New Vega Strike Released Today

Both Vega Strike and Vega Trek have released a new release today. The Vega Strike release (0.4.1) has been filled with art from Howard Day, a professional game artist who likes to style his art in a similar manner to that in Prophecy. You will probably enjoy the rlaan or human fighters-- :-) The interface has been redone and much of the code was rewritten from scratch. The stars are garnered from the NASA data and you can see the familiar star positions if you end up visiting Sol.

Old Chris Roberts Interview Resurfaced

TC dug up an old interview at Salon.com that talked with Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts at the time of the launch of the Wing Commander movie. I think it's one we originally missed. If not, it's been nearly five years since the article was published so most people should find it an interesting read. Part of what makes it stand out is its position in time for Roberts. In mid 1999 he was still with Digital Anvil and working on Freelancer, but he talks about his love of movies. As time would progress, Roberts would leave DA to exclusively make movies. He's currently executive producer of the upcoming Punisher film.

Besides "Wing Commander" sequels, are there other movies you'd like to direct?
Definitely. I don't think anyone's done a great fantasy film yet. I hope "Lord of the Rings" turns out really well -- I'm actually quite jealous of ["Rings" director] Peter Jackson. I love swashbuckling and sword fighting, like "Zorro," and I love World War II. [Directing] a "Saving Private Ryan" kind of thing would be cool. I'd like to not get pigeonholed as the guy who does science-fiction stuff.