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Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update II: France & Local Legend 09: Latécoère 631

Celebrate French Aviation with new Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) cities and the Latécoère 631

The Microsoft Flight Simulator team is delighted to introduce the free City Update II: France, which captures five beautiful cities: Amiens, Angers, Nantes, Nîmes, and Reims; and to celebrate the Paris Air Show, the update also includes the famed Paris–Le Bourget Airport (LFPB) in both standard and festival configurations.

City Update II: France

Some highlights from each city:

  • Amiens, located in France’s northern region, is home to the Amiens Cathedral, the largest gothic cathedral in France.
  • Angers, in the western region, is renowned for the towering Angers Cathedral and its black- and white-walled castle.
  • Nantes, near the Atlantic coast just west of Angers, invites aerial exploration of its myriad architectural displays along the Loire River and of the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany.
  • Nîmes, in southern France, offers an incredible collection of Roman-era architecture, including the Arena of Nîmes, an amphitheater that still hosts live shows to vast audiences.
  • Reims, located 80 miles northeast of Paris, claims some of the best examples of French Gothic architecture, notably Reims Cathedral.

Paris–Le Bourget Airport (LFPB), the landing site of Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927 in the Spirit of St. Louis and the current host to the Paris Air Show 2023.

City Update II: France is now available free to all owners of Microsoft Flight Simulator. Ensure that your simulator is updated to version 1.32.7.0, download City Update II, and experience some of the very best sights that France has to offer.

Local Legend 09: Latécoère 631

To celebrate the proud history of French aviation, the Microsoft Flight Simulator team is also releasing today Local Legend 09: the Latécoère Model 631, an all-metal, high-wing, six-engine flying boat designed and manufactured by France’s Latécoère Corporation. This aircraft represents a great source of French national pride. The large, elegantly shaped Model 631 first took to the sky on November 4, 1942.

The Model 631 was the largest flying boat in the world for several years. Only the American Hughes H-4 Hercules “Spruce Goose,” which flew just once on November 2, 1947, and the British Saunders-Roe Princess, which took its maiden flight on August 22, 1952, were larger. As the last of the great trans-oceanic flying boat airliners, the Model 631 flew until the mid-1950s.

The Latécoère Model 631 will be available for $14.99 and comes with 16 liveries.

Check out City Update II: France and the newest Local Legend airplane in Microsoft Flight Simulator today. The sky is calling! Microsoft Flight Simulator is available for Xbox Series X|S and PC with Xbox Game Pass, PC Game Pass, Windows, and Steam, and on Xbox One and supported mobile phones, tablets, and lower-spec PCs via Xbox Cloud Gaming. For the latest information on Microsoft Flight Simulator, stay tuned to @MSFSOfficial on Twitter.


Microsoft Flight Simulator Premium Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Premium Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition

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From light planes to wide body jets to gliders and helicopters, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.

The Premium Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition includes everything from the Deluxe Edition plus 5 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 5 additional handcrafted international airports.

Premium Deluxe Additional Aircraft
• Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
• Cirrus Aircraft SR22
• Pipistrel Virus SW 121
• Textron Aviation Cessna Citation Longitude
• Zlin Aviation Shock Ultra

Premium Deluxe Additional Airports
• Denver International Airport (USA)
• Dubai International Airport (United Arab Emirates)
• Frankfurt Airport (Germany)
• Heathrow Airport (United Kingdom)
• San Francisco International Airport (USA)

Explore Your World
• Vivid and Detailed Landscapes – Immerse yourself in the vast and beautiful world that is our planet with over 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees, mountains, roads, rivers and more.
• Living World – The Earth is vibrant and ever-changing and so is the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator, which includes live traffic, real-time weather, and animals.

Earn Your Wings
• Aircraft – Hone your pilot skills in a variety of aircraft from light planes to commercial jets with comprehensive flight models. Every aircraft includes highly detailed and accurate cockpits with realistic instrumentation.
• Checklist System – From pro to beginner, scale your level from full manual to full assist with interactive and highlighted instrument guidance and checklist.

Test Your Skill
• Live Weather -The weather engine enables users to switch on the live weather mode to experience real-time weather including accurate wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain and more.
• Day and Night Engine – Experience flight at any time of day or year allowing for night VFR, visual flight rules, navigation.
• Aerodynamic Modeling – A state-of-the-art physics engine with over 1000 control surfaces per plane allows for a truly realistic experience.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has fulfilled the aspirations of aviators worldwide for 40 years. Celebrate the award-winning franchise with the 40th Anniversary Edition, loaded with all-new features, aircraft and content that span the history of aviation.

