Big day for the IL-2: Great Battles Series as the World War I based Flying Circus Vol 2 reaches officially released status, Flying Circus Vol 3 and beyond get a confirmation, and the latest update also brings us the Spitfire XIVe with bubble canopy. Oh and Wings over Caen Typhoon campaign for Battle of Normandy…
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Flying Circus Vol 2, XIV bubble canopy, and Li-2 announcement
We’ve got a new developer diary, the first in several weeks, from the team over at 1C Game Studios and this one is packed with some details on near term releases. We have the official release of Flying Circus Vol 2 coming up, the release of the Spitfire XIV bubble canopy version, an announcement of…
IL-2 spring sale underway
Announced this morning, the IL-2 Sturmovik spring sale is now underway with sales of a variety of products on their webstore. What’s on sale? Unlike in past sales, we don’t have a detailed breakdown of everything that they have on offer but clicking through the online store gives us a sense of what they are…
1CGS upgrading single player campaigns, announce new ones for IL-2
Over the years, 1CGS have put out a number of scripted campaigns both freely available with certain products and sold separately on their webstore and on Steam. In the most recent Developer Diary, they are reporting that they are going back and providing updates to many of these to take advantage of new features and…
Next generation head tracking? Tobii Eye Tracker 5 full review!
For a long time now I’ve contended that we’re living in a golden age of flight simulation. We’ve seen the hobby explode in multiple different directions over the last decade picking up from the last golden age and heading outwards into all kinds of different directions. Technologies that we’ve long taken for granted are seeing…
IL-2 devs talk Flying Circus career mode, Vol 3
Developer updates from the 1CGS team haven’t been as frequent as of late but this one helps fill in some details on Flying Circus with some big updates and news on Career mode as well as a bit of talk about a potential volume 3. Career mode beta test begins The big headline here is…
Flying Circus based ‘Flight Club’ ranked e-Sports series starts up
If you’ve got a bit of a competitive streak going and you love World War I kites, the recently announced ‘Flight Club’ might be just the thing you’re looking for. e-Sports for Flying Circus Organized by the Flying Circus multiplayer community, group organizers have made an announcement earlier in the week that their group would…
1CGS announces Typhoon campaign: Wings over Caen
A new free campaign for IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Normandy is on the way. Titled ‘Wings over Caen,’ this historically-based scripted campaign is intended to give us a thrilling experience with the Typhoon over the Normandy map during the heyday of its use as a close air support aircraft. Let’s have a look! Typhoon triumphant…
Five flight simming goals for 2023!
Some people like to call them resolutions where I prefer to call them goals. My flight sim goals for 2023 are things that I’d like to do if everything works out the way I expect them to. But I’ve learned from the last year that sometimes things don’t always go according to plan and so…
Flying Circus’ Sopwith Snipe full review
Added to the IL-2 series back in December of 2022, the Sopwith Snipe arrives to the Flying Circus side of the series as the first completely new aircraft to join the series since its inception. Prior aircraft releases have also been based on rejuvenated versions from Rise of Flight – the Snipe is all new!…
Stormbirds 