This month we're going to look back at some actual Saturday morning cartoons! That's because Ellen Guon Beeman (then Ellen Guon), who wrote for Wing Commander II and all four of the early expansions, got her start in Hollywood writing episodes of some of the shows we loved as kids. I'm excited...

They're pretty insignificant at this point but it might be worth listing the Gametap releases in the history too.

This is really well done! Absolutely wonderful.

Not to be outdone by Electronic Arts' Wing Commander III 30th Anniversary Edition and Chris Roberts' Squadron 42, Ultima creator Richard Garriott has also popped up in this news cycle! Video Games Chronicle reports both the previously revealed word that he has informed Electronic Arts he intends...

This, too, shall pass. A big reason these dorks are targeting nostalgia IPs so significantly is because it's high reward/low risk. The owner of the Pepsi Man IP isn't going to sue the guy knocking him off, but a million people are going to thumbs up a headline about the game they loved as...

Chris Roberts' Cloud Imperium Games held a special event to allow fans to play the first five hours of Squadron 42 this past weekend an then followed their great reports on the state of the game by releasing an astounding new trailer and announcing that it would be available on Steam! Check it...

I believe it's only called a meson blaster in behind the scenes stuff, they never say it in a cutscene or anything. If you check out the concept sketches at the top of this update it's labeled there!

Yeah, we shouldn't have some blanket ban on AI. There is absolutely valuable work being done on it... we're just in a very particular time right now where there's also a lot of useless work and outright scamming being done, too. Those parts will fade away, but we've got to be vigiliant for now...

“ And 'genuine'? In what respect? ” Sorry I should explain this better: the way written language works is that the sentences typically go in linear order, so you can often find more information relating to the one you read in the words that follow it!

MESON BLASTERS! Now that I have your attention, let's talk about sex. The retro gaming community is a many-splendored thing, endlessly producing fascinating content covering games and history you've never heard of. Case in point, this hour-long retrospective on a 1997 adult FMV video game called...

tlwr: Electronic Arts has announced a new "30th Anniversary" version of Wing Commander III with cutscenes recovered from the original high quality tapes created when filming the game. This is now making the rounds in the mainstream gaming news! On Saturday, October 11, Electronic Arts producer...

I'll stick up for it, too! I actually used it for quick reference pretty regularly. It was one of those sites I "knew". (Edited to add - we'd be happy to host it if that would help.)

Here's a brief look back at mentions of two cancelled Wing Commander games. We've got a brief appearance by Wing Commander II for the Sega Genesis (later SNES) in the March 1994 issue of Gamefan. We suspect this is a stock PC screenshot rather than specific to this version. And then we have the...

There's stunning news out of the Portland Retro Gaming Expo tonight as a panel on game preservation has revealed that Electronic Arts has found tapes containing high quality source video for Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger! Here's a BlueSky post from an attendee, solon's haunted library...

Ah that's what I meant, I didn't realize! Great work.

Thought of one you could consider - showing the appropriate skybox objects for each system.

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 The Terminator (1984) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post...

The Wing Commander movie club's informed opinion is… that The Phantom Menace holds up pretty well. It actually seems fairly different watching it a quarter of a century on: what once felt like wall to wall CG is actually endless practical shots. Stuff that felt like it flew by at the time is...

This Drayman is old enough to drink :D

Here's a June-July 2001 issue of Teen People that catches up with Freddie Prinze Jr. that's complete with a two-page pinup of the superstar actor. We're highlighting it only for his single quote about the Wing Commander movie, which is an idea that has perhaps been expressed nowhere else, ever...