Joysticks This, Markets That

Escapist Magazine has posted another article about the state of space combat sims. It also weaves in a bunch of info on fan projects in work today. The author talked with several ongoing projects, but there's a big lean towards "open source" undertakings. Unfortunately it doesn't get into any of the impressive Wing Commander mods out there today that are pointedly closed source or that have achieved great success without access to any type of source material to begin with. To top it off, the article only mentions Wing Commander Arena's third person mode in a section on first/third-person POVs, and it skips over Arena's creative environments right after talking about how boring open space is in most games today.