Sometimes you just luck into a sheet of game elements that looks great arranged together. Case in point: these two collections showing all the commodities in Privateer and Privateer 2: The Darkening. The commodity art is actually a pretty special part of the Wing Commander universe because it's...

It looks like Mac isn't the only person working with the Excalibur right now! A DeviantArt user named Euderion has posted a pretty great new render of another take on the ship! You can view the original post here. Be sure and check out their profile, they've done lots of great work in other...

Everything I've played has been great; they take the ports of new stuff pretty seriously. I haven't played Indiana Jones yet (I want to!) but I have been having a fine time with Star Wars Outlaws which feels just like the Xbox version. Old stuff works great and better than the original Switch...

I have a Switch 2, thanks to Chris Reid, and I love it. It's my main platform for playing new games these days, it's just so much more comfortable to use a handheld Switch instead of playing on the TV.

Awesome, thank you! I miss a lot of the more European-specific Privateer 2 nods so I'm always excited to learn a new one.

Yes you can, choose 'Start Secret Missions' when you run Wing Commander. Same executable as the base game, unlike SM2 which includes a new one.

We've posted the story of Privateer 2 author Diane Duane embarrassing a fool who didn't believe a woman could know (much less create!) a video game before. It's a classic! She recently posted photos of the Privateer 2 team jacket she was wearing at the time and it's pretty neat… just the sort of...

The World Cup is here and the whole world has football fever! Except for the United States, which has football fever (and another much worse thing). And the only cure? Obscure Wing Commander references! Luckily, Privateer 2 has exactly what we need: a football… I mean soccer… I mean "sakkuhr"...

With the recent accusations about GOG, some have asked: is there another way to buy Wing Commander games digitally? The answer is yes, but only some of the games. What was once called Origin and now... the EA App... maybe?... Electronic Arts' game platform isn't as well known as GOG or Steam but...

Secret Missions 2 has a little more meat on its bones (new ship to fly, new wingmen, a more compelling story that sets up WC2)! The original Secret Missions was actually what we'd call a preorder bonus today; it's made from leftover parts of the original game and was intended as a bonus for...

These are great! We'll get an update about them on the front page in a few days.

Ahh no I was just confused. I am pretty sure they use STOP in Babylon 5 on occasion (especially early on... in fact I think the original series pitch uses it for the header?). Serpentine is the familiar B5 font with the kind of swooshy straight lines in the letters.

The white whale! Every bit of Wing Commander II SNES that we discover is another piece of an extremely sad puzzle... but it's certainly thrilling to come across a new one! Today's example is from issue 038 of Spanish magazine Nintendo Acción where an eagle eyed reader spotted... a box for Wing...

The Babylon 5 font is Serpentine, also from the early 70s! Privateer 2 uses it in several places diegetically.

It has always been a go to "futuristic" font, so it's an easy shorthand for 'this is science fiction' (though nowadays it's more of a 'future of the past' font). I think the Armada titles are bespoke, not an existing font (or they're significantly modified from one). You can see how it...

I believe so! The font is called STOP and it's from the early 1970s: https://www.r41.it/en/post/stop-aldo-novarese-s-iconic-italian-masterpiece

Last week, news circulated that Electronic Arts had filed new trademarks for the Ultima series. A YouTube channel called Inside Games reached out to Ultima creator Richard Garriott to see if he knew what was going on. He didn't, but he did mention something he's been theorizing about for quite...

Bioforge is another one but I'm not sure there's a solid date for it. The manual uses some totally different dating system for everything. But it has the shuttle from Super Wing Commander!

Yeah, I think that's a constant with trying to measure any kind of 'first'... and no matter where you draw the line, it's never really satisfying or interesting to have that title. I'm sure someone else was using 3DS for games before Wing Commander II... but there's a story behind that which is...

Awesome! Now figure out how to work in the real world parts of the later Ultimas (Ultimae?). 6, 7 and 9 at least all start in present day in the real world.