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  • 09

    Aug

    Greetings WingNuts,

    Last week, we watched the 1993 action classic Demolition Man. The only major connection to Wing Commander was that Chris Roberts used a track from the movie when temp tracking Wing Commander. Here's the scene in question as it appears in the movie… the music is pretty hidden under the gunfight! Can you imagine the scramble scene in Wing Commander sounding like this?

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    Sully is a certified fan of both Taco Bell and Pizza Hut; dono't make him choose!

  • 10

    Aug

    Find a Dralthi, pick it up -- all the day you'll have good luck. Don't you love coming across new takes on Wing Commander ships where you don't expect them? Case in point: David Müller posted this neat interpretation of Wing Commander III's Dralthi IV medium fighter that just feels so much like a modernized version of something you'd discover in a random Usenet binaries group back in the day. A well thought out and emotive take on a classic space fighter... I'd love to see more!

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  • 11

    Aug

    It's hard to believe, but today marks 27 years of the Wing Commander CIC! This is the anniversary of the first day we opened our doors at wcnews.com, and it's been a wild ride ever since! As we recently announced, we'll be holding a big event this coming Saturday to officially celebrate with everyone. Visit us on the CIC Discord and the accompanying live stream on August 16th at 7:00 pm EDT (4:00 pm PDT and 11:00 pm GMT). We're looking forward to spending a super fun evening with you!

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  • 12

    Aug

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    Aug

  • 14

    Aug

    PETSCII is a character set that was introduced for the Commodore PET in 1977 and which was used for Commodore's other PCs prior to the Amiga. And where there's a character set there are users turned artists who can do incredible things with it! In 2025, Commodore fans still compete to push the limits of PETSCII art. Case in point: a new piece named Deep Space Anomaly by Sande of Hokuto Force which placed fifth at Pågadata 2025, a Swedish retro computing art event. It features a Wing Commander-style cockpit view hunting down a Dralthi, a Death Star and the Enterprise. That's fun on its own and the amount of talent required to render that with a Commodore PET's built in font is extra impressive. You can learn more and download the 'native' version at the C-64 Scene Database (download backup). Thank you to elend for finding this; we are always thrilled to find a little Wing Commander in an unlikely

  • 15

    Aug

  • 16

    Aug

    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 Exorcist and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start about 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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  • 16

    Aug

  • 18

    Aug

    Welcome!

    Thank you for joining us for the Wing Commander CIC's 27th Birthday celebration! It was a hard year in many ways, but we appreciate the Wing Commander community's constant support; they've been the best of us even when times are rough. We hope you enjoy some of the material below and are having fun with us live on the stream. We also also looking forward to the future. In this year ahead we have a new project coming to collect disk images. More info will be forthcoming, but we'll need the entire community's help to make sure we get everything. Our weekly movie club has been a blast, and that will certainly continue with everything from Heaven's Gate to 2001: A Space Odyssey on the schedule. And we'll have a big focus on Super Wing Commander this year to make sure people get to appreciate a forgotten game. A sample of that is lower down below!

  • 18

    Aug

  • 18

    Aug

    I've been slowly working through the Wing Commander footage to work out what a version of the movie that represents the shooting script and the vision Chris Roberts had in his head when setting out to make the WC movie might have looked like. While this clip isn't polished in the way a theatrical release would be you get a sense of the overall ambition of the project. I think it represents well the overall scope of changes you can expect in nearly every scene once we release a full cut of the movie for everyone to enjoy. Everything in the film is recontextualized and worked to better highlight the various character arcs. I hope you enjoy it.

  • 18

    Aug

    Would it really be a year in Wing Commander if I didn't have a new spreadsheet for you? This one is intended to help everyone debating on the forums and editing the WCPedia: a complete collection of all the dialogue from all of the Origin FX 'talking head' games. Whether you want the in flight comms from Privateer or the option of comparing the original script across multiple platforms it's all available right here.

  • 18

    Aug

    FekLeyrTarg once again crafted a fun little scene to help ring in another year of the Wing Commander CIC! The Kilrathi assault is certainly bold, but I think the Paradigm has the definite advantage here. Thank you for all the support over these many years!

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    This year has been quite intense so unfortunately I didn't have the time for something more ambitious. So I decided to revisit a render I worked on many years ago. It's two Dralthi VIIs ambushing a Paradigm in orbit of a moon. Once again I used the models from the Privateer 3D Archive. The render itself was done in Blender 4.5 with some editing in Adobe Photoshop.
  • 18

    Aug

    New Poll!

    It's time for a new CIC Birthday Poll! Each year we ask how long folks have been visiting. It's wild that some of us have been reporting the Wing Commander news for almost thirty years now!


    The old poll asked about the fabulous sketches in the Kilrathi Saga calendar, which works again for calendar year 2025! December's Strakha art was the clear winner, which is odd, since July's Rigakh is obviously the best!

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  • 19

    Aug