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I've updated my Wing Commander playlists on Spotify, just for you! First up: the movie score plus the licensed, diegetic tracks. Second, the Wing Commander Prophecy OST recreated from pieces. It's getting closer with each update... we're just lacking, you know, the Cobalt 60 tracks...

The recent Heritage Auction of material from Planet Hollywood included several Wing Commander costumes! Which means there are some great high resolution photos to share. Here's Mark Hamill's flight suit from Wing Commander IV: And here is Malcolm McDowell's Black Lance uniform from the...

Happy Easter! -- Original update published on March 31, 2024

Here are a couple of fun treats from poking through an archive of Computer and Video Games magazines. This review of Wing Commander SNES has a neat ship identification chart (where they've colored in the ships)! Here's a June 1994 announcement for a Genesis port of Wing Commander II...

It's time once again for... SNACKS OF THE TERRAN CONFEDERATION! The famed TCS Victory's rec room always has popcorn on the tables... The Grey Ghost, TCS Lexington, has little bowls of peanuts all around the lounge. ... and finally the megacarrier Midway has a megasnack: big cheeze...

For a few years I've been sharing random Wing Commander deep dives on Twitter. There's nothing I love more than taking some specific question or subject that maybe no one cares about and then looking at it as thoroughly as I can… and Twitter has always fit like a glove for that because it lets...

Oh, did your version of Wing Commander III not have a mission where you escort two minelayers? -- Original update published on March 24, 2024

I'm comparing the UI in different Wing Commander III ports! Here's the callsign selection screen on the PC, 3DO, PlayStation and Macintosh. "Maverick" is my entry except on the PSX version which plugs in BLAIR automagically! Here's the Victory's main menu on the PC, 3DO and PSX. The...

AD reminded me that Blair's callsign is DODGER in Kevin Droney's first draft script for the Wing Commander movie. I... don't hate it? The scene where they all explain their callsigns is fun, too: -- Original update published on March 21, 2024

Thanks for the background, friends. Of course, I was curious for Wing Commander-related reasons. Specifically, I was fascinated to see the names of the Kray twins because... of Privateer 2's Bray twins: Reggie Bray is the guy who is selling Uncle Kashumai's religious artifact. For that...

Aligned Peoples’ Manta-class heavy fighter. Initial concept by Mark Vearrier, finished concept sketch by Syd Mead... Initial mesh blockout and then Alias "cinematic" model renders... Final in-game assets for both the standard fighter and the deadly "red Manta" bomber variant...

Thinking about the Privateer 2 pirate factions today. Do their VDU images match the lore? I think so! Chirichan - cyborgs Jincilla - hackers & small time criminals Kiowan - new age hippies Papogod - mutants The official guide has two that aren’t in the final game, too: an evil Crow T...

The somewhat amorphous length of a generation is, give or take, about twenty-five years. This means that as of today, the Wing Commander movie is a generation old… and, it follows, so are those of us that once eagerly anticipated its coming. I've written extensively about whether or not it was...

I have watched Wing Commander Academy hundreds of times but I somehow never noticed that the pilot helmets are color coded. They nominally match the Scimitars: blue for Maverick, red for Maniac, purple for Archer, etc. It looks like they're forgotten or wrong a LOT... just like the ship...

The Wing Commander Academy press kit says that there were twelve cadets transferred to the Tiger's Claw. Can you name them all? Alright, let's see if we can find them! We're looking for the original twelve cadets transferred to the Tiger's Claw's command school. So Victoria/Viking here and...

I added a WCpedia page for the Wing Commander II Demo with all kinds of neat history: -- Original update published on March 5, 2024

Super cool news: Christian Klein discovered a piece of Wing Commander ship art previously unrecorded by history! Check out this cool silhouette art from the cover of the Hebrew translation of the Wing Commander II manual! It's done in the same style as the "World War II" silhouettes in the...

Tonight’s little project: a spreadsheet of all the ship graphics that appear in Privateer 2’s booth and which palette they use! Find the full link here (second tab). -- Original update published on March 3, 2024

Fresh off the boat from Australia! I love weird compilations so much. -- Original update published on March 1, 2024

Here's a quick graphic showing the known service dates for Confed fighters from the games (2654 and after); as you can see, it's largely not a case of designs replacing each other between WC1-3! -- Original update published on February 29, 2024