We were pleasantly surprised by how many people ultimately enjoyed Romeo + Juliet… including my mom, who joined the group this week! And I will be remiss if I don't offer one final happy birthday to Patterned, who chose the film. It's a massively stylistic adaptation of Romeo + Juliet that...

Baen's wonderful series of Wing Commander novels sadly died with False Colors in 1999. Baen's deal with Origin was that they could continue to publish the books in perpetuity… as long as they released one each year. With the series not in active development and the central author Bill Forstchen...

Some intrepid archivist recently uploaded what seems to be a full run of famed gentleman's magazine Playboy. So of course we've done the hard work for you and pulled out every page where Wing Commander is mentioned! You can come up with your own 'reading it for the articles' joke here. July...

Here's a blast from the past: a July 1999 Wing Commander movie commercial... for the home video release at Blockbuster Video! Now that's good nostalgia. The movie came out on VHS and DVD on July 6, 1999 so that's probably specifically when this aired. Come for the CG bombardment of a Blockbuster...

The Wing Commander movie club had a pretty good time getting all cultured-like with Romeo+Juliet. This week, we opted to vote for a thriller and the winner of that poll is a classic summer movie: Jaws (1975)! It's one of those movies that's thoroughly baked into our culture… but my experience...

True! Loxx is not a commercial font but rather a freeware one adopted from Stop.

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We recently updated about an uprez'd version of one of GOG's Wing Commander wallpapers which reminded us that... these wallpapers exist in the first place? GOG created a number of 'unique' Wing Commander wallpapers when they released the games digitally and frankly we hadn't really spent much...

-- Original update published on August 11, 2011

Like those black and white Wing Commander III renders? Then you'll love... every ship in the Tri-System! -- Original update published on August 11, 2011

I don't know what this is... but it terrifies me. -- Original update published on August 11, 2011

Take a moment to thank the amazing team of men and women behind Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. Here they are, in the flesh! They are: Adam Foshko, Chris Douglas, Chris Roberts, Craig Miller, Dan Orzulak, Frank De Palma, Frank Roan, Galen Svanas, George Olziey, Kirsten Maryott, Mark...

The Wing Commander movie club had a great time with ace's birthday movie, Amadeus! (Happy birthday, ace!). It's not quite a historical movie as it is a movie that contextualizes Mozart's story for modern audiences… treating him as we would see a rock star-style musician today, so that we...

You know it when you see it, and you see it more than you expect in marketing, signage and other games: the 'Wing Commander font'. But what is that font? Well, the typeface you associate with the earlier Wing Commander games was derived from a font called Stop. It's so named because of the...

AD has made a nice little discovery! It's a Wing Commander IV preview and Mark Hamill interview from the October 1995 issue (Number 81) of VideoGames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine (real title, not made up). What's neat about this one is that it includes some set photos that we haven't seen...

For a movie that's nearly three hours long, Amadeus remains pretty compelling! This week, we will continue to ignore democracy in favor of the law of birthday boy choices. And our next birthday boy is none other than my wife Patterned! She has chosen Baz Luhrmann's highly stylized modern-day...

On August 10, 1998 we officially launched the Wing Commander Combat Information Center as part of the rollout of Wing Commander Secret Ops. And since you're still reading this, we're still here! Thanks to the wonderful community we've gathered of the years, there's nowhere I'd rather call home...

What if you could play the box? I've got to admit, I've never asked myself that question… but luckily, Exteban has! They've created a pretty cool looking animated tribute to the original Wing Commander and that great sense of potential you get just seeing Denis Loubet's wonderful artwork for the...

Here's an article that many of us likely remember: PC Gamer's October 1997 preview of Wing Commander Prophecy. This was a major info dump for fans at the time… but the lack of scanned copies of PC Gamers online for many years meant that it hasn't been available for reference. So here it is for...

We've now sourced two of them to this Human Histology Photo CD: https://web.archive.org/web/20130807101126/http://www.indigo.com/photo_cds/human_histology/Parotid-Serous.html#.UgIdUHbP32c I suspect there's a further ancestor that'll have more of them.