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"Welcome to the Intrepid, Colonel. I'm Lt.Sosa. You should know that ranks aren't transferable between Confed and the Union of Border Worlds, so even though we'll all informally call you Colonel and treat you as such, you're officially starting out at the bottom. I'll set you up with a login...

Wow, the last couple of years have thrown up some real gems in the exploration and 'renovation' of Wing Commander 1; WCDX, WCToolbox, the converted SM1.5, the imported WC3 textures and recreated Hellcat cockpit, and now this - the most exciting of all! I wish I had half the technical expertise...

What's interesting is that the Frigate isn't just texture assets, but is a ready to go ship that has in game stats and flies just fine. There was a WC3 mission creator from HCl, and he enabled the use of the Frigate. I remember testing it out by setting up missions where I'd sit back and watch...

Having just watched through it properly on my PC, I'm struck by how spoiler heavy that trailer was!

My phone bravely tried to run this, but the 5fps experience wasn't pretty. Ironically, this mid range smartphone has a core clock approximately 15 times faster than the 486 I first played WC3 on.

This seems as good a place as any to put this, since we're talking about past Wing Commander actors. The article's a couple of years old, but this interview on Digital Spy explains why John Rhys-Davies suddenly departed Sliders mid way through season 3. Seems he wasn't very happy with the...

Pretty much every time; full afterburners, set missiles to launch simultaneously and just as you pickle them, let rip with full guns. My head-cannon is that he ejected. Wouldn't be the first time.

The GOG versions of Wing Commander, Wing Commander II and Wing Commander III are original DOS releases, not Kilrathi Saga. They don't require Stinger's patch because the original versions don't have the same bugs that WCDX is designed to deal with.

^ I don't know if it's my bad translation, but the above article seems to call Electronic Arts a 'subsidary' of Origin. :D Maybe somebody with better French than me can confirm that I'm just a terrible translator... @PopsiclePete ? ;)

(Left page) Chris Roberts has designed, developed and produced some of the most sophisticated and inspiring games of their kind. He had three 1987 #1 bestselling games in England: "Match Day" "Wiz Adore" and "Striker's Run". Roberts was 'senior systems vice president' of Origin for eight...

Beautiful little find. Did you check to see if the floppy is still good?

I suppose that's one aspect they could have got away with completely overhauling. Completely new ranks wouldn't look out of place in 500 years time. ...but then, neither would anything else. From the clothes we'll be wearing by then to the food we eat. We could well have 'built in virtual...

To be fair, we were all guilty of buying the Orion the first time around. It's a mixture of wanting to try something new after a good deal of time with the Tarsus, and more importantly, indulging in the novelty of spending our hard earned cash on the only ship we could afford :D Can't imagine...

Yeah, aside from Hamill, he's arguably had the most successful *post* wing commander acting career. I was going to mention LOST too. He's popped up a few times - most recently I saw him playing a man trapped inside one of the twin towers during 9/11 in some kind of docu-drama. I don't recall...

Howard you have nothing to apologise for! Please take our enthusiasm for your projects as praise, and although Pioneer wasn't meant to be, your latest teasers look absolutely gorgeous and I'm sure I speak for most of us here that we can't wait to see the end product.

Looks fantastic. +1 to no multiplayer, call me old fashioned but humans can really ruin a good gameplay experience and immersion factor for me. Howard, please don't take this the wrong way, but I hope this won't be a WC Pioneer style tease. I mean no offence by this of course, it's just that...

Excellent, well done on getting it all together. Don't forget Armada, it's by no means a favourite of mine, but it certainly has a place in any Wing Commander collection. Then there's Academy, of course, and if you want to go full hoarder, grab yourself a 3DO and the two Wing Commander titles!

If it was made with real Lego, it'd probably have about the same armour rating as the real Darket.

Like many of my fellow British wingnuts, the Amiga gave me my first taste of Wing Commander. We only had an A600, I don't remember it performing that badly but I never tried it on any of the high-end Amigas. Man, it feels like a lifetime ago.

I was going to do a quick (cheaty) playthrough the find out, but the informative answer @UnnamedCharacter gave seems to make my point irrelevant. SM2 is certainly the seperate executable (as Paladin and Bossman are replaced by Jazz and Doomsday) ~ but I'm almost sure it's SM1 that brings in...