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We have some sad news to pass along today: the exOrigin Facebook group reports that veteran Wing Commander artist Craig Halverson has passed away. If Mr. Halverson's name sounds familiar it's because his excellent work graced over a dozen Origin games. We've said before but the 'Origin mystique'...

Paul Steed would be proud!

You may have seen Super Wing Commander's unusual introduction before... but have you seen the various midgames? They're pretty fascinating! The original game had a series of midgames that would play after every other system to give you the state of the war (based on how you played): Kilrathi...

Ahhhh so cool to see the Wing Commander art! I love the ships they've drawn for them.

Find a Dralthi, pick it up -- all the day you'll have good luck. Don't you love coming across new takes on Wing Commander ships where you don't expect them? Case in point: David Müller posted this neat interpretation of Wing Commander III's Dralthi IV medium fighter that just feels so much like...

The Wing Commander movie club made it through Seven Samurai! Wing Commander never had a 'team up' style story like Seven Samurai... but it ALMOST did! The sequel to Wing Commander Secret Ops was intended to involve a team of seven (six plus the player) elite mercenaries who operate outside the...

Greetings WingNuts, Last week, we watched the 1993 action classic Demolition Man. The only major connection to Wing Commander was that Chris Roberts used a track from the movie when temp tracking Wing Commander. Here's the scene in question as it appears in the movie… the music is pretty hidden...

The short answer is we can figure it out! The Wing Commander Prophecy guide's bio for Lance Casey gives us a pretty clear timeline. It that Iceman met his mother during short leave "shortly after the Firekka engagement." She finds out she's pregnant and Casey takes a one week leave "a few...

In their original print form, the original seven Baen Wing Commander novels each open with an excerpt in their front matter. It's typically an action scene from later in the book intended to sell the book to readers not familiar with the franchise. And each one of these previews had a unique...

PETSCII is a character set that was introduced for the Commodore PET in 1977 and which was used for Commodore's other PCs prior to the Amiga. And where there's a character set there are users turned artists who can do incredible things with it! In 2025, Commodore fans still compete to push the...

Howdy folks! Bob found a good candidate for movie club (Zulu, quoted in Action Stations) in another thread so I thought I'd start an official place to make suggestions. We're looking for movies that fit into one of these categories: - movies that inspired Wing Commander in some way; typically...

Good call, consider it done. We should have a thread for finding these specifically.

I think he must be gunning for everyone who was on the ship when Goddard was destroyed; Hawk would've been in OCS. (But he's still missing some people. Hunter, for instance!)

Ali's birthday is August 9 and the day before the birthday is when I'm most needed to get things ready... so it'll probably always be the week after in the future.

I'm happy to report that our second Wing Commander movie night was a success! We had a great group of fans who enjoyed seeing–and lightly roasting–The Dam Busters together this past Friday night. You can find the complete after action report later this week. So next we're going to be watching a...

Oh wow, what a wonderful get! I've got a KATT but I have never found any of the cards... and I'd kill to see them :D (I'm also sorry your posts aren't going up instantly, the system keeps asking me to approve them. I'm not sure why, I've never seen it do that before!)

We never get the story directly but you can put it together from a couple of different places! In Fleet Action, the Concordia is badly damaged in the Battle of Earth. She takes three torpedo hits by the end of the story "and was crippled, barely able to make twenty percent speed" when the book...

Alias|Wavefront (now a subsidiary of AutoDesk) is a company with a long history of developing industry-focused 3D rendering tools. Origin's FMV Wing Commander games used their PowerAnimator suite for their CG work and the team at Digital Anvil used Maya for working on the Wing Commander film...

The Video Game History Foundation recently announced that they had acquired the rights to Computer Entertainer magazine, a gaming periodical that ran from 1982 to 1990, and made it freely available online under the Creative Commons license. This is an invaluable resource for early gaming...

Before Wing Commander was ever an 'interactive movie' it already had a lead actress: Saranya Carr (2629-2688). Though she is barely ever seen, the story of Carr and her daughter Morgana is a constant in the background of Wing Commander's lore. Let's take a closer look… Saranya Carr was created...