I guess you could say that Double Impact really had… an impact on us! Hah hah no I'm actually writing this before movie night and I still don't even know what Double Impact is about. But I bet we will have loved it by the time you read this. Our next movie is one that's familiar to a lot of us...

Published by Origin, written by Beth Loubet and the game's QA team! It's a neat little book. Here's a scanned copy on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Wing_Commander_Privateer_Playtesters_Guide/page/n1/mode/2up

She has actually had a pretty fascinting life since her years acting. She's put together all sorts of artistic and do-gooder things, many relating to the middle east.

That's noted and explained in the Behind the Screens section of that page.

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 month we're looking at a two hour block of music videos that all connect back to...

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 Jaws (1975) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The...

Congratulations! That's great flying. Secret Missions 2 was done as a sort of prequel to Wing Commander II... I'll be interested to see what you think of that one! (... uh but don't get too excited about seeing more Firekkans...)

I think it's pretty important not to count out nostalgia. If you're going to make this work, you have to find a way to harness that. Because the very tough question that any pitch has to answer is: why is this a Wing Commander game? That is to say: why isn't it a Mass Effect game? Or a Star Wars...

FYI, we are not picky about this stuff - don't worry too much about posting things that have already been said. I'd rather people be excited about Wing Commander than save a few bits! :D

It's in a similar place to Star Wars right now... the obvious way to make money, bring back Mark Hamill and comapny to do a high quality FMV-style game, just isn't possible anymore. So everything else seems like you're leaving money on the table, which is something c-suites hate. If you give me...

They're probably both derived from the Franz Joseph spacedock! Although circular space stations have been around since the 1920s (and were popularized by Dr. von Braun in the 1950s). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_wheel_space_station

I saw someone describe him as a person that didn't take themselves seriously but that did take their job very seriously. Seems like a good way to live to me! (I do remember Earth 2! They ran it after seaQuest here and I loved that block of programming.)

Tragic news to report today: veteran Wing Commander actor Tim Curry has passed away at age 80. Curry is known around the world for his endless acting credits, which included everything from Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show to the crazed Russian leader famously ranting about...

Welcome aboard! I am excited to see your costume!

Yes! I believe the Mega CD manual is the only official reference that's 100% correct to the game. Here's an article I did a while back comparing the different sources: https://www.wcnews.com/news/2026/02/19/military-ribbons-of-the-wing-commander-universe-part-one

Electronic Arts has those. I explored licensing new books through Chris a few years back (since they had put out the HarperCollins stuff for the movie) but the lawyers came back and said we'd need EA's involvement and that that wasn't going to happen.

Electronic Arts has been sold to a Saudi Arabia-based investment group and it isn't clear what that means for our beloved Wing Commander IP. But according to an article on GamesRadar it could mean that Wing Commander and other unused IPs will be sold, licensed or adapted as mobile games. They...

Everyone loved Jaws! It's a movie you can watch endlessly that doesn't seem to fade back into its era. The Wing Commander connection may have been slight but it was a lot of fun to watch with friends. This week, we've got another birthday selection and it's not a movie I'm familiar with at all...

ODVS has written a pretty fascinating article titled "Room with a View" all about the technologies he uses to help increase the resolution the gameflow assets from the original game. That's the part 'inside' the carriers: the backgrounds, the animated character 'gumps' and so on. They're all...

Sivar bless the Sega nerds! Dedicated Sega archivists have recently released a perfect 600 dpi scan of the Mega CD version of the Wing Commander manual on the Internet Archive! Mega CD games (the Japanese version of Sega CD games) came in simple jewel cases and so their manuals were small...