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♬Who will be Fan Project of the Year?♬

Better late than ever! We've been spinning a few too many plates these past few months and we just haven't had time to do the 2025 Fan Project of the Year and Hall of Fame award contest yet. But we don't want to give up on the tradition, so we're kicking it off today!

As always, we are asking the community to highlight your favorite projects of the past year. It could be massive ongoing fan games, it could be fan art or music or it could be any of the incredible mods or utilities that WingNuts have put hard work into.

We will also be deciding the second ever Hall of Fame award. You can nominate projects or individual fans who have made a contribution to the community and the fandom over the year. Last year's winners were Klavs and HCl so whoever you nominate will have to be pretty impressive!

Please email your nominations to news@wcnews.com and check back next week

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Late last year, veteran Wing Commander actor Matthew Lillard made headlines after being insulted by director Quentin Tarantino. Movie lovers everywhere reacted with a surprising amount of anger to Tarantino's dismissal of the Maniac and Lillard was very open at the time about how much it hurt. Now he's back to thank the fans who supported him. In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lillard took the time to appreciate everyone who had a kind word.

“It was like living through your own wake,” Lillard describes of all the tributes he received from his peers in the business on social media. “All those R.I.P. emails or tweets and Instagram posts and TikToks, all of the things we see after somebody passes are so sweet. And the reality is I just got to live through all of it firsthand — alive and kicking! I can't imagine a more lovely reaction to what happened.”

“It was crazy. I keep showing it

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The Wing Commander movie club has traveled twenty minutes into the future to experience Max Headroom and... well, it was hard to see why this was such a big deal in 1984. This telemovie kicked off three separate televisions serieses and countless of ads and cameos for the character but it really feels like a 1980s Doctor Who or (complementary) a Privateer 2 cutscene. I also checked out the US version which retold this story as a 45 minute TV episode and found that although there was some more money spent on the sets it was pretty similar!

Max Headroom may not have been much of a movie but it helped us find some new Wing Commander history! You may recall that the big connection for our series was that the design pitch for the cancelled Privateer 3 listed Max Headroom as an influence on the game's world... which surely means that punk 1980s cyberpunk dystopia sense from the story's setting. But while

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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 Air Force One (1997) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 7 PM PST/10 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time!

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Here's an interesting eBay find: an Australian press sheet for the Wing Commander movie. This document would've been set to film distributors that were interested in running the movie in their theaters. It contains a unique synopsis (with the correct year!) data about the film and information about what promotional support will be available.

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
FILM DISTRIBUTORS PTY LTD
PRESS SHEET

SYNOPSIS
Earth year 2654. The Confederation is engaged in a brutal war with the vicious, bloodthirsty alien race, the Kilrathl. The Kilrathi have captured a computer navigation device, which they plan on using to jump behind enemy lines and attack Earth. Only three brazen young space pilots and their elite fighter squadron stand in the way of their planet's destruction.

Christopher Blair is fresh from the Academy, but his inexperience belies his incredible navigational skills. He has a genetically driven gift

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For over a decade now, GOG has been the online home of classic Origin games. It has introduced countless new fans to series like Wing Commander, Ultima and Crusader. But... what's missing? Origin published dozens of games in its two decades of development and there are plenty of gems that simply aren't available today. So we've conducted a quick audit in the hopes of bringing some recognition to the titles that still can't be legally played today. We've attempted to Origin's output into three categories: the 1980s, 1990s and then an appendix of related titles that weren't developed by or published under the Origin label. The lists do not include re-releases or mission disks, assuming that any GOG release would be the most complete version of that particular title.

Publisher Era (1983-1990)

From 1983 to 1990, Origin was a workshop-style studio which partnered with independent creators to develop and