MSFS – Development Update October 9th, 2025
On last wednesday, there was the October Developer Livestream. The panel of Jorg, Seb, Martial (plus a few special guests) answered many questions from the community while also discussing future updates coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. If you missed watching the broadcast live, you can watch it here back. (Grab some coffee) […]
MSFS Development Update – September 4th, 2025
As of writing the Community Fly-in for this Friday is live. You can follow it here. Or watch it back. Not that many exciting news for MSFS2024. Only that the dev team is heads down this week putting the final touches on the first pre-release test build for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Sim Update 4, and the […]
MSFS – Development Update August 14th, 2025
The ongoing beta test for MSFS 2024 Sim Update 3 continues with two new pre-release builds this week. In case you missed it, you can see the release notes for each of these test builds here: As mentioned in the weekly Development Blog a few weeks ago, Microsoft Flight Simulator will be at Gamescom again this year in Cologne, Germany! If […]
MSFS24 – Development Update May 8th 2025
The monthly Developer Livestream for May is coming soon! They don’t have the exact date locked in yet. But we are all waiting for that. At the moment the Community Fly-in Friday is live. Maybe some more info between the lines. It’s a bush fly. The beta is still at v1.4.18.0. And off course some […]
MSFS2024 Development Update – February 20e, 2025
That’s the short news of the Asobo team about the progress of all the bugs in MSFS2024. It’s in Progress, Fixed of Under investigation. At least they are making progress. You can see the overview of it here. See also the SDK Items And there is a new Jetstar from developer Big Radials released for the PC […]
MSFS – Development Update February 6th, 2025
Last wednesday was the live broadcast “Developer Livestream. Miguel did make a perfect summary about it. You can read it here. Nevertheless, this is interesting: See also the highlight here for the P180 from developer FlightFX which releases exclusively on the in-sim Marketplace for both PC & Xbox today! And with the ‘cheap’ hardware from WinWing you can build […]
Bluebird Simulations Offers Sneak Peek at Deeply Simulated 757, Beta Nearing
Sim enthusiasts get a glimpse of the complex systems behind the highly anticipated 757, as Bluebird Simulations reveals intricate details of its development process. In a recent video update, Bluebird Simulations offered a comprehensive look at the progress of their highly anticipated 757 for flight simulators. The video showcased the intricate systems being developed, including […]
MSFS – Development Update January 30th 2025
The Asobo team is working hard on the feedback with the Sim Update 1 Beta. A new pre-release build with more fixes and improvements is coming soon for beta testers. See also this Forum Topic. And Finally, the next Developer Livestream is now confirmed for Wednesday, February 5 at 10:30am PST (18:30 UTC). Via the official […]
MSFS – Development update October 31, 2024
On October 30st was the latest Developer Livestream. Jorg was joined by three members of the SDK team at Asobo to answer some of the most common questions they have seen from third party developers since the start of the Dev Alpha last week.Also appearing on the stream were three members of Microsoft’s Marketplace team […]
MSFS weekly Dev Update: pure boredom :-)
It is awkward when you have to, but actually have nothing to report… this is what this week’s MSFS Development Update reads like: Earlier today, we released updated versions of Local Legend 9: Latécoère 631 and Local Legend 12: Dornier Do X. You can download these updates via the in-sim Content Manager. You can read the release notes […]
MSFS – Development Update October 12, 2023
From the MSFS Team: “The team is currently heads down and hard at work on our next two content releases scheduled for later this month: Both are planned for release on October 31. Additionally, as announced during our recent Developer Livestream, we are also preparing Sim Update 14 for release before the end of the year. In the […]
MSFS – Development Update October 5, 2023
Some days ago a development update from the Asobo team. With apologies for the latest Sim Update 13. As they wrote: “Following this release, an unexpected issue occurred. This issue prevented many players from downloading/installing content and affected both in-game updates and Marketplace content installations. ” Read more about it here. And specially for Xbox users:As […]
A2A Cherokee enters beta testing
A2A Simulations have today announced that their eagerly awaited Piper PA-28 Cherokee has now entered the beta testing phase of development, which is great news for those simmers who are looking forward to this aircraft being added to the list of those which have received the popular Accu-sim treatment. The announcement can be found on […]
Prepar3D v2.0 Blog shows changes
Yesterday’s blog post from Wesley Bard of the Lockheed-Martin team continuing development of Prepar3D version 2 proves, if nothing else, that they do listen to feedback from their userbase. The most obvious advances are technical – DirectX11 support is being introduced, which leads us to the volumetric fog seen above, along with multi-threading and pushing […]
August 2012 Development Update from A2A
It’s always nice when developers let you ‘behind closed doors’, allowing you a glimpse into what they have been, are and will be doing. Almost the best for doing so are A2A Simulations, who release numerous videos via YouTube showing their projects in detail as well as videos such as that above – development updates, […]
PMDG 777 timetable slips slightly
Robert Randazzo of PMDG has posted an update to their support forum over the weekend, covering progress on their three current projects – the B777, B744 v2 and Douglas DC-6. While primarily positive, the post does also say that unfortunately the timetable for delivery has slipped slightly due to team members’ priorities being elsewhere. One […]