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Yes, the idea was that Seether was operating off of the frigate (testing the flashpack)... and when it was destroyed he had to relocate to the Lexington.

Archive sites have recently preserved a new swath of gaming magazines. I found a pretty interesting general Origin preview in this issue of Computer Games Strategy Plus (February 1993)... but as I went to post about it, I got to thinking: just how much of this issue is covering games from...

I believe the CIS includes a military (perhaps the largest and most significant one) but it is not the sole military. While military and CIS are routinely used to mean the same thing there are a few pieces of lore were they aren't. Most famously the Hades description: "inhabited solely by...

You have to work pretty hard not to love Return of the Jedi… and frankly, we're not willing to do that much work; it was great! This week, we're back to World War II with Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970). Tora! Tora! Tora! is a spectacular retelling of the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United...

Today we're taking a new look at some unusual 3DO magazine advertisements from Electronic Arts. These 'high concept' pieces ran in magazines in the UK in the first half of 1995 and they are... something. But underneath that something there are some interesting Wing Commander stories! This one...

Want to challenge one of Kilrah's finest? Here's a guide to where you can find the various Kilrathi aces in the first three Wing Commander games. Wing Commander I and the 3DO port of III both have a system where aces will reappear if you miss them... up to seven times in some cases! Wing...

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Tora! Tora! Tora! which informed Chris Roberts' vision for the Wing Commander movie… and which was...

Yes, the actual game space is 3D and the in flight map is a 2D representation of it. I'm not sure if the coordinates work 1:1, though... the ones listed there are extracted from the game's system files, but it's possible there's some math that happens between the data and the implementation.

Not that I know of! It's a good bet it would've worked like the cloaking device from Wing Commander II which was already implemented in the engine--fires like a gun, draws a steady amount from your gun capacitor and prevents you from firing while it's active. End of '92, so about nine months...

Greetings WingNuts, The Wing Commander movie club certainly enjoyed Return of the Jedi! It was great to see the original version (with the original songs!) again after so many years and it's just a tremendously fun, well made movie that continues to impact pretty much every space opera to this...

Back in April 1999, a company called Showscan announced that it was developing a Wing Commander motion simulator "ride film" under license from Digital Anvil. Unfortunately, the film never materialized and no one has ever come forward to tell the story behind it… though we do know that it was in...

We received an e-mail with a question we thought was worth investigating: "I've been reading about Ultima VII: The Lost Vale and it got me thinking: were there any Wing Commander expansion disks in the works that didn't make it out? The short answer is yes, two Wing Commander addons were...

Back when we were surfing the net at 14.4k bps, the only realistic way to test drive the latest Wing Commander games was by loading it from the cover CD of a magazine. In fact, Wing Commander III's then-massive demo was the centerpiece of the very first PC Gamer cover disc! To honor that...

July 1998 issue of Femme Fatales magazine (offering "the luscious ladies of horror, fantasy and science fiction") has an interesting interview with Wing Commander III and Prophecy star Ginger Lynn Allen conducted while she was doing press for the latter game. It even features two photos of...

I can tell the author is looking at notes on cut material from our archive! It is true that the game was to include a Strakha and a cloaking device upgrade. These were pretty far along in development, they had finished the 3D models and even comissioned manual art of the Strakha and related EMP...

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Return of the Jedi which... you know Return of the Jedi, I don't need to explain this! You can find...

While putting together the recent memorial update we extracted all of Maniac's in flight comms from Special Operations 2 to include in the post. After realizing how nice it was to be able to hear those lines on demand I decided to put together a complete archive of the comms from Wing...

Greetings WingNuts, Going into the original King Kong, we weren't sure what to think. Some of the older films in our series have been pretty stodgy by today's standards (looking at you, Dam Busters)... and being from 1933, King Kong was the oldest of them all. But we were pleasantly surprised...

A world desperate for good news (or at least news that isn't awful) is going pope crazy this week as the Catholic Church has named Leo XIV as the latest spiritual leader in their centuries-long tradition. Of course this has prompted many in the media to ask the big question: what's going on with...

If you're looking for vintage equipment, anything Thrustmaster was the creme de la creme for flight games at the time. For most of the DOS games I go with a Thrustmaster F-22 Pro stick and F-16 TQS throttle. The F-22 Pro (1996) is the final evolution of Thrustmaster's F-16 FLCS line of sticks...