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Treasure from the forums! Greg14 was kind enough to post a vintage Wing Commander review from the November 1990 issue of France's Génération 4 magazine... and they were kind enough to translate it into English for everyone, too! We absolutely love when folks find and share old Wing Commander articles with us. Merci!

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Ever since Didier discovered this game at the Chicago CES last June, he has been jumping every time he hears its name. Imagine him literally leaping nearly a meter high — about his own height — in the testing room! I'll spare you the details and let him introduce what may well be the game of the year.

Since June, when I had the chance to see at the Chicago CES a piece of software that was then called Wing Leader, not a week went by without me asking for news about its progress. Well, it has finally arrived and, believe me, quite a few people are going to regret owning only an

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There's no two ways about it, you've got to love Indiana Jones. Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the most seamless adventure movies of all time and it was the perfect choice for a crew of movie clubbers that needed a familiar distraction.

Our somewhat flimsy reason to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark was that the Privateer 3 pitch claims that the game will be more like Indiana Jones than Top Gun. Which… great, go hit a home run. If your game is like one of the greatest movies ever made then that would absolutely be quite an accomplishment. Sadly, we'll never know!

We also mentioned in the introductory post that Raiders of the Lost Ark is #3 on the list of Chris Roberts' favorite movies that was printed in an early issue of Point of Origin. At this point, we've watched Star Wars, Aliens, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Highlander and Back to the Future. The Terminator and Jaws are in the movie club

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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 Little Mermaid (1989) 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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With huge numbers of commodities transferred from Brewer Corporation's megaship fleet to Jaques Station, preparations for the tenth anniversary are in full swing.
Colonia Council is calling for aid with the second logistical phase of the celebrations by helping to distribute the commodities across the region.
"We've been up against the clock bundling all these commodities into cargo packages! All citizens in Colonia are excited to take part in the celebrations and it's up to us to supply them," said Jaques in a press conference held at his bar.
"The station crew have done an amazing job and are exhausted, but we're not done yet!"
Colonia Council member Magen Wolf thanked pilots' efforts to date, adding: "The success of these celebrations has been largely down to the incredible pilot community and we're asking for one final push."
All independent pilots willing to aid in the final stages of the

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Wing Commander fans love making maps… and we're no exception! I thought it would be fun to go through Wing Commander Academy and create a little 'atlas' showing all the systems and their features (planets, moons, jump points and so on) that we visit across the run of the show. And it was fun!

Intro: The show's introduction is a mix of new clips and stock ones from the show which are arranged to imply a little story (the pilots scrambling to fight off a Kilrathi attack). That story opens with an asteroid field.

Red and Blue: The first episode takes place on Sirius Prime (per the Confederation Handbook). The map seen in the command center seems to suggest the planet has six moons and is located near a small nebula (this is not how nebulae actually work). The Kilrathi blockade runner is hidden in said nebula, which also contains an asteroid field.

We also see a simulated planet and asteroid in the Academy's

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Last year, Shaggy created a pair of familiar corvettes in No Man's Sky. Now he's back with another ship! This time he's recreated the Errant-class merchantman, aka the Diligent from the Wing Commander movie!

For my third WC themed corvette I decided to to do the movie version of the Diligent. Obviously there are some structural differences, particularly in the horizontal stabilizers, and I went with a WC1 style paint scheme because I like it better and the black movie style is just a little too dark. Even the pictures in the Confed Handbook were pretty difficult to use on their own.

The interior layout is pretty similar to the Venture but there are a lot more Atlas cylinders and green chests, so if you see it in the anomaly and you have an Atlas pass feel free to raid it for supplies.

If there's one Wing Commander movie ship design that's not controversial, it's the Diligent! A cool, unique take on the