The 40th Anniversary Edition update introduces:
• 1 true-to-life Airbus A310 Airliner
• 2 helicopters and 14 heliports
• 2 gliders and 15 glider airports
• 7 famous historical aircraft including the Hughes H-4 Hercules (aka the Spruce Goose)
• 4 classic commercial airports
• 24 classic missions from the franchise’s past


Microsoft Flight Simulator Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition

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$89.99

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From light planes to wide body jets to gliders and helicopters, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.

The Deluxe 40th Anniversary Edition includes everything from the Standard Edition plus 5 additional highly accurate planes with unique flight models and 5 additional handcrafted international airports.

Deluxe Additional Aircraft
• Diamond Aircraft DA40-TDI
• Diamond Aircraft DV20
• Textron Aviation Beechcraft Baron G58
• Textron Aviation Cessna 152 Aerobat
• Textron Aviation Cessna 172 Skyhawk

Deluxe Additional Handcrafted Airports
• Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (Netherlands)
• Cairo International Airport (Egypt)
• Cape Town International Airport (South Africa)
• O’Hare International Airport (USA)
• Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (Spain)

Explore Your World
• Vivid and Detailed Landscapes – Immerse yourself in the vast and beautiful world that is our planet with over 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees, mountains, roads, rivers and more.
• Living World – The Earth is vibrant and ever-changing and so is the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator, which includes live traffic, real-time weather, and animals.

Earn Your Wings
• Aircraft – Hone your pilot skills in a variety of aircraft from light planes to commercial jets with comprehensive flight models. Every aircraft includes highly detailed and accurate cockpits with realistic instrumentation.
• Checklist System – From pro to beginner, scale your level from full manual to full assist with interactive and highlighted instrument guidance and checklist.

Test Your Skill
• Live Weather -The weather engine enables users to switch on the live weather mode to experience real-time weather including accurate wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain and more.
• Day and Night Engine – Experience flight at any time of day or year allowing for night VFR, visual flight rules, navigation.
• Aerodynamic Modeling – A state-of-the-art physics engine with over 1000 control surfaces per plane allows for a truly realistic experience.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has fulfilled the aspirations of aviators worldwide for 40 years. Celebrate the award-winning franchise with the 40th Anniversary Edition, loaded with all-new features, aircraft and content that span the history of aviation.

The 40th Anniversary Edition update introduces:
• 1 true-to-life Airbus A310 Airliner
• 2 helicopters and 14 heliports
• 2 gliders and 15 glider airports
• 7 famous historical aircraft including the Hughes H-4 Hercules (aka the Spruce Goose)
• 4 classic commercial airports
• 24 classic missions from the franchise’s past


Microsoft Flight Simulator Standard 40th Anniversary Edition
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Microsoft Flight Simulator Standard 40th Anniversary Edition

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$59.99

$47.99
Get it now
PC Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass

From light planes to wide body jets to gliders and helicopters, fly highly detailed and accurate aircraft in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition. The world is at your fingertips.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition features 37 airplanes, gliders, and helicopters with unique flight models, 25 handcrafted airports, 4 classic commercial airports, 14 heliports and 15 glider airports.

Explore Your World
• Vivid and Detailed Landscapes – Immerse yourself in the vast and beautiful world that is our planet with over 1.5 billion buildings, 2 trillion trees, mountains, roads, rivers and more.
• Living World – The Earth is vibrant and ever-changing and so is the world of Microsoft Flight Simulator, which includes live traffic, real-time weather, and animals.

Earn Your Wings
• Aircraft – Hone your pilot skills in a variety of aircraft from light planes to commercial jets with comprehensive flight models. Every aircraft includes highly detailed and accurate cockpits with realistic instrumentation.
• Checklist System – From pro to beginner, scale your level from full manual to full assist with interactive and highlighted instrument guidance and checklist.

Test Your Skill
• Live Weather -The weather engine enables users to switch on the live weather mode to experience real-time weather including accurate wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, rain and more.
• Day and Night Engine – Experience flight at any time of day or year allowing for night VFR, visual flight rules, navigation.
• Aerodynamic Modeling – A state-of-the-art physics engine with over 1000 control surfaces per plane allows for a truly realistic experience.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has fulfilled the aspirations of aviators worldwide for 40 years. Celebrate the award-winning franchise with the 40th Anniversary Edition, loaded with all-new features, aircraft and content that span the history of aviation.

The 40th Anniversary Edition update introduces:
• 1 true-to-life Airbus A310 Airliner
• 2 helicopters and 14 heliports
• 2 gliders and 15 glider airports
• 7 famous historical aircraft including the Hughes H-4 Hercules (aka the Spruce Goose)
• 4 classic commercial airports
• 24 classic missions from the franchise’s past

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Temtem’s Season Four Update Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

Splash splash.

Developer Crema Games has today announced a brand new update for the Pokémon-inspired MMO Temtem. This one brings the game up to version 1.4.0 and kicks off its fourth season, ‘Splash Up!’.

