Ever since discovering the Microsoft Flight Simulator on floppy disk, way back in the early 1980s, I was hooked. The gray and white screens before me—accompanied by a “tick tick tick tick” sound of a ...

We’ve had some good times, aeroplanes and video games. Though not as popular as they once were—we can thank the demise of the joystick for that—flight simulators are still a popular genre, one that’s ...

Anyone who owned a PC in the late '90s and early '00s probably had some sort of encounter with Microsoft's classic Flight Simulator series. Not quite a game, but not really a tool either, it was such ...

Aces of Thunder, from the studio behind the well-known flight sim War Thunder, is set to launch in Q4 on PSVR 2. Alongside a new trailer, the studio revealed today that the game is also coming to PC ...

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin - Flight simulation is about to take an impressive step toward more realistic flight with the introduction of actual air traffic controllers. Pilots have long used simulators to ...

Flight sims aren't what they used to be. In the hobby's infancy, flight sims were one of the major genres, and even legendary designers like Sid Meier worked on air combat games. Games like Jane's ...

F-15 Strike Eagle, Solo Flight, and three more classic flight simulation games will be re-released on Steam. The Thursday announcement by publisher Atari and developer MicroProse also includes three ...

A study by the Flight Simulation Association (FSA) revealed that pilots who supplement their training with home flight simulation require 5.5 fewer flight training hours for certification and almost ...

“This is how we do games: To understand what it’s like to dogfight, we just go outside of Moscow, put ourselves in planes, and do some dogfighting,” says IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad’s ...

As someone who lives and breathes games a bit more than most, it's refreshing to talk to friends who have only a passing interest in the subject. Sometimes, it leads to a revelation that just didn't ...

Game Pads This $150 controller from Honeycomb Aeronautical has not one, not two, not three, but four integrated Throttle Levers for the flight sim sickos Controllers Best PC joysticks in 2025: These ...