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Everyone loves Back to the Future! And the Wing Commander movie club is largely a subset of everyone. I was personally not sure how I would feel after it was so over-exposed in mid-2010s geek culture... but you can't help but smile when you're actually watching it. It's so beautifully structured...

Need a great gift for a Wing Commander fan? Wing Commander composer George Oldziey has made a little commercial showing the range of CDs and vinyl records available in his online store. The community has helped George Oldziey fund two Wing Commander orchestral albums and an extremely cool jazz...

It turns out we didn't have to wait very long for CountvonSchnaps next awesome take on a classic Wing Commander ship design! They're back with the F-104 Bearcat fighter from Wing Commander IV, one of the game's most delightful secrets (you can only fly the Bearcat if you complete a particular...

One of my strange passions is finding vintage magazines that comission their own artwork for article headers. And today we've got a good one! This is a review of Wing Commander: The Secret Missions for the SNES from Brazil's Ação Games (issue #46, November 1993). Doesn't your heart lift up just...

Here's a quick look at something most people don't think about: Wing Commander III's low graphics mode! That's right, if you set everything to low quality (even in SVGA as here) then you end up with a game that looks a lot more like X-Wing than Wing Commander! It's kind of a fun alternative to...

The greatest Maniac of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time! Director Quentin Tarantino has come for... Matthew Lillard? While promoting his new Kill Bill-based Fortnight expansion, Tarantino made several outrageous statements calling out specific actors... including...

The Digital Antiquarian is back with another article about the history of Chris Roberts' career, this time ostensibly covering the founding of Digital Anvil and the making of the Wing Commander movie. We've reported on these articles in the past with little commentary. This time, though, I...

Perhaps the less said about last week's screening of Crash the better! No, it was a pretty fascinating movie and absolutely one that made you think. Just… not one you'd tell your parents you were watching! This week, the Wing Commander movie club is going to go with something much, much safer...

There's a small but satisfying discovery for fans of tragically lost games: we've found a screenshot from the cancelled Wing Commander II port for the Sega Genesis! This screenshot showing a Broadsword targetting a Sartha (or a Drakhri?) and viewing a Grikath appears in a March 1993 Electronic...

No, the copy for the manual would've been done at the other end of the process when the game was closed to finished. The initial UK booklets are credited to Caroline Arthur, Paul Chapman, Richard Johnston and Matthew Miles Griffiths.

She talks about doing the structure with Erin in the story above!

I believe the world was all her working with Erin; the detailed lore we know today is filled out after the fact from what they developed for the needs of the script.

A BlueSky user named revenant was recently noodling around with the SNES port of Wing Commander and made a pretty exciting discovery and a cool tool for taking a closer look at the game's assets! Revenant turned ROMs of the two surviving SNES ports into in flight object viewers that let you...

She's active on BlueSky and seems to be happy to answer questions! But that's really not a standard you'd hold anyone in the game industry to... it's pretty common to not ever play a game you worked on.