The new season’s theme looks to be all about the summer with pools and beaches galore. Alongside a long list of improvements, the update also introduces easier access to competitive play, adjustments to Dojo Wars and quests, a new Pride event and much more.

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Final Fantasy 16 Will Have a Day One Patch Despite Square Enix Suggesting Otherwise

Final Fantasy 16 will join basically every other game in having a day one patch, despite Square Enix previously suggesting it wouldn’t.

As reported by MP1ST, Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida confirmed the game will have a roughly 300 megabyte update upon release during a pre-launch live stream.

This comes in contrary to comments from director Hiroshi Takai, who said in May that the developer wasn’t planning to release a day one update. Speaking to Game Informer, Takai said this is because the team is confident in its final built of Final Fantasy 16 and that it wanted to ensure the game could be accessed without an internet connection.

Yoshida and the development team apologised for including a day one patch after all but made clear it isn’t a mandatory download, that the game is still completely playable without an internet connection, and that it will be included in the pre-load for digital copies.

The update is relatively minor, of course, coming in at almost nothing compared to some other recent examples. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, another single player game, required a several dozen gigabyte day one update and couldn’t be played in any form without an internet connection.

Final Fantasy 16’s update will fix some minor text errors, optimise performance in several places, and fix back-end bugs that stopped progression or caused crashing in very specific circumstances.

The game launches on June 22 but Square Enix has warned that spoilers may have already leaked online due to the “illegitimate acquisition” of physical copies. Fans looking to spoil themselves can jump into a playable prologue, however, with progress from the demo carrying over to the main game.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Feature: A Kou Shibusawa Production – Changing History With Koei Tecmo’s OG Strategy Studio

“The more we learn…the more it fuels our creativity”.

History fans love to ask a good ‘what if?’ question. A completely hypothetical situation to explore how small changes could impact the course of world events. Video games that explore these kinds of questions usually fall into the grand strategy genre, putting players at the head of a faction with the aim to dominate their enemies either through political manipulation or brute force, and seeing what might have happened if some grand historical engagement had gone the other way.

One developer that has always been at the heart of the grand strategy genre is Kou Shibusawa, a division of Koei Tecmo that has been producing some of the best and most celebrated historical strategy titles out there, dating back to the original NES. We had a chance to talk to some of the heads of this celebrated studio to discuss their history in the genre and what keeps players coming back for more.

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Soapbox: Fortnite On Switch Is Five Years Old, And I Have No Idea What It Is Anymore

Was that Ariana Grande shooting Spider-Man?

Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim returns to Fortnite to celebrate the Switch port’s fifth anniversary, and he’s not sure what he’s dropped into…

When Fortnite first made the jump to Switch five years ago, I couldn’t get enough. The online shooter had gone portable in early 2018 with the mobile version, but my chunky thumbs and out-of-date phone meant that was never going to cut the mustard. The Switch version, however, hit the sweet spot — portable enough to play it on the go, but just large enough that I could pour a good few hours into it without hand cramp setting in. And I really did pour those hours in.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Persona 5 Tactica Used Persona Q Character Designs During Testing Phase

Devs realise “many people might associate” new game with PQ.

Persona 5 Tactica is a new spin-off featuring a completely different experience (and look) to the main game.

If you’re getting Persona Q vibes from the art style, you’re admittedly not alone. In a recent issue of Weekly Famitsu, P Studio general producer Kazuhisa Wada revealed that during the testing phase of the new turn-based strategy game, the team actually applied “character designs directly from the Persona Q series”. In the end, the team decided to redraw everything (via Persona Central).

Read the full article on nintendolife.com

Shadow The Hedgehog Won’t Be In Sonic Superstars, Unsurprisingly

“Sorry” to all the Shadow fans out there.

One Sonic character that will be returning in the future, but won’t be featured in the upcoming release Sonic Superstars is Shadow the Hedgehog.

During a chat with Shacknews earlier this week, Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka was asked about the possibility of Shadow appearing in Sega’s upcoming multiplayer platformer. Although this new entry has 3D visuals, it’s apparently all about the “classic” characters.

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Splatoon 3 Devs Tease “New And Different” Gameplay In Wave 2 DLC

“So please look forward to it”.

Splatoon 3 is well worth a look on the Switch, but if you do need an extra reason to check it out or just return to Splatsville, there’s actually a second wave of Expansion Pass DLC coming at some point “in the future”.

During an interview with Famitsu recently, Splatoon producer Hisashi Nogami teased a bit about what players could expect from the mysterious update “Side Order” – mentioning how the gameplay in this “single player campaign” will be “completely new and different” (translation via Nintendo Everything).

Read the full article on nintendolife.com