New and Updated Articles
By Geoffrey |
Who or what were the Ancients? When keeping in mind how lost their identity was with the passage of time, it’s perhaps better to ask not who they were, but what they were. I made an attempt to gather together the few clues in the form of what we...
I Shoot Lasers, Therefore I Am
By Solo Wing |
This year is shaping up to be a great year for fans of 3D rail shooters. Other than Project Draco, the dragon combat game from Grounding Inc (which may or may not be a rail shooter), we also have Child of Eden (the follow up to Rez) and Yars...
More Project Draco Information and Screenshots
By Solo Wing |
Kotaku have updated their website with a couple of Project Draco screenshots, provided to them by the Japanese gaming website Famitsu. The screenshots appear to be taken from the trailer (or are very similar). Also, the Japanese gaming news...
Panzer Dragoon Storyline
By Draikin |
Some of you may remember my own Panzer Dragoon website, Panzer Dragoon Legacy, which focused on the latest game in the Panzer Dragoon series, namely Panzer Dragoon Orta. Earlier this year, Solo and I agreed to merge Panzer Dragoon Legacy into The...
Project Draco "Not a Panzer Dragoon Game"
By Solo Wing |
Microsoft Game Studios VP Phil Spencer has reported to Joystiq that he wouldn’t call the new Kinect game, Project Draco, a Panzer Dragoon game. Joystiq reports: “It’s a Kinect game for one thing, which is going to have its own take on it,”...
New Dragon Combat Game From Panzer Dragoon Creator!
By Solo Wing |
This is huge news for Panzer Dragoon fans. Yukio Futatsugi, the director of the original Panzer Dragoon and a prominent member of Team Andromeda, unveiled his latest creation at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Project Draco is a dragon riding combat...
New Fan Art, Readded Fan Fiction
By Solo Wing |
Atolm has created a new painting of the Solo Wing. As always, the art is of a high standard. You can find the picture over in the Fan Art section. I’ve also readded an older fanfic that was previously on this website. Daniel Petersen has...
Streaming HTML5 Video
By Solo Wing |
I’ve overhauled the Videos section; it now contains streaming videos that can be viewed directly in your web browser. The videos are not displayed using Flash like most sites, but natively using HTML5 and either the H.264 or Theora codec depending...
The Art of Panzer Dragoon is Back
By Solo Wing |
Many thanks for everyone’s patience. The best Panzer Dragoon art site on the web is now back online and can be found at a new URL: art.thewilloftheamcients.com It is now hosted by The Will of the Ancients. This is an older version of the...
What the Adult Dracolyth Really Looks Like
By Solo Wing |
This update includes a bunch of artwork and photos that I’ve been meaning to add for a while, as well as a new drawing of Azel from Finnish Panzer Dragoon fan, Johannes Rajala. He Who Is The Sky has created a some sketches and excellent...
The Old and the New
By Solo Wing |
I’ll start this update with some older content, dug up from the dreaded vaults of my “To Sort” folder. Back in the days of Die Welt von Panzer Dragoon, Lord Craymen created some screensavers based on credits of Panzer Dragoon II Zwei. All three...
Lagi's Takeoff
By Solo Wing |
Tyrone Kamran has submitted three new sketches of Edge and his dragon. It’s always nice to see new Panzer art. I’m also pleased to add a new remix of the Panzer Dragoon Zwei track “The Great Ravine” to this site. It’s called “Lagi’s...
New Art From He Who Is The Sky
By Solo Wing |
Happy New Year. I’ve added four new drawings from He Who Is The Sky to the Fan Art section. Be sure to have a look if you haven’t seen them already; he is a great artist. There’s also a Christmas themed picture of Azel, submitted by...
Videos, Artwork, and Emulation News
By Solo Wing |
I’ve added three videos to the site that many of you will be familiar with. These fake trailers were created by Lord Craymen and Senor Kaffee to trick fans into believing that a new Panzer Dragoon game was on the horizon. If you haven’t seen the...
Test Your Panzer Dragoon Knowledge For Real This Time
By Solo Wing |
I couldn’t bring myself to post the 150th update without contributing something to The Will of the Ancients’ collective archive myself. In the Trivia section you’ll find the final test in the series of quizzes that I started back in 2003. Time...
Links Section Overhaul and New Hosted Site
By Solo Wing |
Many of you will be familiar with Stephan’s Dolby’s website The Panzer Place. It was one of the first English Panzer Dragoon websites on the Internet and served (and still serves) as a great resource for content on the Saturn Panzer trilogy. Due...
Art Comes in Various Forms
By Solo Wing |
Unfortunately the official Panzer Dragoon Orta website has been taken offline, however forum member Hein has kindly uploaded an archive of the site to panzer-dragoon.net. The departure of the official site brings back memories of Sega of America’s...
Dedicated Fans Continue to Produce New Art
By Solo Wing |
I’m very pleased to be adding three new pictures to the site’s fan art gallery. Snow Girl has sketched up a nice portrait of the character Azel. There are also two new pieces of art from B-R-E-T. The first is a cartoony sketch of Orta on the...
Going Forward
By Solo Wing |
After a four and a half month break from work, gaming, and a static lifestyle, I’m back. To an extent, anyway, another part of me is still off exploring Veliko Tarnovo’s ancient fortress. It was great to meet some of you in person during my...
Art of Art!
By Geoffrey |
Just here for a quick pit stop to add a new submission in the form of more artwork inspired by Panzer Dragoon Saga brought to us by Nattherat. Thanks Nat! In the artist’s own words: “an acrylic painting of Lagi’s base wing form done as practice”....
Small Update!
By Geoffrey |
It’s been a while since I updated the site here with anything myself, but I’ve been meaning to return to the Sega gaming community as a whole for a long time now. So I’ll be back! Eventually sooner or later anyway. In this update Chupacabra has...
An Artistic Update
By Solo Wing |
I had planned on adding more to the site for this update, but some of the content was so overdue I didn’t want to leave it any longer. So without further delay, the following has been added: Sketches of Azel and the Eye Wing dragon by...
Panzer Dragoon Prototypes... Released!
By Solo Wing |
Hidden Palace has been updated with a torrent of the Panzer Dragoon prototypes. The prototypes included in the torrent are listed as follows: Panzer Dragoon Saga - Sep 16, 1997 prototype - Disc 1 (of only 1?) Panzer Dragoon Saga - Nov...
Panzer Dragoon Prototypes
By Solo Wing |
Have you ever wondered what Panzer Dragoon Saga was like before it was completed? What changes were made prior to its release, what bugs were fixed? Well now this question has partially been answered. I recently had the opportunity to play through...