It’s hard to write about a new release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, as if there was ever a topic that’s been beaten to death more than once, it’s a list of the advantages and flaws of the “final proper part of the MSFS franchise”. FSX is a title that…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApqyUhPKV3o That original release trailer is still really cheesy and inappropriate, but over ten years after the release of Flight Sim 2004 A Century of Flight, we’re announcing the release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X… Hang on… Haven’t we done this before? Dovetail Games’ FSX: Steam Edition is basically the same as…
Users of Dovetail Games Train Simulator 2015 should have seen their sim update today, bringing support for six additional languages to the platform – German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Russian – meaning that additional content is natively supported in those languages rather than having to be used in English. To…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfoC3AqKEE The Early Access version of Dovetail Games Fishing is now available through Steam, for those who want to be involved in the development of the title through to completion and formal release. But, you ask, what the hook and line has that got to do with flight simming? Well,…
If you fancy a blast from your simming past, a quick glance at the Steam “new releases” today will have you reaching for the credit card, as the Microprose’s Fleet Defender – The F-14 Tomcat Simulation and F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter 2.0 have been added to the line-up by Retroism.…
One of the things that parents with young children learn very quickly is rhyming story books. Lots of them. Whether it’s a scarf for a giraffe, a cat in a hat or a goat in a boat, there’s apparently an unwritten rule that all children’s stories must rhyme. But what’s…
Updated to Correct dates: Just a quick reminder to our readers that use Dovetail Games Train Simulator 2014, that the next version of the sim, predictably entitled Train Simulator 2015, is released on Thursday, following a patch to enable content to work in the new sim, which will be released…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWGLcdI8o8 Every now and then, someone gets a bit shirty at us for posting articles about simulators other than those directly surrounding aircraft. Well, this one involves flying. Sort of. As you can see from the trailer video. Yes, it’s finally here! The game to end all games, or at…
Steam’s Greenlight scheme, where they gather user input as to which titles should be added to the online-distribution system, has been building rapidly since launch and the latest batch of ‘Greenlit’ titles includes a couple that could well be of interest to the simFlight readership – the first of which,…
Fans of German bus simulator OMSI have just over 24 hours to wait until they can get their copy of its successor, featuring reworked versions of old content, plus a new vehicle and route. The sim is backwards compatible, so content for OMSI will work in OMSI2, but unlike the…