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Here's a great video: gaming news site Polygon recently did a 'Criterion Closet' style video with Matthew Lillard where he poked through a vintage game collection. It's incredibly entertaining on its own because he's very charismatic and seems to be very genuine in his gaming background… but he also tells a wonderful story about the Wing Commander movie that I'd never heard pop up in an interview before.

This is crazy. I literally just saw this as we walked in. This is a movie I did called Wing Commander. Um, it's so funny. It's with Mark Hamill. Oh, that's so funny. So, yeah. So, I was in Wing Commander. I played Todd Maniac Marshall. One of my favorite lines I've ever said in any movie. It's stupid. This isn't going to be that fun for you, but I literally said in the middle of this movie, "I'm on it." As I'm sliding across the bridge of this spaceship and I'm trying to get us into warp speed and I

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Core Dynamics has confirmed the successful conclusion of its Kestrel field trials, with pilots proving its fighter superiority in conflict zones.
A Core Dynamics press statement described the results as "confirmation that the Kestrel is the best small combat ship available." Engineers monitoring combat situational data reported that the Kestrel outperformed every other ship encountered, better than they had anticipated.
CEO Owen McKenna provided this statement:
"We have a long history of producing high-performance combat ships and always wanted to build a successor to the incomparable Eagle Mk II when the time was right. I'm pleased to announce that the Kestrel is that ship having exceeded all our expectations."
With the successful trials now concluded, Core Dynamics predicts that the Kestrel will be adopted by the Federal Navy and independent combat pilots as the small fighter of choice.
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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