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Intelligent Gamer's Fusion was a short-lived gaming magazine that kicked off in 1995 and closed up shop less than a year later. Luckily, that was exactly the right time to exist for a preview of Wing Commander IV! And this one has a great interview with Chris Roberts that talks about all the amazing projects that sadly never came about... Wing Commander V, Silverheart, Maniac Missions and even an Armada followup! From the March 1996 issue:

Mister Roberts Universe

Creator of the famous Wing Commander series from Origin, Chris Roberts has moved from designing and coding games to positions as a Vice President and Executive Producer for Origin. After some success in the British gaming industry, Roberts joined the company in 1987, and a year later he promptly produced Times of Lore, a number-one seller in 1988. The following year brought the first Wing Commander to gamers, and Roberts has had great success

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It's a rarely remembered fact that one of the first products that Electronic Arts developed after they acquired Origin and the rights to Wing Commander was French and German translations of Wing Commander II, replacing previous 'English with localized manuals' versions that were distributed by Mindscape and Ubisoft. The French Wing Commander II was followed by a French localization of Special Operations 1... but not Special Operations 2! Now Greg14 has corrected that mistake (and some others!) with a complete French version of Wing Commander II! Here are the details:

Voici la traduction finale de Wing Commander II en français.
Cette version inclut :

• la correction de nombreuses fautes d'orthographe ;
• l'amélioration de plusieurs erreurs et imprécisions de traduction ;
• la configuration du jeu pour une utilisation avec la Roland MT-32

This is the final French translation for Wing Commander II.
This release

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Remember Admiral Fluffy, the Kilrathi expert with a cool 3D printed Vaktoth and Dralthi? They're back with something even bigger: a Kamrani-class corvette! That's pretty much the entire Kilrathi fleet as of Wing Commander Prophecy... pretty cool!

It's...uh...Feline Alien Friday! (It'll catch on, I'm sure.) Today, I finished the #Kilrathi Kamrani-class corvette from the Wing Commander series of video games, named the Dor-Chak(Striking Bird in Kilrathi). Even designed a unique clan marking for it!

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It would be stretching to call Double Impact a classic… but it was a lot of fun, and it delivered well on its promise to have Jean-Claude Van Damme act opposite a second Jean-Claude Van Damme. And maybe that's really all you need! Happy birthday, Dundradal.

We already talked about the music from the Double Impact score used to temp track the Wing Commander movie, so there's not a lot to report. But it did occur to me to ask: has an actor ever acted opposite themselves in Wing Commander? There are plenty of actors with dual roles, but the only 'acting together' I could think of was that in Wing Commander Academy's Expendable, Mark Hamill plays both Maverick and a hallucination of his father!

Sully thinks sharing that bagel would have a double impact on his cat happiness.

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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 The Transformers: The Movie (1986) 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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To test its new deployable mining rig, Wreaken Corporation has called for independent pilots to help complete field trials.
Dr. Ben Curtis, Chief Geologist at Wreaken, stated:
"We're excited to not only test the rig's patented mining laser technology but also verify which materials it can extract from a variety of planetary body types."
"In order to conduct accurate tests, we're also opening up these field trials to pilots willing to laser mine asteroids for comparative yield analysis."
He added that it was a result of the direct cooperation with Vodel for the release of the new SRV Rhino that placed the deployable rig in the hands of intrepid miners so quickly.
"The Rhino is the first of its kind in this new class of SRV. We know buyers are going to have a lot of fun taking this across terrain they found tough before." added Owen McKenna, CEO of Core Dynamics.
All independent pilots willing