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The original Sony Playstation turned 30 this week, and fans have been coming up with creative ways to celebrating the milestone. LOAF wrote up his own take on the event with a rundown of Origin games that were made for the system, including two famous Wing Commander titles!

March 1996: Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. Ported from the PC original by Electronic Arts. A solid adaptation but the fantastic 3DO version puts it to shame! Had a fancy localization and big push in Japan but couldn't find an audience.

December 1996: Crusader: No Remorse. Ported from the PC by Realtime Associates. Sorely lacking the SVGA graphics of the PC version. Plans to follow it with a port of No Regret were dropped but an early build exists!

March 1997: Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. Ported by Infinity Entertainment from the PC original. Only released in Japan, this version started life as a Sega CD project. The

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Mac is celebrating his recent arrival on Bluesky with a pair of vertical phone-style wallpapers. They feature the glorious Bearcat and majestic Concorida hanging in space. Hopefully they brighten your day as much as they do mine!

The F-104 Bearcat from Wing Commander IV, descending onto a planet below it from the depths of Space. Model by Hangar B Productions/Adam Burch. Rendering by Mac's Lore.

The TCS Concordia in orbit of Earth with a flight of Rapier-Gs flying in escort. Rapier Models & Textures by Adam Burch.

You can find other various Wing Commander luminaries on Bluesky here.

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Last week's meeting of the Wing Commander movie club was a great success! Star Trek VI's connection to Wing Commander may have been slighter than other films we've watched (watch for the after action report on Friday) but it was also a lot of fun watching a film we all love together with friends. And isn't that the point of this whole endeavor in the first place? Next week, however, we're returning to music and to World War II with 633 Squadron (1964)! And as always you are welcome to join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

It's time for more high flying action with the Royal Air Force! 633 Squadron is a fictionalized air combat adventure which pits a squadron of elite Mosquito fighter pilots against a Nazi rocket base. Made in 1964, it's the first air combat movie to be shot in color and represents a new kind of World War II movie that starts to glamorize rather than memorialize the conflict.

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Digital archaeology strikes again: we've discovered something we didn't know was missing… and we've had it in our collection all along! The true story behind the Wing Commander Academy Speech Accessory Pack, long thought to be a fan made addon, has been discovered. What we didn't know was that it was an official addon created and released by Origin in 1993.

Backing up: Wing Commander Academy shipped in August 1993 and it included partial speech. If you have a speech-capable sound card (not a given in 1993!) the game will play the taunts of the (five different) Kilrathi AI pilots you can battle. But the responses from your wingmen do not play; they display as text. This always felt a little odd to players familiar with Wing Commander II… after all, four of the five Confederation comm sets, Angel, Hobbes, Maniac and the male space station, were already recorded. However, the reason the wingmen voices

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Confirmation that the final Thargoid Titan, Cocijo, is headed for the Sol system has sparked mass panic among inhabitants.
Evacuation efforts in Sol began as a precaution on November 28th, when Titan Cocijo first moved towards the core systems. Once it became clear that Cocijo was on a direct course for Sol, these efforts were swiftly accelerated.
Defence Secretary Conn Montgomery provided the following update to the Federal Times:
"Rescue Ship Cornwallis is acting as our delivery point for most refugees who do not have access to spacecraft. We're shuttling civilians from Earth to ports within Sol for transport by Federal military craft and freelance pilots. Other rescue megaships are scheduled for arrival in the next few days to systems close to Sol, which will increase our capacity to process refugees and deliver them to temporary holdings in neighbouring systems."
"We ask for the people of

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Oh, you're a fan of giant rubber cat monsters? Name four of them! The final cut of the Wing Commander movie famously sliced its intended Kilrathi appearances to the bone, removing everything before the climactic final chase and surprising viewers when it finally cuts to a series of brief conversations on their distinctive green-atmosphere'd flagship. So: who are these kils, anyway?

The film's credits identify two of the characters as KILRATH CAPTAIN and KILRATHI ADMIRAL and the shooting script identifies a third speaking character as KILRATHI TECH. The Admiral is the kil who stands to the right and is (technically) the only one whose lips we see move. The Captain is the one who is usually speaking to him but his dialogue occurs when he's seen from behind or when we are looking at their viewscreen. The tech is at the port aft bridge station where he is intended to be the Snakeir's equivalent of the