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We only just reported on their Bearcat and CountvonSchnaps is already back with two more classic takes on Wing Commander ships... this time the Dralthi and the Krant from the original game! That's right, they've gone furball. I'll always argue in favor of two cockpits for the Krant... but these...

It's hard not to love It's a Wonderful Life, even if its specific vision of hope is increasingly specific to a 1940s America that we don't necessarily support today. As we noted, it's almost like a long Twilight Zone episode, complete with that same sense of our grandparents' nostalgia that that...

Isn't it great finding Wing Commander in the wild? I recently came across a BlueSky post from Tyrel Lohr about a 3D model they've been working on of a Dorkathi! Even better, though, tt turns out Tyrel Lohr has been building entire fleets! They build 3D-printable models of sci-fi ships...

Here's a fascinating preservation project: MemCards.art aims to archive all of the tiny game-specific icons that would be saved on original PlayStation memory cards. Every original PlayStation game had a 16x16 pixel icon to represent what game a particular save came from… and of course that...

We would like to wish a merry Christmas to all wingnuts that celebrate (and a happy holidays to all that don't). The Wing Commander community remains a constant source of happiness in dark times for us and I can't rightly express how much your friendship, your contributions and your general...

Here's a neat piece of ephemera: it's a gaudy advertisement that ran in the October 2008 issue of play3, a German PlayStation magazine promoting phone downloads. This was back when you could add things like ringtones, themes, backgrounds, games and other content to your pre-smart phones by...

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is Arcadia of My Youth (1982) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement...

Hah, that's great!

Xeen Music, the mind behind the wonderful Wing Commander II and Academy soundtracks released earlier this year is back with two more exhaustive Origin Systems soundtracks! No Wing Commander this time around but they have put together the definitive scores for two classic Ultimas (Ultimae?): the...

Well, that's the thing about fiction: you can think about it however you want! But you also have to recognize the framework everyone else is following; there's (obviously) never been any intent by anyone involved to have these two stories be related in any way... so it's a little weird to expect...

The blue uniforms were established for Wing Commande II, though Academy is more directly referencing Wing Commander III. A good amount of the creative team from ExoSquad went on to work on Wing Commander Academy but they were hired guns, there’s no narrative connection between the stories.

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut event happening on Discord this morning! Join us at noon EST/9 AM PST for a fun filled morning of television... that all connect to Wing Commander somehow! This time around we've got two not-so-classic Disney live action films from the mid...

They were built on set in Luxembourg although I believe two of them were later moved to Pinewood for second unit filming!

This is a reminder that we have another fun #Wingnut movie night planned on Discord this evening! The ongoing theme will be movies that are referenced by Wing Commander in some way. Tonight's film is It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the...

Oh yeah, good call!

Everyone loves Back to the Future! And the Wing Commander movie club is largely a subset of everyone. I was personally not sure how I would feel after it was so over-exposed in mid-2010s geek culture... but you can't help but smile when you're actually watching it. It's so beautifully structured...

Need a great gift for a Wing Commander fan? Wing Commander composer George Oldziey has made a little commercial showing the range of CDs and vinyl records available in his online store. The community has helped George Oldziey fund two Wing Commander orchestral albums and an extremely cool jazz...

It turns out we didn't have to wait very long for CountvonSchnaps next awesome take on a classic Wing Commander ship design! They're back with the F-104 Bearcat fighter from Wing Commander IV, one of the game's most delightful secrets (you can only fly the Bearcat if you complete a particular...

One of my strange passions is finding vintage magazines that comission their own artwork for article headers. And today we've got a good one! This is a review of Wing Commander: The Secret Missions for the SNES from Brazil's Ação Games (issue #46, November 1993). Doesn't your heart lift up just...

Here's a quick look at something most people don't think about: Wing Commander III's low graphics mode! That's right, if you set everything to low quality (even in SVGA as here) then you end up with a game that looks a lot more like X-Wing than Wing Commander! It's kind of a fun alternative to...