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Could be! If I had to lore it I'd make it the insignia of the Border Worlds Joint Planetary Defense Force, the group that coordinated militias during the war and eventually became the UBW military. Edited to speculate about the logo: I think that's a yes in the case of the UBW logo and a no for...

I think there was another circus going on here that helped shape all this but it's one that's harder to qualify with old press. As fans we were worried about what universe the game took place in but the drama on the development (and executive) side was a lot more tied to whether or not it was an...

The topic of Wing Commander IV's texture files recently came up and a question came up: what's that spiky logo on the side of the Vindicator? If it's intended to be the Border Worlds logo, why is it so different from the circular 'phoenix' seen elsewhere? The answer is that it's a roundel...

One of the most rousing debates in the history of the Wing Commander fandom is over Privateer 2: The Darkening's name. Many remember that the game was announced as 'The Darkening' and only became a Privateer game close to its release. We aren't here to relitigate the debate over whether that was...

A Reddit user named BackpackTwo recently posted something pretty interesting to the r/wingcommander subreddit: a photo of some costumes from Wing Commander Prophecy! They explained: "I worked at Origin in the late 90's around the launch of WC Prophecy so I had a few pieces of memorabilia that i...

There are but it's a bit of a mess! I've collected every version of each cutscene we have here: https://www.wcnews.com/wcpedia/Holovids_-_Privateer_2:_The_Darkening Basically, there's a lot of better footage that has been recovered from tapes or the director's 25th anniversary linear cut...

This is a fascinating little discovery that is about thirty years in the making: a previously unknown promotional album that includes music from Wing Commander III and several other Origin games! It's called Electronic Arts Music Sampler Volume Two and it was produced in 1995 to promote EA's...

Yeah! I'm very excited for this one.

Exciting news for one of our sister communities: Electronic Arts has released a mountain of Command and Conquer material for fans to explore including source code, modding access and never-before-seen footage of games while they were in development! You can read all of the details in their...

The Wing Commander movie club has visited space and attempted to scream; results pending! This week, we're going to be taking another space voyage with the 1972 science fiction film Silent Running. You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along. Silent Running is an...

Actor Christopher Walken recently made headlines when he revealed in an interview that he did not watch streaming video and didn't even own a cell phone. Well, this November 1995 Computer Game Review interview seems to suggest that's nothing new--here he says he's never even seen a CD-ROM (after...

That seems reasonable to me; black projects would be the last ones to be killed in this situation... since there's limited or no public oversight saying it has to happen.

I don't think they have enough Wing Commander source code to do something like this. Maybe Wing Commander Prophecy!

Some kind of warship! Fleet Action says "It was not so much a super carrier along the lines of suspected Kilrathi design, but more a Stealth, heavily armored battlewagon with upgraded shielding that was proof against medium-yield antimatter warheads. There were rumors as well of a super weapon...

Probably not the tank specifically but they share the same reference to the Book of Revelation ("I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.") which they're taking to mean that the tank/ship (or on the Planet of the Apes, bomb) is the ultimate final weapon.