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Microsoft is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Flight Simulator franchise by introducing a free upgrade that brings in helicopters, gliders, classic airports, and more to the popular simulator.

A partnership between Microsoft and Paramount Pictures has spawned a Top Gun: Maverick expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The free update carries plenty of jet action to satisfy fans.

The Microsoft Flight Simulator development team has given its hand-crafted touch to Italy and Malta this time as part of World Update IX. Major graphics upgrades cities, airports, and more are here.

The latest Microsoft Flight Simulator World Update brings along new high resolution geographic data that bumps up the quality of Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra, alongside other improvements.

Microsoft Flight Simulator can now be streamed via Xbox Cloud Gaming and will be available on Xbox One and other supported devices. Accessing it via Xbox Cloud Gaming brings a number of benefits too.

World Update VII: Australia, with graphical improvements, is available for free for Microsoft Flight Simulator players. Enjoy the new experience by updating your game to explore the Down Under.

PMDG has recreated the PMDG DC-6 for Microsoft Flight Simulator. To make it more realistic, its characteristics have been matched to one of the few remaining DC-6s that can still fly.

Microsoft Flight Simulator: Game of the Year Edition has been released with five new planes, eight new airports, six new missions, and 14 new tutorials. It also includes new photogrammetry cities.

Microsoft has announced the launch of the Reno Air Race expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The Full Collection includes 40 new aircraft plus an online multiplayer mode to have races.

A military jet, an eVTOL, early access to DirectX12, more hand-crafted airports, and much more features are coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator for free as part of its Game of the Year upgrade.

Today, Asobo Studio released World Update VI for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The update adds new elevation maps, aerial imagery, and much more to Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

Paramount Pictures recently delayed Top Gun: Maverick to May 2022, and developer Asobo Studio has also pushed the expansion back because both were supposed to release at the same time.

Microsoft Flight Simulator is now available for Xbox Series X|S users and Xbox Game Pass subscribers. There are also a bunch of new features such as AI-based flying assistance and Discovery Flights.

France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg have received major overhauls in Microsoft Flight Simulator, featuring more accurate cities and airports, over 100 landmarks, and more.

The latest aircraft, the CRJ 550/700, comes as a result of the collaboration between Asobo Studio and Aerosoft, and becomes the first one of such a complex nature to be introduced to the title.

Microsoft has released the third major update for Flight Simulator, bringing more than 70 high-quality landmarks, five new airports, and more to the UK and Ireland, along with a bunch of bug fixes.

Microsoft is rolling out Flight Simulator Sim Update 2 that brings VR support, 12 new locations for the holidays, loads of fixes and improvements to ATC, UI, and General Aviation and Airliners.

Microsoft today announced that its massively popular sim title Microsoft Flight Simulator is coming to Xbox Series X|S consoles in summer 2021. However, the Xbox One version looks to be scrapped.

Microsoft's second Flight Simulator content drop brings 50 new points of interest such as the White House, new airports, overall visual improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes and enhancements.

Microsoft has released the sixth patch for Flight Simulator, bumping the version up to 1.10.11.0. There are fixes to the ATC behavior, airplane behavior, navigation, and the weather.

After a brief delay, Microsoft has released the fifth Flight Simulator patch bringing a bunch of fixes to autopilot stability, UI glitches, and more. There are also some known issues in the release.

Microsoft announced that it is delaying the release of the fifth Flight Simulator patch owing to issues plaguing the autopilot functionality on several planes. It is expected in the next few days.

This week, there is a bunch of news to go around regarding Flight Simulator deliverables, including information on the closed beta for VR, the publicly available SDK, the Partnership series, and more.

Microsoft has released the fourth Flight Simulator patch, version 1.9.5.0, bringing fixes for a bunch of issues with the VFR map causing crashes, problems with the UI, Marketplace, and more.

This week's development update brings news regarding the Partnership Series, a new Feedback Snapshot, an updated SDK, new introductions to the Marketplace, a world update, and more.

Asobo Studio today announced during the Tokyo Game Show event that a free update is incoming soon to Microsoft Flight Simulator that will upgrade Japanese regions, airports, and more.

The newly released Microsoft Flight Simulator has already passed the one million player mark on PC. The well-received title has also become the most popular Xbox Game Pass launch yet.

Microsoft today detailed the stacked games list that will be arriving to the Game Pass subscriptions on PC and Xbox One in the next couple of weeks, including Crusader Kings III and Flight Simulator.

Announced well over a year ago and spending a bit of time in alpha, the long awaited new Microsoft Flight Simulator game is now available, although it's only available for PCs right now.

The latest Nvidia driver delivers Game Ready status for the upcoming titles Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, as well as last week's A Total War Saga: TROY.

This week's development update brings news for a bunch of components including the Partnership Series, the SDK, Feedback Snapshots, and the development roadmap for August-November as well.