Weird day at the licensing expo.

Here's a wonderful Wing Commander III PlayStation ad discovered by @xwinggameseries.bsky.social! It's fascinating how the marketing totally changed the identity for Japan; it looks so much more colorful and fun.

Just... fly the vehicle.

2 Fasnachts 2 Furious

Lumi, have you been publishing Assassin’s Creed games? Because you be soft.

Note the rare mention of the unreleased Saturn port!

My wife has beautiful hand painted objects for sale at her Etsy store. Each one is exquisite and unique and *could be adorning your home or that of a loved one right now*. What on earth are you waiting for?

I subscribed to the Hess Truck subreddit earlier and then for the first time ever the algorithm started spitting endless horrifying men’s rights group suggestions at me.

In case you didn't tune into the stream last night...here's Ultima VII in first person! Programmed by DLBSP83! www.twitch.tv/viridiangame...

Deep Impact: Robert Duvall’s soft-spoken geriatric former moonwalker who gets sent back to space to nuke a comet is somehow the most rebatable character in the movie.

People are saying we need to ‘listen to the angels of our better nature’, that now is not the time for violent riots or vicious beatings. That that sort of thing just ‘plays into their hands’. Well, I say to hell with all that: it’s time we send a message to LEGO that we do not want Smart Bricks.

After an appropriate period of panic I learned that there are actually two prominent Warren Spectors.

I got some of my #Babylon5 Civilian and Raider ships painted the other day, after finally getting successful test prints off the latest set of models! Here is a Civilian Freighter, Civilian Tanker, and Raider Schooner. The Schooner has 12 Delta-V fighters docked to it, similar to the Strike Carrier.

Day #215: Fritos (1975)

All that posting about medals got me thinking about Wing Commander I's ribbon system. So I made this chart! Turns out the internet has been getting the fighter qualification and service ribbons swapped because of a barely noticed bug (the game awards you the five mission ribbon after one mission).

Here’s the original Wing Commander medal art and how it was updated/colorized for the Super Famicom and Mega CD manuals!

Wait till it comes out that Jostens has been forwarding all of our ring measurements to sex pest island.

Here's the rotoscoped kiss from Wing Commander II! This could be played over any background and I think it gets used three times: after Spirit dies, at the end of the game when you're reinstated as Colonel and then once more in Special Operations 2 after you rescue Angel.

I've got a tape from 1997 that one of the producers on Wing Commander Prophecy shot at ECTS (or E3?) to bring back and show the team back in Austin the competition. Colony Wars is the big focus!

The 386 was made for Wing Commander. 😅 #MSDOS

inside the book: twenty seven separate short stories about how an industrial cleaning robot accidentally didn't stop a murder

Lovey dovey prints for this Valentine’s Day. 💘 #art #linocut #pigeon

Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994)

This is super disappointing for a show I’ve loved to this point. The crumminess of AI art aside, this should have been a slam dunk way to celebrate Star Trek’s long, wonderful history of tie-in comics. Instead our grandkids have one more thing to rework in the remastered version come 2066.

Note the early Bloodfang from the original WC2 demo!

Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek

And I invite you to join the WCNews crew to spend the morning watching some truly terrible 1990s TV pilots! We kick it off at noon Eastern.

Star Trek Scouts, the Star Trek cartoon for toddlers, bringing back Satan’s Robot is a pretty good gag. youtu.be/-m7ISEuAhac

I played a couple of hours of Wing Commander Privateer 2: The Darkening tonight for another video, and this game's FMV sequences are BONKERS

Happy Valentine’s Day!

V/H/S (Very Handsome Sullivan)

WING COMMANDER III: HEART OF THE TIGER

Lumi is chattering in her sleep! What does a little black cat dream about?

To promote TMP, San Diego held a fashion show to showcase the costumes

I bet we can find some cool Wing Commander stuff in here!

I’ve never believed the conspiracy theories about networks wanting to kill Babylon 5 but I have to admit that if you wanted to do that a pretty effective way would be only showing people The Gathering. cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

We need to solve global warming if only to get back the ten minutes at the end of every David Attenborough documentary that’s about how awful man is.

When I posted this last week I know I got a notification that a friend replied that was also fighting cancer. I haven’t been able to bring myself to go through the replies until now and it seems to be gone; if you see this, please know that I’m thinking of you and would like to know more!

A hit! Here’s a photo of Origin’s 1991 CES booth. I want to climb in there and study everything up close. (Also: baby Chris Roberts!)

And here's an April 1999 PC Gamer (UK) interview where Terry Pratchett talks quite a bit about Wing Commander!

Join the Wing Commander movie club tomorrow night for swimming pools, orgies and lots of pretty Italian chicks.

If I had a nickel for every time the space academy commandant divided the cadets into red team and blue team but then the exercise becomes too real...

These colors don’t run.

Digging around for Japanese Wing Commander ads is a great way to find lots and lots of Ultima ads and no Wing Commander ones. Anyway here's a big Ultima:

My theory is that the biggest tell in Love in Blind is music licensing. They only give you a recognizable song if you’re going to be on for a while.

VERY GOOD ADVICE

Katy Perry would be like "What are the Einstein files? Are the kids into it?" and then she'd appear on stage with an unkempt grey wig and moustache and nobody would be able to figure out why

The ‘Burbs notes: - not terrible! - there is a strong Hanks nod early on - the pilot stole a joke from Gilmore Girls and that’s hard to forgive - it turns out The Burbs and The Money Pit were different movies