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Origin composer George Oldziey is back with a new status update on the latest vinyl album of Wing Commander music. While CD production was completed earlier this year, the larger vinyl records have been trickier to produce. George is still pushing the producer hard to deliver in a timely...

Origin composer George Oldziey's new Wing Commander album is one step closer. CD production is complete, and the finished units are in his hands! People who pledged for just the compact disc should be seeing them soon. If you are due to get other items such as the vinyl album, these will all...

Wing Commander Academy viewers often come away from the experience with one enduring question: what was the deal with Viking? Viking (or Victoria as she prefers to be known on her own time) is a human pilot who appears only in Wing Commander Academy's first episode. She is part of Blair and...

We love discounts on Wing Commander almost as much as we love diving into peculiar minutiae, so GOG has us covered on both fronts this weekend with their Loot Drop Promo. I can think of plenty of games with loot from classics like Diablo to modern looter shooters like Destiny or The Division...

Origin composer George Oldziey has started shipping out copies of his new Wing Commander album! While production continues for the vinyl, people who opted for just the CD will be receiving their shortly. George put out a survey call earlier in the month for people to confirm their addresses...

I usually try to shake things up a bit more, but we've been on kind of a roll this week with unboxing videos. Dare I share a third one in a row? I will! Yesterday we saw one of the big box/film can versions of Wing Commander 3 opened up, and today we have its exotic cousin - the German big...

GOG has another new sale going this week in honor of Valentine's Day. Their Love at First Pixel deal marks the Wing Commander series down by 60%, which is actually 1% more than the recent Lunar New Year discount. Each package is $2.39 rather than $2.45. And there's one outlier: Privateer 2 is...

The WCRespace team has an exciting new feature to show off: volumetric nebulae for WC4 Remastered! In other words, the pink screen filter of decades past has been replaced by swirling fog that slowly reveals objects out in the distance as you approach. There have also been enhancements to the...

We've got a new poll, and it's a perfect one for 2025! The wonderful calendar included with The Kilrathi Saga was designed to sync up with 1997 and 2673, then the upcoming new year as well as the year the just-released WC4 takes place. It also works for 2025! LOAF recently rescanned the...

Today's a great day! Origin composer George Oldziey has digitally released his second full album of Wing Commander music performed by a live audience! This initial package is available to people who pledged in last year's Kickstarter campaign. The physical CD and vinyl album are still being...

But wait, there's more! For the first time, we also asked fans to vote this year for the greatest fan projects of all time. We reached back into nearly thirty years of community history to come up with five worthy contenders. This was a very interesting experiment in nostalgia and...

We may have taken our time to get here this year, but Wingnuts have cast their votes and we now have the winners of our annual fan project contest! We once again had an excellent slate of nominees but a handful of undertakings rose above the rest. Sometimes we also have so many high achieving...

There's a big new update on the progress of WC4 Remastered! The WCRespace team is now well into building out the Masa System with the new ships and gameplay mechanics that the game introduces there. They've got shuttle docking working and DefianceIndustries has introduced his very impressive...

This is a reminder that there's still a little time left to get your vote in for the annual Fan Project of the Year tally as well as our new poll that asks about the best undertakings of all time. The nominees and voting buttons are below! -- Original update published on February 22, 2025

We're running a bit later than usual, but we're finally kicking off our annual vote to determine Fan Project of the Year! We have a strong list of contenders this year, and there were even more that were on the cusp but excluded to keep the list tight and manageable. Additionally, we've...