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Here's a little treasure: a Swedish magazine article about flight tactics in the original Wing Commander that has had a series of original maneuvering diagrams commissioned for it! They feature original 3D models of the Hornet, Dralthi and Dorkir (!) that seem to have been created for this...

In 1994, Origin Systems recognized that they needed to cash in on the nascent first person shooter craze. For roughly a decade, Origin had been the star of the game development pantheon, known for pushing the limits of technology and making cutting edge games that had no comparison. The long...

In our recent update archiving articles from Aint it Cool News there was a story which mentioned Wing Commander movie storyboards in the January 1998 issue of Ultimate PC, a UK-based magazine. I decided to look up the article and it is... something! It's an extensive and interesting piece on the...

The original asteroids were rocks from the parking lot at Origin which they digitized!

Greetings WingNuts, We weren't going to do after action reports for movies that were just referenced by Wing Commander… but there's so much we noticed in The Empire Strikes Back that we decided to keep it going and at least post what was referenced each week. Plus, we have to have a place for...

Just wanted to stop in and congratulate you folks on the mature self-moderation here. I sure don't want to run a message board and I'm glad I don't have to :D (I'm not touching Freespace 2 commentary or AI with an extremely long stick, though :D)

I'm always excited to discover a new piece of Wing Commander-related advertising... and we've got a big one today! Baen ran these unique magazine advertisements for Wing Commanders End Run and Fleet Action in Science Fiction Chronicle in December 1993 and January 1994, respectively. There's some...

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is The Empire Strikes Back and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement...

I made a terrible discovery while looking through our archive: we have not updated on the incredible Privateer 2 artwork of Jayden Morris (ArtStation) in years and they have recreated at least two truly incredible ships in that time. We reported on their stunning remake of the Anhur landing...

StarfleetDesign is a prolific and talented illustrator known for recreating obscure Star Trek-related graphics... and sometimes imagining new ones! That's exactly what happened here, with a Wing Commander-styled take on the Star Trek logo. Star Trek / Wing Commander Mashup Logo (ArtStation)...

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Nice, thank you! I think the idea is that the part at the bottom is for civilian ships and the part at the top is the military base. The 1992 art list specifies that "the Perry hangar for private ships is a completely separate berth for each ship" which is distinct from the military area which...

Greetings WingNuts, The Wing Commander movie club found the Search for Spock worth the effort! It sometimes feels like Star Trek III gets a bad rap just to fit together the 'even good, odd bad' Star Trek movie joke. The reality is that it only ever falters at the very end with a final ten...

Spock has been found – and guess what, he regenerated and lived his whole life and happened to end up exactly as old as he was the first time. What luck! In all seriousness, we loved Star Trek III and talked a lot about how important it was in setting up the next twenty years of Star Trek...

At the very least it's not Ellen Guon's intent since the last time we see Hassa she's preparing to fight Imperial soldiers. It could be Zukara, though--it would make sense for her to be in charge of the ceremony at Firekka.

Two others we see: - The priestess from the "Sivar's Glory" TCG card - https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/images/WCTCG_Luck_Sivar%27s_Blessing.png - The nude Kilrathi female from the temple carvings in the Prophecy intro - the art is out there but it isn't safe for work! There are a few other...

Last month, we posted some cool Hornet art by ulimann644 on DeviantArt. At the time we wondered what they were going to do next… and now we know, one of my favorite Wing Commander ship designs of all time: the original Fralthi! Fralthi-class Carrier (DeviantArt[/url]) Ulimann644 also...

Yes, the blocker was not anything with the game engine but the fact that the Lexington's design needed to be locked down earlier than most ships in oder to design and build the sets. They'd settled on a reuse of the Victory before the first batch of storyboards were delivered in February '95...

Here's a piece of fan art I never expected to see: a chibi version of the Kilrathi priestess from Secret Missions 2 by DeKreteOne on DeviantArt! More of this kind of fun, please! Here's her original appearance from 1991: -- Original update published on July 13, 2025

Greetings WingNuts, The Wing Commander movie club has traveled to distant galaxies and lived through some of the most deadly warfare in human history… and now we can add surviving high school in Los Angeles to our list of accomplishments! Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a movie that never quite...