After 20+ years - Wikipedia tried to push the spelling in 2001, along with "Moskva" (also a Wing Commander carrier!), gave up and then retried again a few years ago.

Is it true that the Morningstar was originally developed for Strike Commander? It sounds like an urban legend but I haven't been able to find anything about it I did find this though which seems worth posting again:

Thanks for that. I always thought it was a shame that P2 was released right before 3D acceleration support became standard. I-War used the same engine but had 3Dfx support, as of course did Prophecy around the same time. The engine is quite good and it's been open sourced but IIRC we don't have...

Years ago I bought a book by Paul Steed on low-poly modeling (it was when he was still alive so it must have been almost fifteen years ago.) I remember wondering at the time whether it would ever be of use to anyone ever again, since at the time the trend was toward higher poly and detail...

It's still standard practice today, isn't it? But I remember reading somewhere that the art team kept having to redo the engine models over and over because the ships were still too high poly. Michael Paul (sorry) Cottam seems to back that up. Maybe it was done for memory purposes? One set of...

It also resembles a swastika; not that Origin would admit that even if that was their intent (which I rather doubt). Actually, what it reminds me of is the square-sided Finnish roundel, which predates the Nazis and was painted on their planes to the end of World War II. More than the shape...

Someone―I think it was Michael Ian Cottam but it might also have been Paul Hughes―mentioned that when making the real-time ship models they had to go through several layers of optimization, culling tris and detail until they got a model the engine could work with. It also explains some technical...

Billy Zane, who got his start as part of Tom Wilson's gang in Back to the Future.

Wasn't David Warner in Titanic as well?

This is a tough one. I voted for HCl because of how important he was to the early modding projects and what an incredible technical genius he was. I still remember him posting a photo of a notebook where he scribbled down some hex values he was decoding while on vacation at the beach, as a...

Jay Anthony Franke, who voiced the main character in Deus Ex, also worked in quality assurance on the game. Warren Spector must really love his QA guys! That must have been one of the last big games where developers doubled as voice actors, though in Franke's case it was a bit different because...

Wasn't the film always fairly popular among the general public? To the extent that the "general public" even knew that it existed? That was the impression I got when the subject came up in conversation (once). I guess that's the consequence of making a niche film and targeting it towards the...

I still mutter "Turn to port and steer 2-3-0" sometimes, apropos of nothing. Will you be watching 12 O'Clock High? That seems like it would be worth it if only for the line from Gregory Peck about being "already dead".

Thanks for this. I remember the 'intell' spelling and found it a bit odd later but never knew where it came from. Was this a directive from Intel or something done voluntarily? I've had the same PC for almost fifteen years and I can still play a fair number of modern games, there's absolutely...

RIP, all of the actors are getting up there I guess. We almost never hear about dub actors, I know at least the Japanese voice for Shotglass in the MegaDrive port died some years ago (he was a big shot that voiced the original Space Battleship Yamato, among other things). Do all of the foreign...

Yeah, like I said I don't think it even counts as a criticism: the design brief was "take the Exeter and stretch it out", and it did that. I'd like to see someone try and take on that concept with modern detail, fitting it in between the Exeter and Bengal. Kind of crazy to think that when that...

15 percent are new? I find that hard to believe. Does that track with your experience? I don't understand how you could be interested in Wing Commander and never have visited this site when it's been around for 25 years and been at or near the top of search results for most of that time.

Yeah, I know what the Gettysburg is, I was there when it was first posted. I mean that I think it looks too derivative of other ships. I don't know if I can even call that a criticism because it's exactly what the artist was going for, I just feel personally that big ships should be more...

I'm a bit torn on the design used in Saga. From a distance it doesn't have a particularly distinctive shape, it looks a bit too much like someone else's sci-fi spaceship; no wonder it resembles something from another series. It looks more like a Confed ship on closer inspection but then I think...

Verhoeven's worry was in his famous words that it would look like a "flea circus", which I can understand because that CGI film I bullied you into watching came off a bit like that, and that was 15 years later. Besides that Verhoeven has an appreciation for practical effects and I imagine that...