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I think that's an AI-generated article; the prose is ridiculous and the basic facts just aren't right. For example, there are no console ports of System Shock yet...

Apologies for the typos; this is one of those things I just kind of casually posted to Twitter in real time and then Chris converted it into an update. There was, at least on paper, a second Privateer addon (and a second Tactical Operations)... but I don't believe either ever got close to...

Hello! On the creative side, the policy was that anything published could/should be referenced by anything else. We were still following this on Wing Commander Arena in 2006 (mostly at my insistence!) but if they decided to do a big budget Wing Commander reboot today then the team involved...

Did you ever wonder why Privateer's missions go from series 5 to 7 in the game's internal numerical sequencing? Series 6 was cut pretty late in the process... but now we've found an earlier version of the game's script that includes them! After finding the derelict, you take the gun to the ship...

Sprite sheets for explosions in Origin FX’s Armageddon mode (Left) versus Privateer (Right). I had not realized FX shipped nine months before Priv! You can see a few frames were cut in that time: Here are the other four explosions in case anyone else can ID them. Sergorn says the third...

Like most people, I can't walk down the street without someone stopping me and demanding to know: is System Shock set in the Wing Commander universe? Buddy, I tell them, no it isn't. But there's a lot of fun backstory getting there... (System) Shocking but true: the game DID begin...

A bit bigger, I think - Fleet Action describes the frontier between the Confederation and the Empire as being 1,500 light-years across.

It's no trouble at all, in fact I have been chugging away at exactly this project when I can focus my brain on it. I've been putting together a properly cited list of release dates but I'm not past the base games yet. It's a bit of a challenge because of how games were released back then... you...

Drooling over these photos of Wing Commander III's costume shop. I wish we had high resolution images of all those Kilrathi sketches! Massive kudos to Dundradal for figuring out that one of their references is the PLANET OF THE APES SOUNDTRACK! Thought I found one in the prop book...

I am having trouble digging up a source immediately but I believe September 23 is correct and can clearly establish that October 9 is wrong. Google's Usenet archive is unfortunately very painful to dig through but even a quick search finds people playing Privateer as early as September 27 (and...

Yeah, it's one of the BBS missions. The "Marvinius" is shipping "Illudium-Q36".

What connects the Terran Confederation and the Tri-System? A love of Duck Dodgers, of course! egr10 on the forums pointed out that ESK stands for Earth Shattering Kaboom and I feel like such an doofus because I hadn't figured that out in 32+ years. -- Original update published on...

A stately conductor stands before an orchestra three rows deep. The planet Venice, the Kilrathi capital of the Vega Sector, looms overhead. He raises his baton… From the very first visual of the very first game, the deep connection between music and Wing Commander was clear… even to PC...

The Deluxe vinyl pressing of the WING COMMANDER score has launched! As of this writing, the project has hit almost $3,000, 19% of the total goal. That's a great start, but we'd like to see it higher. Stay tuned for more background and plans for how you can join in on celebrating the campaign in...

I know this is more than a decade late, but in case anyone anywhere is searching: SULAKO is in the SOS mission "CIS Shuttle 013AZL". It's the name given to the shuttle... but it explodes before you can target it!

I think you nailed it exatly, Lucas is on record as having heavily based tne trench run on the 1955 version of The Dam Busters... and then Wing Commander stole it straight from Star Wars. (And of course Dam Busters was a true story, so it all goes back to Operation Chastise!)

It would be pretty rare for a magazine preview to say that they hate the upcoming game, though! It would've be a quick way to be not invited back to EA's E3 show. :D

One of my favorite things to discover is early previews for Privateer 2: The Darkening, especially those from the press junkets that occurred before the game added a '2' or even a 'Privateer' to the title. Today we've collected two more of these pieces for the archive. Privateer 2 had so much...

We've come across a small treasure today: extracts from a 1994 textbook about game development called The Magic of Interactive Entertainment by Mike Morrison. The book includes a lot of introductory information about building games (some of which is still very accurate!) and an entire chapter...

This is a super cool idea and I'd love to see more! I know a number of the systems in Gemini are supposed to be based on particular familiar stars, I can dig up some notes about it later. The familiar WCU map is said to be an "Akwende Projection" that shows jump lines rather than actual star...