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KRANT! It’s time to answer one of the great universal questions: do they have, y’know... two?

Short answer: yes? There are two cockpits on the VDU and if you look closely at the sprites you can see two distinct cockpits on the 3D model.

And here’s what the Claw Marks art looks like mirrored so you just see the top. Head canon: they’re bubble canopies and the Kilrathi pilot and weapons officer (maybe?) can give each other thumbs ups.

But nothing twin-cockpit can stay: when the Krant was redesigned for Super Wing Commander it lost its most distinct feature. Designer Sean Murphy, who would go on to create the TCS Midway, said he was asked not to refer to the original.

Even the Nintendo Power comic parodying Wing Commander I has only a central cockpit:

The Krant shows up in the Wing Commander movie script but I don’t think any serious concept art was developed. It was dropped early to save the overworked FX

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Forbes magazine has published an interesting

article

on the ongoing development of Star Citizen. As this also appears in the May 2019 print, the article spends some time initially to catch the reader up on the concept of crowdfunding, the history of Star Citizen and Chris Roberts' background as a game developer and movie producer. There's an update on the game's haul so far. It's taken in some $242 million from players and another $46 million in private investment, so they'll soon cross the $300 million milestone. We noted just

six months ago

that they hit $200 million, which suggests their revenue intake is still surging ahead at a very strong pace and may have actually accelerated in 2019. Per the game's

roadmap

, the Squadron 42 campaign beta is still a good year away, and there's significant work yet to go on building out the game's universe.

The piece also delves into some of the more

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Paul Dean has posted a "lost" interview that he conducted with Chris Roberts back in 2013. It's a fantastic and in-depth conversation about Mr. Roberts' history getting into games, his thoughts on early Wing Commander development and what he's doing now (then). The piece was originally intended to be part of a larger profile, which ended up not working out. But the interview is still great, so I'm glad it was posted! You can find it in full here.

CR: I remember when we did the mission packs for Wing Commander. It all came out of the fact that when I made the game, I had all these assets created and I didn’t have enough disc space for some of the ships so I basically had to shelve them. They were sitting around and Wing Commander was doing so well. It was going to take a while to do the next one. Everyone’s like, “Well, what can we do in the meantime? Everyone loves this.”

I said, "I used to play

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On top of following how other Origin games are going, another one of our non-Wing Commander passions is obviously real life space travel. It's not every day when a major tenet of science fiction turns into science reality, so we're happy to pause for a moment to acknowledge the incredible achievement made possible by thousands of smart people working together. Trust and support science and anything is possible. This new chapter in space travel continued today with the first full crew launch of the SpaceX Dragon. It was only earlier this year when the company became the first private entity to successful launch people into space. That mission carried two astronauts aboard, and today's mission includes four people destined to operate on the International Space Station for the next six months. To say we wish them well is an understatement!

Resilience rises. ?

The Crew-1 mission has lifted off on a

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Games these days have come a long way, able to tell incredible stories in amazing universes filled with wonder and adventure. The companies making these titles are filled with a ton of talented individuals who come and go, sometimes even resurfacing with their own studios. Such is the case for a crew of former Mass Effect and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim developers who are coming together to form a new studio called Brass Lion Entertainment.

Developers Bryna Dabby Smith, Rashad Redic, and Manveer Heir recently revealed their plans for their new company, with the hopes of ushering in a diverse culture of gaming one game at a time. The team has a history of working with many big-name titles, predominantly ones with rich storytelling and a diverse cast of characters.

Our goal at Brass Lion Entertainment is to diversify the video game industry, one fictional universe at a time, and expand them into other

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After departing Mass Effect developer BioWare on the heels of a historic tenure, Casey Hudson further surprised the industry by opening an all-new studio dubbed Humanoid Studios. In the several months since its christening, Humanoid has been underway on a mysterious first project, sending immense shockwaves of speculation into the abyss of the internet. Though the mystery continues, it appears the studio is still keeping its BioWare ties close with the creation of an “all-new science-fiction universe.”

This exciting revelation comes from the newly-updated Humanoid Studios website, which professes inklings of the indie collective’s first in-development IP. As per the site, the new project is said to be a “multi-platform AAA game” focusing on “character-driven narrative” and takes place “in an all-new science-fiction universe.” Highlighting these details, the site is also sprawled with several

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Illuminate the Day

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Cheers!

