We’d heard about the new Microsoft Flight Simulator’s mega-realistic scenery, digitally distilled from satellite imagery. We knew the sim could recreate real-time weather conditions on the go, relayed ...

You have to feel for the crew of the Ever Given, a massive container ship that somehow became stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking billions of dollars in goods that would otherwise traverse the ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 (MSFS2024) is a major evolution built on community feedback with an expanded development team, designed for greater expandability, user-friendliness, and cloud ...

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With Microsoft Flight Simulator getting gamers back into the skies, there’s no better time to keep your flight stick hooked up and see what else is out there. Whether you want a hardcore flight ...

Fun fact: turns out the front wheel of a Cessna 172 small aircraft is a little bit like those on a shopping cart, prone to swivelling one direction or another of its own accord based on the propulsion ...

The latest iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator is absolutely gorgeous (save for some funny rendering quirks), and also demanding, if you intend on running it at a high resolution. If you just do ...

The global pandemic put quite the damper on travel. Suddenly, a simple trip to New York City or Los Angeles seems like a lifetime away. That’s why Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 couldn’t have come at ...

It’s 8 a.m. on a clear, sunny day in Oakland, California. No, it’s a rainy afternoon in Hong Kong. Or is it evening in Paris? Microsoft Flight Simulator doesn’t care. At a time when gorgeous “open ...