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Last year sci-fi sandbox game No Man's Sky premiered a new "corvette" mode that allows players to design and construct their own spacecraft. In the past we've shared some great reconstructions of Wing Commander fighters and corvettes... and now a Reddit user named CaptainJayne-05 has created something a little bigger. It's the TCS Tiger's Claw herself, complete with working flight deck! Pretty neat:

This is inspired by one of my favorite space flight games of all time, Wing Commander. My brain wasn't creative enough to make an exact replica, but I think it is a decent homage to, what I consider, a classic game. For those not old as dirt, like myself, the Tiger's Claw was the space carrier that you flew from as a fighter pilot in the original Wing Commander game. Anyhoo, hope you like it. Interior is as yet unfinished.

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Last year we reported on the release of Wing Hard 2.0, a mod created by Sheppard which adds a great deal of customization to the difficulty of Wing Commander I and II! Now Sheppard is back with an updated version, Wing Hard 2.1. Here's what's new:

WINGHARD v2.1 README (1 March 2026)

WHAT'S NEW:

The v2.1 update consists of the following:

New Features:

"Restore Stock Defaults" -- just what it means; one shot restore to defaults instead of having to push '1' over and over.

Bug Fixes:

Game files are now opened ONCE per file per section (not once per write), dramatically speeding up the program.

Memory Leaks and other "shoot foot" situations are fixed, such as a short overflow issue.

In a short overflow issue, the basic SHORT data type only goes up to 32767.

The CONFEDERATION's Front Shields in WC2 have a value of 5000; so if one were to increase the rating of Confed Cap Ships by more than 6.55~ ; the value of the

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A quick March development update for Freelancer Zero Hour, and the announcement of an early open testing release!

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It's time for March's 'cartoon' marathon and this is one a number of folks have been waiting for: we're beginning a study of how Star Trek influenced Wing Commander! The original Star Trek and Star Trek The Next Generation were both enormous influences on many aspects of Wing Commander and we've planned an event spanning two months to study some of them!

Star Trek - The Cage (s1e00): The first connection to Wing Commander is a simple one but since it's a direct call out to the very first Star Trek pilot we thought that was a great place to begin. Secret Ops veterans who played through the actual episodes as they came out may remember that the very first winning password in the game was "Talos IV", a reference to the dangerous planet that Captain Pike and his crew visit in The Cage.

Star Trek - Space Seed (s1e22): The introduction of Star Trek's greatest villain, Khan, has a very literal connection to

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Mobile Suit Gundam proved to be pretty popular as the Wing Commander movie club was busier than ever last week! Next time we're going to see if hard hitting action is as popular: we'll be screening Hard Target (1993) next week. Hard Target is an over the top action movie from the legendary John Woo, his first film made for Hollywood. You can join us this Friday via Discord to watch along.

Why the interest in John Woo movies? Because the Wing Commander III team loved them! Wing Commander III's executable contains a hidden 'quotes' file from the development team full of in-jokes and shoutouts to what sustained them through a hard development cycle… and John Woo movies are mentioned twice! Hard Target would've been in theaters while Wing Commander III was being made. Below is a reproduction of the entire file; there's a lot of inside baseball here but it also paints a wonderful picture of who these

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Earlier this year we suggested everyone catch up on Majuular's excellent (and lengthy) series of Ultima retrospectives. I hope you took our advice, because it's time for the next one: a three plus hour deep dive into the controversial Ultima VII: Pagan and the history around its development. The story naturally includes quite a bit about Wing Commander and it's all very fascinating.

I even noticed a Wing Commander nod I hadn't before: after summoning Pyros, the Lord of Flame, the Avatar is told "I will feast upon your entrails first, manling!". That's a callback to a common Kilrathi taunt... and it's spoken here by Origin's Ken Demarest, who voiced Bluehair in Wing Commander II. Here's the audio from Ultima:

The taunt first appeared in the original Wing Commander where it was "I shall feast upon your offspring." Secret Missions 2 updated it to "I shall feast upon your entrails!" and a tradition was