I can’t help cheer for the underdog and so when news came out that Why485’s Tiny Combat Arena was finally coming to Steam I couldn’t have been happier. Created by a single person, Tiny Combat Arena is a flight sim that combines serious flight simulation aspects together with a simple art style and interface. And…
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Tiny Combat Arena launching Feb 22
I’ve been following @Why485 on Twitter for years now as the developer has worked away on the prototype for a flight simulation combat game now titled Tiny Combat Arena. The title, picked up by Microprose, is intended to be fast and fun with plenty of simulation aspects. It’s coming Feb 22nd and here are some…
Flight sim news round-up for December 4th
There’s always a bunch of things happening around the flight sim community that I don’t get to report on during the week and here’s a round-up of some of the ones that captured my attention. This week we have moving weather fronts for DCS World, snow for X-Plane 12, a software manager for iniSimulations aircraft…
Microprose announces collaboration with 100th Bomb Group Foundation
The reincarnated Microprose is busy publishing new titles with some interesting indie developerse and working away on some projects of their own including a B-17 focused sim experience that they have been talking about for some time now. In an announcement yesterday, they noted that their team is now working closely with the 100th Bomb…
Flight sim news round-up for June 19th
Another week has passed by and as usual there’s a few news stories that I haven’t had a chance to write about yet so here they are all rounded up. Orbx offers Iceland mesh for free A nice little surprise for Microsoft Flight Simulator fans as Orbx offers their Iceland Mesh product for free. This…
Checking in on the latest from Task Force Admiral Vol 1
The folks over at Drydock Dreams Games have been busy working away on their naval combat simulator – Task Force Admiral and the latest updates show all kinds of promising efforts starting to come together. With so much of this sim centered around aerial combat and with plenty of cross over between fans of flight…
MicroProse announces ‘The Mighty Eighth!’
If you’ve dreamed of a simulation game that required you to pilot and crew a B-17 flying over Europe during World War II, MicroProse might be offering something for you with the announcement of their new in-house developed ‘The Mighty Eighth’! Let’s have a look at the announcement that came out today. A VR enabled…
MicroProse announces three titles, teases more!
The big announcement from MicroProse is here and its a bit of a surprise! MicroProse is not back just as a developer of games but also a publisher with the announcement that they are joining forces with Triassic Games, Drydock Dreams Games, and Hexdraw as the future publisher for all three of these developers titles….
MicroProse is back and about to make a big announcement
Many months of teasers and messages that MicroProse is back is set to lead way to some big official announcement which MicroProse themselves now are teasing is coming tomorrow. This is what we know right at the moment and what we might see tomorrow. A storied past Started in 1982, MicroProse was responsible for a…
MicroProse is back?
If you’ve been around flight simulation or computer gaming in general, the name MicroProse probably means something to you. The publisher and developer of a huge number of classic titles from Civilization to X-COM to flight simulation classics such as F-15 Strike Eagle, B-17 Flying Fortress, Fleet Defender, and even the F-16 Falcon series all…
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