OBD Software, known for their work on Wings Over Flanders Fields, released a third Expansion for the popular flight combat sim this week. This latest content release includes: New Aircraft and Damage models, New Shader and Lighting Effects, New Music, Campaign Changes, as well as numerous additions and tweaks to the game’s mechanics. Aircraft Additions […]
Eagle Dynamics has released DCS World’s newest DLC, and this time you’ll be taking flight in the P-51D Mustang for a full-on story driven campaign. Coupled with the release is an overall update of the game to version 1.5.3.52478, or simply Update 4 of the current iteration. The P-51 Mustang was a long-range fighter that […]
Eagle Dynamics has released the newest DCS update along with a robust Basic Flight Training Campaign for the A-10C Warthog. The campaign boasts over 2,300 lines of voiced dialogue and has 170+ pages of briefing material (A-10C checklist, maps, data cards, etc) to soak up in your spare time. Everything from your flight plan and […]
Ah Combat Air Patrol 2… so we meet again. Developer Sim155 has been teasing their Harrier II flight sim since 2014, and just when I think it’s about to come out, it disappears into the shadows for months. If you’re unfamiliar with Combat Air Patrol 2, I wouldn’t be surprised. While it hasn’t exactly been […]
Well, it’s a new year. Time to make and break resolutions and prepare for a whole new year of events, news, and goings on. January, and in some ways, the entire first quarter of a new year, is a little bit like the summer for the game’s industry (sans E3). Developers and publishers have usually […]
Developer RJ Sim has recreated the famous Blackpool International Airport for all of you FS2004 fans out there. Released on January 29th, the publisher said: One of the UK’s oldest airfields, Blackpool is a favourite for both passengers and pilots. Development on VFR Blackpool began before the sad news that the airport was to close […]
Well, 2015 is here, and, if you’re like me, you’re probably already looking ahead and trying your hardest not to salivate over the games that are sitting on the horizon. No matter what video game genre you prefer, the start of a New Year stirs up all sorts of excitement; especially for those of us impatiently waiting […]
A new breath of life for IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover “Keeping the dream alive” is the slogan of the modders Team Fusion, who have just released a major update to their IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover mod. Dreams aside, the reality for those who aren’t already flying Cliffs of Dover is whether or not […]
Introduction As a long time digital aviator, I’ve had a somewhat tepid relationship with Yaw. Frankly, it’s not the most exciting input one can make to an aircraft. In fact, it’s been relegated to clean-up duty for the mess other inputs make: Yank back on the stick in your Spitfire? Yaw’s there to deliver a […]
So far we have looked at the first chapters of the IL-2 legend, IL-2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles. Now we move from Europe to the Pacific. Fighting the Publisher: IL-2 Pacific Fighters (2004) “…in what has to be the final utilization for the IL-2 engine, Oleg Maddox, Ilya Shevchenko and company have released Pacific Fighters, […]
Review by Jens “McGonigle” Lindblad Introduction Having followed the development of Over Flanders Fields from its early inception as Phase 1, over the introduced refinements in Phases 2 and 3, to the Hat in the Ring release and the renaming to Wings Over Flanders Fields, the Old Brown Dog developers now release their long anticipated […]
In our first retrospective article on IL-2 we covered the release of the original IL-2 Sturmovik and took a walk down Oleg Maddox’s memory lane. Gone, But Not Forgotten Following hot on the heels of the successful IL-2 Sturmovik, came the Forgotten Battles release in 2003. This stand-alone title in the series came slightly more […]
