The release of Local Legend 18 has just happened with Microsoft taking the wraps off of the iniBuilds based project in the last couple of hours. This is the second helicopter partnership that Microsoft has released. Scout and Wasp Westland Scout and Wasp were two helicopters operated by the British Army Air Corps, British Royal…
iniBuilds T-33 revealed as new project
On Monday we learned that iniBuilds were launching a new team internally to build some non airliner projects. I guessed maybe they were doing a business jet but I was wrong! Instead their first aircraft in the series is none other than the T-33! A shooting star! The T-33 is coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator!…
Just Flight shows off work in progress A300B4 cockpit
There’s a second A300 project on the horizon with Just Flight providing us a new look at their work in progress Airbus airliner. The aircraft they are making is the A300B4, one of the original A300 series created (coming much earlier than the A300-600 you may be familiar with from iniBuilds). This developer update is…
SimWorks RV-8/8A coming August 1
The folks at SimWorks Studios are set to release their latest aircraft in the Van’s RV line that they have been working on for the last couple of years. After the RV-10 and RV-14 this latest aircraft is the diminutive RV-8. Let’s have a look! Release coming up Set for a release on August 1,…
A look at the iniBuilds developer plus Dubrovnik scenery
Following last week’s Summer Surprises, iniBuilds are continuing with some more summer updates thanks to a developer stream released yesterday, new scenery released today, and two more days of content coming including a new aircraft series and some talks about the A350 and their plans for the future with X-Plane. Let’s have a look! Covering…
World Update XVII: UK & Ireland is out
We’ve got a brand new World Update out today for Microsoft Flight Simulator. This World Update takes us back to some familiar turf – the United Kingdom and Ireland. These were covered in a previous world update, however, the new update boast plenty of improvements and covers far more territory in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and…
Community Q&A: Talking with Sérgio Costa about MicroProse and their new B-17G ‘Heritage Valor Collection’
MicroProse is a name long known in simulation circles for a wide variety of simulation games back in the 1980s and 1990s. F-15 Strike Eagle, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Gunship and B-17 Flying Fortress. With the company name back in business and a collection of sim products now under development, MicroProse has taken an interesting step…
DCS World hotfix now live
The last big DCS World update brought in a quite a few new features and fixes but it also created a few new headaches and today’s hotfix looks set to solve at least some of those. The fix just went live a little while ago so you’ll want to get your DCS World launcher up…
Korea IL-2 Dev Blog talks graphics
We’ve got a new developer blog that came out a couple of days ago (I’m playing catch-up after several very busy days) talking about some of the graphical improvements to the series. Let’s have a look! Visual and gameplay effects of graphics This dev diary for Korea IL-2 is all about the graphics engine. A…
iniBuilds MSFS A300-600 gets summer sale, performance improvements
The Summer Surprises from iniBuilds are almost over with several products getting deep discounts throughout the sale period. The last item on the list is their A300-600 which gets a discount and an update at the same time. Let’s explore both! Improvements to accuracy and performance Sometimes you just resonate with an aircraft and with…
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