The Return of Wing Commander?
Perhaps my all-time favorite series may be making a limited comeback - this time as an XBLA download:

Wing Commander Arena Announced

According to the press release, there will be single-player, multi-team, multi-player free-for-all, and multi-player duel game modes for up to sixteen players. It's going to be more of a multiplayer dogfight game, from the sounds of it, than a story-heavy campaign.

Hmmm.... sounds a bit like Void War :)

Creating an interesting dogfight in space can be quite challenging. If they include big objective-based battles with capital ships (as implied when they mention gravity bombs and torpedoes), that can keep things pretty interesting. And they'd BETTER use the real ships from the series, instead of making up their own.

In fact, I'd really love to see all the ships from the WC1 and WC2 era - now that they can resemble their curvy, raytraced-bitmap originals instead of the blocky WCIII + ships.

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