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The Wing Commander movie club had a great time with ace's birthday movie, Amadeus! (Happy birthday, ace!). It's not quite a historical movie as it is a movie that contextualizes Mozart's story for modern audiences… treating him as we would see a rock star-style musician today, so that we understand his humanity instead of some more stuffy analysis of his music. The result is ...

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 Romeo + Juliet (1996) and you can find details on why we're watching it in

You know it when you see it, and you see it more than you expect in marketing, signage and other games: the 'Wing Commander font'. But what is that font? Well, the typeface you associate with the earlier Wing Commander games was derived from a font called Stop. It's so named because of the reaction you have to its bold, unique appearance, similar to how you might react to a b...

AD has made a nice little discovery! It's a Wing Commander IV preview and Mark Hamill interview from the October 1995 issue (Number 81) of VideoGames: The Ultimate Gaming Magazine (real title, not made up). What's neat about this one is that it includes some set photos that we haven't seen anywhere else! It's always great to look back in time through this sort of media; I wis...

The AI revolution, purportedly an attempt to recreate the mind of a single Pilgrim, is wreaking havoc on both human thought and the RAM market. With RAM prices skyrocketing, many are wondering how they'll afford to play the next generation of video games. To help out, here's a helpful chart showing both the amount of RAM required and the amount recommended for each Wing Comma...