierrez created for the game. You can learn more about his fantastic work on the card game here.

First up is Kilrathi Capture Pilot which was a Confederation Luck card that allowed the human player to take an enemy pilot from a destroyed fighter.

From the card game "Wing Commander", commissioned and published by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, 1995

This Kilrathi is none too happy at being captured, and is one of 4 "Luck" cards I did, showing 2 of each adversary.

Gouache on masonite.

The second painting is its counterpart, Kilrathi Recovery Pilot, which was a Kilrathi card that allowed the alien player to recover a pilot from a destroyed ship.

From the card game "Wing Commander" commissioned and published

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

Adm_Maverick

's tabletop miniatures game has taken an interesting turn. Initial development so far has focused on

paper ships and cards

, but Maverick is now looking at some simple 3D printing options. He's considering tweaking the game to use small plastic ships as well as some clever

pilot console

scorekeeping devices to even potentially minimize the need for cards. Something like that could be useful in conjunction with the official WC CCG. It'll be cool to see how that pans out! You can follow the development and help provide feedback at the

CIC Forums

.

I've got a project file all setup to print 2 Bearcats and 2 Dralthi IV in different orientations so I can figure out which way it will work best to print ships.

But I've got other things that will be printed up. For one thing, I'm working on some rough ideas for the 'pilot console' design. The Pilot Console will be a tray of some form that will

Quote from Star Citizen News-Bot

http://

Hello everyone,

Recently, a new ship from Argo Astronautics was unveiled. From tugging massive cargo containers to team-towing titans through the stars, the tenacity and rugged reliability of ARGO engineering are on full display in the SRV. As a reminder, this promotion ends tonight at midnight!

Now, let’s see what’s going on this week:

We’ve got an action packed schedule this week! Tuesday is lore day and we’ll take a look at the rabid fans of Star Marine and their dedicated hardcore Spectrum channel, Marine One.

Wednesday unveils the Star Citizen Monthly Report for February, chock full of info to help you stay up to date with what our teams around the globe have been working on over the past month.

On Thursday, another episode of Around the Verse takes a look at the latest Star Citizen news.

Friday sees a Roadmap update and the RSI Newsletter delivered right to your inbox. We also

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

It's almost time for another episode of ALL WINGS CONSIDERED! For our fourth episode we'll be celebrating twenty years of the Wing Commander movie with a group watch. Join us this Thursday, March 14th, at 7 PM Eastern US Time (4 PM Pacific) on YouTube and Discord; be sure to bring a copy of the movie to watch along with us!

Quote from Wing Commander News-Bot

In 1999, they made a movie of my favorite video game. Like much of the fandom at the time, I was a senior in high school and it was that point in our lives when the world seemed most huge and infinite, the future seemed wonderful and terrifying and we all seemed like we could do no wrong. We had begged and pleaded with the God of intellectual property management for years for just this moment and its timing seemed almost divine: our favorite series elevated to the next level of respectability just as we too prepared to take off to start running the world. But this isn't a great success story about the best movie. I can't tell you that Wing Commander is a great movie. I can't even tell you it's a very good movie. What I can tell you is that Wing Commander is my favorite movie.

Growing old is straight out of a Twilight Zone script. You want badly to impart your hard-fought wisdom to the next generation.