Identification of Confed's Bar Food

2024-03-27It's time once again for... SNACKS OF THE TERRAN CONFEDERATION! The famed TCS Victory's rec room always has popcorn on the tables...

WC4 Remastered Mod Enhances Planetary Missions & Solicits Assitance

2024-03-26We've got a delicious update today on WC4 Remastered. Pedro reports that the team is digging deep into the ground missions of the game. As is usual on a project like this, once they started peeling back the layers of the original, things got complicated.

Confederation Mod Adds Expanded Raptor Art & 3D Hornet Cockpit

2024-03-25We've got a couple of exciting updates on the Confederation engine makeover for Wing Commander 1. AllTinker shared his latest Raptor side art. He's also created a very cool 3D bubble of the Hornet cockpit to explore potential new features that can take advantage of this.

Make Mine a Double

2024-03-24Oh, did your version of Wing Commander III not have a mission where you escort two minelayers?Lord Thrakhath sacrificed an entire Bhantkara carrier group in a feint at Torgo as part of his strategy to trap the Behemoth. Here: Thunderbolt 300 escorts a pair of dedicated minesweepers as part of the effort to cover the weapon’s approaches.

Space Sim First Look: Squadron: Mercenaries

2024-03-23Goge stopped by to share a very cool space sim tech demo that he's been working on lately. It's called Squadron: Mercenaries and he's got some very lofty goals in mind! The core portion starts as a traditional Wing Commander style sim, but there are larger secondary element planned as well.

Wing Commander 3 Ports Side-By-Side

2024-03-22I'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!

Get the Heck Out of Dodger

2024-03-21AD 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?

GOG Spring Sale Discounts Wing Commander Series by 71%

2024-03-20GOG.com is starting to rollout their annual Spring Sale, and Wing Commander has gotten a nice price cut across the board. In order to keep things interesting, rather than a straight 75% off each title, Prophecy, Armada and Privateer 2 are each marked down 65%.

Hellcat Leaps to the Third Dimension

2024-03-19Nightball06 has been on a load road to go from 2D sketches to 3D model. After a couple years refining the design, the digital representation is nearly complete. He's spent a lot of time working to get the shape close to the original, but one area that he has taken some artistic liberties on were the engines.

Learning About the Bray Twins’ Real Life Counterparts

2024-03-18Thanks 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...

It Is Green (Happy St. Patrick's Day!)

2024-03-17If you kind of squint, it looks a little bit like a clover...This is a repurposing of Music_Guru's green Dralthi, which is itself inspired by SNES Secret Missions' green Salthi/Jalthi.

Exploring Kilrathi Emblems

2024-03-16A lot of people (one guy on Discord) have been asking what the correct emblem for the Empire of Kilrah is. So let’s have a thread and find out!Wing Commander I has matching emblems for factions on every ship.

Battle of the Armada Introductions

2024-03-15Today we have a jazzed up version of the Armada intro from Retrobear Diskette Quest. There's a little bit of DOSBox scaling happening that supposedly makes it look better at higher resolutions, but the visuals aren't the draw here. It also has some "Roland MT-32 emulation" turned on, and I do hear the extra notes associated with that!

The Nephilim Manta: From Concept to Execution

2024-03-14Aligned 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...

Check out These Collectible Portuguese WC Games

2024-03-13Dominus of Exult has some more cool collectibles to show off! He's managed to track down a pair of Wing Commander games localized in Portuguese. These rare copies of WC4 and Privateer 2 have a bit of warping and tearing damage, but it's still wonderful that they were saved.

Wing Commander at 25

2024-03-12The 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 good (it was not) and what it means to me (I love it dearly) and I don't need to relitigate any of that today.

Examining the Colors of Academy Pilots and Their Ships

2024-03-11I 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...

A Closer Look at the Original 12 Cadets of Wing Commander Academy

2024-03-10The 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!

New Prinze Autograph Offer Includes Wing Commander Options

2024-03-09LeHah spotted a new Wing Commander autograph opportunity. SWAU is offering Freddie Prinze Jr signatures via its website for the next month. There are a lot of photo choices associated with his role in Star Wars Rebels, but it's nice to see that they have five WC Movie options as well.

Richard Riehle Reflects on Iconic Office Space Role

2024-03-08Today we have an interview from the Hollywood Reporter with the cast of Office Space on its 25th Anniversary. Richard Riehle has a lot to say, and I thought it was fun to hear his perspective on various things even if there's no direct connection to Wing Commander. I was surprised to see that Mr.