Luck is in the air all around the ‘verse and, as you gather your closest cohorts for copious merriment, we tip our caps to you and your accomplishments.


Here’s to you and new discoveries. Here’s to fate ever smiling upon you. And here’s to the opportunity to commemorate the occasion with friends, frivolity, and frothy beverages.


Get in the spirit with limited edition commemorative green and gold vehicles, and show us how you celebrate in a revelrous contest.

Feelin' Lucky?

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Don’t say the party’s over

Raise a glass to another year of revelry, success, and prosperity… just don’t forget to invite us! Throughout the weekend, we want you to share your most outrageous in-game party pics. And the inevitable FOMO of your fellow citizens (assuming they aren’t at your function) is the tip of the iceberg.


That’s right, the most provocative party purveyors

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Dear pilots, First of all and with all our hearts, the entire ROCKFISH team would like to thank you for your interest and participation in our forums. It has been a tremendous pleasure and invaluable help for us along the entire development process and beyond. Now, with EVERSPACE 2 still in early access for several months and with decreasing traffic and less than a dozen active users on our forums, we decided to cease hosting our own forums. The vast majority of discussions are taking place on the STEAM DISCUSSIONS anyway. By the end of March 2022, we will cease hosting our own forum and kindly ask all remaining pilots to head over to the official EVERSPACE Steam Forums for future support and discussions: EVERSPACE 1: https://steamcommunity.com/app/396750/discussions/ EVERSPACE 2: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1128920/discussions/ Kind regards and all the best, ROCKFISH Games

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In late 2018, we kicked off a Foundry Challenge to celebrate the release of Victory is Life, and now it's time to announce the results! We had a lot of entries from very, very talented people, and we were blown away by the stories you tell in the Star Trek universe. The requirement was to tell a story for a Jem'Hadar or Cardassian Captain, and our winner has done that to a T. So without further ado, congratulations to XR-377, and their winning mission, "Flowers of War, Thorns of Peace." XR-377 was kind enough to make the mission twice, once for Federation Captains and their allies, and once for Klingon Defense Force Captains and their allies, so all of your characters should be able to play it. In addition to winning a T6 R&D Promotion ship of their choice, the mission is joining our roster of spotlit missions. Thanks again to everyone who entered! .share-footer a { margin: 20px 10px

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Foundry Spotlight: [AEI] In Silence The Foundry is a special program within Star Trek Online that allows users to make their own episodes, playable by other Captains within STO. To access it, open your Mission Journal, and select “Foundry,” at the top. Every now and then, we like to spotlight a particularly interesting or unique mission for all of you to experience. This time, we’re spotlighting “[AEI] In Silence” by Starfarertheta. In Silence is part of an initiative called the Alliance Exploration Initiative, created by fan podcast The Foundry Roundtable. The goal was to create missions based around exploration, not just combat. In Silence takes you on a mission to meet up with a very demanding ambassador, which quickly goes off course and becomes an exploration of a long-dead space station, full of interesting and wonderful surprises. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue choices in the

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The Foundry is a special program within Star Trek Online that allows users to make their own episodes, playable by other Captains within STO. To access it, open your Mission Journal, and select “Foundry,” at the top. Every now and then, we like to spotlight a particularly interesting or unique mission for all of you to experience. This time, we’re spotlighting “In the Shadow of MIDAS: Part 1” by GreenDragoon. In the Shadow of MIDAS returns Starfleet Captains to the MIDAS array, the deep space communication array responsible for sending messages to Voyager on its long journey home. These messages were sent via wormhole, but Starfleet scientists have managed to open the wormhole enough to send two starships through. They haven’t returned, and it’s up to your Captain to figure out the mystery of their fate. In the Shadow of MIDAS is a three part episode (And the third part isn't out yet -

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The Foundry is a special program within Star Trek Online that allows users to make their own episodes, playable by other Captains within STO. To access it, open your Mission Journal, and select “Foundry,” at the top. Every month, we like to spotlight a particularly interesting or unique mission for all of you to experience. This time, we’re spotlighting “AA: Starbase Invictus Social Map” by midnighttlc. (ID: ST-HBMSMG4XC) The Foundry, by its very nature, is not designed to create a social zone. That’s why what midnighttlc, better known to some as Admiral Aaron, has done here is pretty darned cool. Hang out in a social club, battle on a holodeck, and meet a host of interesting characters both original and based on the personas of your fellow players. (And one bartender based on a certain German Community Manager.) Bored with all the socializing? Summon a Borg raid to battle all across

