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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...

Years ago, we scanned a copy of what has been referred to as the Wing Commander "series bible" (here, PDF) It's a massive document that records all sorts of information about the Wing Commander series up through Wing Commander III. The copy we preserved came from the actual physical document...

Mirrored it on here for future generations: https://download.wcnews.com/files/other/Pods%20PGG%20tweak%20pack%20v2.86.zip Also, future generations: Gemini Gold exists because there was no DOSBox when the project started and it was incredibly difficult to play the real Privateer. You can play...

I suspect that was the intent! I'll add it to the pool.

Demolition Man gets our seal of approval; it's not anything brilliant but it's endlessly fun and it really compares favorably to Judge Dredd. Our next movie will be Seven Samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai is regarded as a timeless classic and a film that has had endless influence...

Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20140706064043/http://privateer.sourceforge.net/comlink/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1155 The Mediafire link still works to get the file: http://www.mediafire.com/?zep57ti7bjjvbip

I believe it's still Chris Douglas (who was on the original WC2 art team) but done later and under different circumstances. I think we're seeing a couple of different factors coming together. The Morningstar (and the Gothri) were done later rather than being reused assets like the Crossbow and...

Good call, seeing the conversation is a big help. One thing I noticed while looking up Mandarin references is that they're totally absent in some strange places. There's no mention of the group in the Wing Commander I & II Ultimate Strategy Guide or Freedom Flight. The former made me realize...

I'm sorry I only take this kind of thing from robots when they have a minigun :D

That's a good question! I think the answer will be pretty different for Jazz versus the average Mandarin (or the organization itself). With regards to the Society of Mandarins as an organization, the idea is that they are patriots in their own way. They believe that the war can't be won and so...

Very cool!!!

We recently put together an article covering the names of the different transports in Wing Commander II. A few weeks later I was surprised to discover I had received a pretty fascinating anonymous message about it: We had not written such an article because we had never noticed the connection...

This one is straight outta the Wing Commander Discord! Talented regular user Friend Computer has created three Wing Commander fonts for everyone to use. They say: "You might want to note there are minor differences to improve readability and kerning. Otherwise the fonts are free to use in...

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...