Without much ado, here are some recent news snippets, announcements, and releases you should give a look. War Thunder – Victory Day Update Gaijin Entertainment has launched the “Weapons of Victory” update for War Thunder, their WWII MMO. If you’re part of the nine million player base currently involved in War Thunder, or if you’re […]
Eagle Dynamics, the developers behind Digital Combat Simulator World (DCS World), released a newsletter today showing off and discussing some content that will hopefully be making its way into the game later this year. Although plenty DCS news made its way into the newsletter, a surprising amount of DCS World 2 information was teased. DCS […]
1C Game Studios and 777 Studios have announced that update 1.011, a major update for IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad, is now available to download and launch. You can check out the most recent dev blog (#95) here, which briefly touches on update 1.011. The update brings with it a new aircraft and map, as […]
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 […]
I am a Warthog addict. Who isn’t, right? I do my best to immerse myself in the Warthog world: books, all the YouTube videos I can watch, and, of course, I spend as much time as I can afford in Eagle Dynamics’ DCS A-10C Warthog with my Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS. To us fanbois (and fangurls), […]
For this month’s calendars, we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the E-2 Hawkeye. You can visit the NAVAIR site for the event here. “The E-2 Hawkeye, the Navy’s airborne early warning, command and control aircraft, was delivered to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 11 on Jan. 19, 1964. To mark this milestone, E-2/C-2 […]
In this final article for our IL-2 retrospective, we look at the last chapter in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and what came afterwards – the unique collaboration with a group of modders, Team Daidalos. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (2006) Tom Cofield once again leapt bravely into dark waters predicting in 2006 that IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 […]
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 […]
Recently I had the opportunity to revisit the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. again after nearly a decade. While there are other terrific aviation museums that may cover specific areas in more depth (such as the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida and the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force […]
