Just an Easter egg!

Some years ago, Andi Green found a great Wing Commander Easter egg in Ultima Underworld. This weekend, I decided I wanted to get some screenshots and figure out exactly where the Kilrathi graffiti is located. And thanks to Pix's save game archive, doing that wasn't too difficult! The graffiti is...

A few weeks ago, we reported that Saffron Burrows, Wing Commander's Angel, would be guest starring in an upcoming episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The episode in question turned out to be the season four premiere, Valles Marineris. We won't spoil it more than we have to, but it's a...

The Little Mermaid wasn't our usual sort of movie but it would be hard to argue that it wasn't both a fun and artful movie. This week, Democracy is again dead because we're following the club's birthday boy rules and letting ace-1 choose from the movie queue! And he has, perhaps predictably...

We need a doctor! That's because today we thought it would be fun to look at the medical samples the TCS Midway intercepts from the Nephilim in Wing Commander Prophecy. It's the scene right before T'lan Meth E2 where Lt. Cmdr. Finley explains to Casey that the samples show "single nucleus...

They continued to build new models of Rapiers, we just didn't fly then in Wing Commander III. Confed is not constantly changing its fighters, we're just seeing different theaters operating different types. We see new Rapiers thirty years later in Arena!

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 Little Mermaid (1989) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement...

The YouTube video is the Origin Museum tape we posted some years back. Same transfer, they just downloaded it from the CIC and uploaded it to YouTube.

I've heard a lot about how AI is going to let people that can't think their way out of a paper back make incredible video games and create the remasters of their dream and so on and so on. I've been told repeatedly it'll be so easy to do things like play Super Wing Commander or Arena thanks to...

Wing Commander fans love making maps… and we're no exception! I thought it would be fun to go through Wing Commander Academy and create a little 'atlas' showing all the systems and their features (planets, moons, jump points and so on) that we visit across the run of the show. And it was fun...

Last year, Shaggy created a pair of familiar corvettes in No Man's Sky. Now he's back with another ship! This time he's recreated the Errant-class merchantman, aka the Diligent from the Wing Commander movie! If there's one Wing Commander movie ship design that's not controversial, it's the...

It's an interesting thing to consider! In a fan project, designs are praised for their familiarity. A battleship that looks like the Wing Commander III destroyer, an escort carrier that looks like the Victory and so on. In a professional game, it's the exact opposite: any of these would be seen...

It's from the Wing Commander III novel. The only description is: "A ship took form on the viewscreen, slightly larger than Victory but similar in configuration. It was one of the latest models of escort carrier, but its sleek, modem lines were marred by battle damage." So you can see how they...

I've always tried to make it a point to claim Origin FX for the Wing Commander community :D Those Ultima fans don't know what they're missing! We've got a pretty comprehensive WCPedia section on Origin FX and it's WC-related modules: https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Origin_FX

Want a closer look at Decker's bazooka/rifle from the game? After starring in Wing Commander IV it went on to appear on Star Trek Voyager... and now resides in the private collection of our own Chris Reid! -- Original update published on April 3, 2012

We love when spaceships suddenly appear! We recently spotted a Bluesky user named Admiral Fluffy posting a pair of VERY impressive 3D-printed Kilrathi fighters. Check 'em out! -- Original update published on July 26, 2026

I named that one for Star*Soldier! It's the purpose-built escort carrier that appears in the Wing Commander III novel--the class of the TCS Eagle (see, birds).

America is currently going through a completely normal one that has somehow turned a scammy, botched pool repair into actual live protests in favor of algae. We have no special message here but we do want to report that Wing Commander fans CAN safely root for algae… ... because it flies on...

Mac has followed up his Excalibur work with some new renders of the entire Confederation fleet! He's posted the first one widely and others are available on his Patreon. Sounds worthwhile! -- Original update published on July 23, 2026

But a Pentium 4 isn't old, those just came out... right?! :) (This is super cool! Have fun!)