Category: News

  • Up Close Preview of Microsoft’s New Flight Simulator

    Up Close Preview of Microsoft’s New Flight Simulator

        It was a blustery overcast day in Seattle. It was early and some bleary-eyed gamers assembled in a hotel lobby. We looked at faces familiar and not so, all unsure of what the day ahead had in store for us. We chatted over coffee as we received our nametags and passes and signed…

  • We’re Back Online!

    We’re Back Online!

      So after a couple of weeks of being down, the website is back! (obviously!) So I’m still not exactly sure what happened, but I want to say a huge thank you to members of the community for supprtiung me and helping me sort this out. I feel this is a temporary solution and there…

  • More News about Microsoft Flight Simulator

    More News about Microsoft Flight Simulator

    There have a been a few developments in the emerging world of Microsoft Flight Simulator in the last few days. Firstly, we have a studio! In an article summarizing Microsoft’s participation in E3, French newspaper Le Monde announced the studio behind the new simulator as French studio Asobo. This studio has been around since 2002,…

  • Guess Who Is Back In The Flight Sim Business?

    Guess Who Is Back In The Flight Sim Business?

      In a move that caught EVERYONE by surprise, Microsoft announced the rebooting of their long dead franchise Microsoft Flight Simulator. Details are still VERY sketchy, but the trailer is nothing short of jawdropping. What we know so far: Native 4K Resolution Support Full world available at launch (no more of the Flight issues of…

  • Welcome To Novaria Komrade!

    Welcome To Novaria Komrade!

    So lately I’ve been mucking around with my skills as a Communist Leader in a new simulation title released by 3Division games. Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic is a new city builder / economic simulator…. but done from a Communist perspective. Set in a tiny patch of land along the Iron Curtain border, you take…

  • Discord For All!

    Discord For All!

    Watching the success and growth of Discord has been fascinating for me. As many of you know I am part of a flight simulation community of msFlights.net, and was part of the change that moved the community from TeamSpeak to the emergent platform. It has come a long way from the early scratchy days, and…

  • MilViz’s Greed and Arrogance Revealed

    MilViz’s Greed and Arrogance Revealed

      In the ongoing saga of Military Visualisations and the ATR72, they have revealed the true depths of their disdain for the community, their arrogance and their greed. In a post on their Facebook page, they have revealed their intended price point for the ATR72 for both Prepar3D and for X-Plane 11 should it come…

  • Ned Kelly’s Not Dead Yet

    Ned Kelly’s Not Dead Yet

    Its late on Sunday evening, I sat down at my computer to continuing working on my familiarity with a couple of aircraft I have in my “To Review” hangar. While I’m doing some pre-flight, a friend messages me to ask had I seen MilViz on Kickstarter? I was intrigued, I hadn’t so I looked it…

  • Three Grumpy Simmers Return for 2019!

    Three Grumpy Simmers Return for 2019!

    The Three Grumpy Simmers are back for another year of navel gazing nonsense while asking the uncomfortable questions of our community. We start 2019 by looking at the concept of Early Access, Alpha and Beta testing and what the impacts of changing attitudes have been on the community. In the wake of the last few…

  • Welcome to 2019!

    Welcome to 2019!

    Welcome to 2019 here with Novawing24! So its a little later start to the year than I wanted but here we are! I’ve had more than a few technological and real world challenges since my last video of 2018, so thanks for your patience with me as we finally get 2019 underway. The NovaWrap is…