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The Foundry is a special program within Star Trek Online that allows users to make their own episodes, playable by other Captains within STO. To access it, open your Mission Journal, and select “Foundry,” at the top. Every month, we like to spotlight a particularly interesting or unique mission for all of you to experience. This time, we’re spotlighting “Time Will Tell,” by XR-377. Time Will Tell (ID: ST-HG930DWIE) is a KDF mission that begins when a mysterious anomaly appears in the Kahless Expanse, and takes its captains on a journey through time, space, and a plot that has its tongue firmly planted in cheek. I don’t want to spoil too many of its twists and turns, but be sure to keep a sharp eye out as you play, especially for some of the character names. Got a mission you think is worthy of being spotlighted in one of our monthly blogs? Submit it to us! After you’ve built it in the

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Greetings Cryptic Fans, On April 11, we are sad to announce that we will be sunsetting the Foundry system for Neverwinter and Star Trek Online. This decision was not made lightly; the Foundry was a passion project for many of us, and we have loved seeing the unique stories and awesome content our Foundry Authors have produced. Developers and players alike have enjoyed using the Foundry and the friends we’ve made and the journeys we’ve had will live on in our memories. Our team at Cryptic strives to create excellent content and maintain a high standard of quality for our games. However, the legacy knowledge required to maintain the Foundry at our quality standards is no longer available. Our goal is to continue creating top-notch content for our current and upcoming games - and the development time and resources required to maintain the Foundry would impede on these new features and systems.

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The Azaladshu Free faction, which controls four systems, has seceded from the Federation in protest against civilian surveillance.
The unexpected declaration followed the election of new leadership for Azaladshu Free, which currently controls the Azaladshu, LFT 824, LHS 277 and LTT 3919 systems.
Mayor Constanza Noguera announced:
"The Federation has become corrupt, authoritarian and untrustworthy. In particular, the public surveillance laws to spy on innocent people cannot be tolerated. From now on, we will govern our systems as independent sovereign nations."
Political observers believe that several other Federal factions are also planning to declare independence. All are within Shadow President Felicia Winters's sphere of influence, although she has publicly renounced any support of these actions.
Congress has stated that secession is illegal under the Federal Accord, and ordered Azaladshu

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Today we have a snippet from a recent UW Weekly interview with Freddie Prinze Jr. The larger piece focuses on his working relationships with a variety of co-stars, including this comment on Wing Commander veteran Matthew Lillard. Check it out below! You can also read the full article here.

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Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing the Fractal Update, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 4.12, which will be live on all platforms soon.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused bases built next to some building types to become buried in the ground.
• Fixed an issue that prevented recolouring of portable base building objects constructed outside of a base.
• Fixed an issue that caused ship cockpit screens to flicker.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Galactic Trade Room on freighters to be non-interactable.
• Fixed an issue that allowed cursor or stick sensitivity to be set to 0, preventing cursor use.
• Fixed a bug that caused farmable plants to appear in the wrong visual state.
• Fixed an issue that caused ByteBeat

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Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing the Fractal Update, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 4.12.1, which is live on Steam.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a number of network-related crashes.
• Fixed an issue that could cause controllers to disconnect when playing via Steam.

We will continue to release patches as issues are identified and resolved. If you experience any issues, let us know by submitting a bug report.

Thank you,
Hello Games

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Quote from No Man

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing the Fractal Update, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 4.13, which is live on Steam.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect options settings to be saved out for currently non-applicable options.
• Fixed an issue that caused the “speech to text” options text being very slightly smaller than the other Network options.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused some menu options not to re-translate when changing languages.
• Fixed an issue that caused a number of options to appear in non-relevant configurations, where they have no functional effect.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Base Complexity option to be incorrectly hidden on some platforms.
• Fixed an issue that could prevent the

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Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone playing the Fractal Update, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of issues. These fixes are included in patch 4.14, which is live on Steam.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a crash related to rendering.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some players to lose discoveries.

We will continue to release patches as issues are identified and resolved. If you experience any issues, let us know by submitting a bug report.

Thank you,
Hello Games

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