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An uncatalogued Wing Commander II SNES screenshot has been discovered! This screenshot was hidden on the review index page of the April 1995 issue of Electronic Games. It shows the game's double-VDU'd Ferret and a never-before-seen look at its newly created VDU art for the Kilrathi Sartha fighter. Wing Commander II SNES is a tragic story, the game was completed but never released… and no prototype has surfaced in the decades since that poor decision was made!

The issue also included a short hands-on review. It doesn't tell us much but it's a reminder that FCI DID send copies of the game to news outlets… and they may still exist out there, somewhere.

Wing Commander Il: Vengeance of the Kilrathi (FCI/SNES) Wing Commander II reproduces all of the major features of the popular space combat game. SNES players will find the cinematics and fast action they expect, as well as the multiple plot lines and variety

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Spring is here! And since that's a season that exists, GOG has a sale. GOG's Spring Sale offers great discounts on the Wing Commander and Privateer games. Everything else Origin-related seems to be on sale, too, with prices ranging from $3 for the main packages to just $1.20 for the modern update of Space Rogue! Here's the big GOG matrix for your perusing pleasure:

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The Wing Commander movie club agrees that Hard Target is a joyful and wonderful thing. It wasn't anything like I, a person largely unfamiliar with this kind of action movie, expected. I expected something stylish and clinical, a proto-Matrix perhaps… and instead it was a joyous, though stylistically distinct, celebration of over-the-top garbage. The kind of movie that makes you remember how wonderful it is that such unusual kinds of movies can exist. From the opening with a violent bow and arrow attack to Wilford Brimley immolating one of Lance Henrickson's goons with an exploding moonshine still it's exactly the movie you need it to be. Excelsior!

The name of the place… is Ba… Hard Target.

The big connection to Wing Commander is a tough one to quantify. The Wing Commander III team repeatedly expressed their love of "two-fisted John Woo" films, so watching it helped us get into their shoes while they

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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 Kagemusha (1980) and you can find details on why we're watching it in the announcement post here. The movie will start at 6 PM PST/9 PM EST but feel free to drop by and hang any time! Please note that this is one hour before the normal movie time!

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The Distant Worlds 3 logistics fleet has completed the first build phase of a new deep-space outpost in the Roefoo ZE-H d10-0 system at the edge of the Mare Somnium region.
Established using construction materials stocked earlier this year, the facility has been informally named "Rainbow's End."
The station is intended to support long-range exploration operations and scientific analysis across the sparsely charted sectors of the galactic northeast.
Hermine Delarue, Operations Executive for Deep Space Surveys, has issued an appeal to the galactic exploration community:
"Rainbow's End is designed to act as a remote research hub for explorers far beyond established survey routes. To maximise its effectiveness, we need fresh stellar cartographic data to seed the station's modelling systems. We have already picked up many fascinating scans and more data will help us clarify what we are dealing

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Internet art showcase DeviantArt is a great place to find awesome Wing Commander fan art... but it's also full of endless amounts of ridiculous nonsense. And today we're celebrating two recent ones! The first is by Nintendoman01 and it's a subject near and dear to my heart: a reimagining of the 'Warrior King' character whose story ended in Wing Commander Academy!

Herai, the Warrior King

My reimagining of the Warrior King, a lesser-known character from a big meta-project undertaken by the USA Network back in the 90s.

He, and a magic orb that sustains his world, appeared in four different shows the network aired: chronologically in this order, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, Savage Dragon, and Wing Commander Academy.

As for his name, my buddies and I worked it out. Herai, since he's basically in the same vein as He-Man and Lion-O.

And the second one is a little more risque. But we do