Over the weekend, we released our first ever Privateer 2 saved game collection. Now we have the very first fruits of that labor: the first release of a Privateer 2 correspondence archive! We've attempted to collect screenshots of all the e-mails and diary entries associated with the...

Mac is back with another lovely piece of Wing Commander art! He posted the image below to BlueSky last week. He has titled it, naturally, "Just the Tip". Stunning! I bet it would even make a great lock screen in spite of it's orientation. It's exciting to see modern, professional composition...

US vs Europe printing! EA had a nice little civil war going between their marketing departments in the mid-90s and you ended up with a bunch of split releases like that. Content should be identical (except there are French and German language versions of the colored CD one... and the German one...

... but they are fun. Since the dawn of time, crummy plastic "ID badges" have been sold at science fiction conventions. They aren't really props, they aren't really well made or well designed or useful for anything... but they're such a mood, such a part of the culture. They're the kind of...

I pointed Paul Hughes to this thread over on BlueSky. But I know using message boards in 2026 is pretty daunting, I am sure he'd answer questions if you want to skeet at him!

Well, that might have been better than the actual Privateer 3 story with the Steltek time machine :D

It isn't in the list of cities mentioned in the book! Pittsburgh is the closest city to DC that's hit.

The United States government is busy trolling its citizens with nonsensical construction in Washington DC so we thought it would be a good time to look a little further ahead in the city's culture. You see, Wing Commander III establishes something that seems increasingly unlikely thirty years...

Here's a neat little detail that I had never noticed before until last night: the canteen vet in the Wing Commander IV introduction is actually wearing a Wing Commander III 'combined forces' patch on his shoulder! Maybe I'm just oblivious but I never picked up on this one! It's a neat way to...

How big is Crius, anyway? We've been working on the upcoming Tri-System atlas for the past week or two and one thing I noticed was that there's a very specific diameter listed for each of the planets and moons in the Tri-System… so I thought it might be fun to put together a chart that compared...

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 Birdcage (1996) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post...

This rules!

What ever happened to Starfield? When Bethesda launched their own take on Star Citizen with the option to build out your own ships we figured we'd be seeing endless attempts to recreate Wing Commander's classic designs... but in reality they've been few and far between. It's too bad, we could...

Isn't it funny how actors tend to show up on TV right when they happen to have a new movie out? No, of course that's because they take part in press junkets sponsored by the companies that are producing those films. In the mid-1990s, Electronic Arts invested heavily in having their Wing...

If you have space, that would work! You can message me directly with the link and I'll move them over.

That's great! You can certainly use them, and I'd be happy to host them on the wcnews server if anyone else wants them.

Is version 16 the initial UK retail release? There's a pre-release press build that might be worth comparing some of this stuff on: https://www.wcnews.com/chatzone/threads/privateer-2-the-darkening-beta-available-august-18-2024.32031/

I edited saves to offer them all. I'm pretty curious how they work now, though! I'm going to try an unedited playthrough and measure what I get next. That's a very good question! I... must not have run into the bug at all. The only mission I absolutely couldn't complete at all was New Crius...

Thank you very much for posting, I am sure everybody around here appreciates hearing this as much as I did. The older I get the better I understand that it's the people that matter in all of these, so I'm always so happy to hear a story like this. Keep Wing Commandering! We'll be here... and...

We may not be able to prevent sickness, death, horror, war, etc. anymore... but we sure can make a useful robot for removing copyrighted material from YouTube. And the one Universal Studios uses to go after Wing Commander Academy material on YouTube seems to be top notch! It has removed all...