There's a very reliable way of generating quick and easy gaming gossip. Just scan the website of the ERSB, America's games rating board, and find intriguing new titles submitted for certification. That's how Siliconera has generated this post about a possible new Wing Commander title. EA does indeed have a game named Wing Commander Arena listed on the site, rated E (it contains 'fantasy violence' apparently. Don't we all) and down for the Xbox 360. Siliconera suggests it could be a multiplayer Xbox Live Arcade title.
Wing Commander was, of course, a successful series of 3D space combat games released on PC and PSone during the mid- to late-nineties. They interspersed the action bits with movie sequences in that charmingly naive 'interactive movies are the future' way they had in the nineties.
I wonder if movie sequences in games will ever work again? You can bet if Wing Commander does come back, Mark 'Colonel Christopher Blair' Hammill won't be receiving an excited call from his agent.
If this has whetted your appetite for Wing Commander action, the game appears as part of EA's retro collection, EA Replay, which is due out on PSP this month.
