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We've posted the story of Privateer 2 author Diane Duane embarrassing a fool who didn't believe a woman could know (much less create!) a video game before. It's a classic! She

The Wing Commander movie club has successfully carried the One Ring to Mordor… or… half way there, at least. But we're not leaving 1978! This week, we will be watching The Song of Roland (1978), a French film about medieval knights which stars Klaus Kinski! It s...

Here at the Wing Commander Combat Information Center we love old magazine articles about our favorite series... and our beloved type, by far, is ones that come from 'professional' periodicals. Case in point, here's a great article from the June 1999 issue of Computer Graphics World that details the SFX work that Digital Anvil put into the Wing Commander movie. It's the sort o...

The Wing Commander IV demo was released online on October 19, 1995, a full four months before the game finally shipped! As a result there's some interesting things in the demo that are a little different from the final game... so we thought we'd take a look. We'll start with the controversy. The... stupidest controversy in history. When the demo was first released, a 43-megab...

The Wing Commander movie club has made the trip from Providence to Aspen with Dumb and Dumber… and we were kind of surprised by how gentle the movie comes off today. I had never seen it and assumed from the pedigree that it would be an outrageous, cutting edge sort of a comedy… but if anything it actually drags quite a bit when viewed today. One thing we've learned watching t...