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Daily News
January 2013

Great turnout for Military Monday, January 28th.

Cisco sells Linksys home router unit to Belkin.

Guilty as charged: Facebook, Google, Snapchat and Starbucks caught for privacy violations.

A new "January Teaser" has been released for Rogue System. Teaser 3 features early shield and missile effects, as well as pilot "tunnel vision."

Screenshots from the new Arma 2 Serious Sunday.

Screenshots from Iron Front Saturday.

The official AlphaSim freeware collection, now maintained by Virtavia.

SimHQ's next DCS World Fly-In coming February 22-24.

Strategic Command WWI Breakthrough patch v1.02 released.

Logitech to discontinue console gaming products and Harmony remotes.

Military Monday screenshots from January 21st.

Why Red October malware is the Swiss Army knife of espionage.

Hours of playing video games can change brain for the better, research finds.

Screnshots from today's Iron Front Saturday. There was a huge turnout!

SAM Simulator v0.926 is released, bringing the ZSU-23-4V1 Shilka onboard.

DCS has released a 32-minute video overview on their DCS World vision. There are some nice surprises announced in the video.

Train Simulator 2013 - Donner Pass update screenshots.

BI Arma 3 developers freed on bail after 128 days.

The second SimHQ Arma 2 / ACE session in pictures and video.

Rogue System - Teaser 2 has been released.

Video and screenshots from the January 12th Iron Front Saturday.

Low and Slow: Vintage Aircraft in FSX and Prepar3D.

CES mobile gaming report.

The hunting rifle of the future at CES.

NVIDIA Shield at CES.

Razer Edge at CES.

Screenshots from the first Military Monday of the year, A.C.E. style.

DCS World's FC3 MiG-29S demonstrates a TWS dual track launch.

Accu-Feel v.2 Air, Land, and Sea released.

An apples-to-apples comparison between FC2 to FC3 by Wags.

Battle of Britain II v2.12 released!

Chris Dunagen of Obutto says work continues for the accessories on the R3Volution, and that a HOTAS Warthog mount is in work.

Screenshots from the New Year's Day Iron Front "party".

The unofficial official SimHQ Iron Front Holiday Party on New Years Day!

Screenshots and video from the Iron Front D-Day launch Saturday, December 29th.

DCS: A-10C Warthog now on sale on Steam for $10.

FSSB R3 for the HOTAS Warthog is now available.

What game of 2012 have you regretted buying?

A review of computer security highlights from 2012

Fred "HeinKill" Williams has a 2012 highlights retrospective on the air combat sims IL-2: Cliffs of Dover; War Thunder (open beta); BOBII Wings of Victory v2.12 (closed beta); and DCS: P-51D Mustang.


Daily News
August 19-25, 2012

WOFF screenshot of the week.

New free content released for Battle Academy. Have announced the release of a community pack for the tactical strategy game for iPad, PC and Mac.

rFactor 2 test drive with Luciano Bacheta.

rFactor 2 Formula 2 testing... and Nürburgring?

Mirage F1 for DCS?

Update coming on IL-2: Cliffs of Dover?

X-Plane 10 Regional: North America released.

Ubisoft: Piracy rate for PC games is 93-95 percent.

VirtualR: A lap of Silverstone in TMG’s simulator.

ZDNet: The Windows 8 "tutorial" is a joke.

Air & Water Show preview: Blue Angels flight.

Navy Field 2: Conqueror of the Ocean video.

In case you haven't noticed, SimHQ's Teamspeak 3 server activity is now presented in the lower right of this page. Take a look, and check it to quickly see who is online.

Razbam AV-8B Harrier for FSX released.

Microsoft radically overhauls license agreements for Windows 8.

New GTA5 screenshots.

André Böttcher trying Assetto Corsa @ Gamescom.

GamePlan is now available as a free download version in addition to the recently updated full version.

Rising Storm, an add-on for Red Orchestra 2 has been announced.

Congratulations to Pumbaa and Rob Bakker, winners of Sunday's SimHQ SSTCC races at Linkopings, Sweden. Read the drivers reports.

Daily News
August 26 - September 1, 2012

More promotional images from the just announced Flaming Cliffs 3.

Flaming Cliffs 3 F-15 Eagle screenshots.

Lock On: Flaming Cliffs 3 announced for September release.

Best gaming CPUs for the money: August 2012.

Panel Builder 2.1 from RC Simulations.

rFactor 2 Build 107 released.

Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends video review at SRT.

Flight Simulator history.

A Duel in the Sun.

Need a new monitor?

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Collectors Edition revealed.

RaceRoom Racing Experience – Q&A Part 1

Don't let the UN steal the Internet.

VRS TacPack open beta open for pre order customers.

Lunar Flight Mars Update now available and on sale.

Congratulations to "Pumbaa" for winning the SimHQ SSTCC Skandinavia Series! Read drivers reports starting here.

Daily News
September 2 - September 8, 2012

Flaming Cliffs 3 - Beta AAR #2.

HeinKill has updated his IL-2: Cliffs of Dover review to reflect the latest beta patch.

Ghost Recon Online Open Beta Artic Pack will be available on September 12th.

Report: The Wintel era is finally declining.

They're waiting for you Gordon.

SimBin Race Room Racing Experience teaser.

New Wings Over Flanders Fields development screenshots.

Virtual Thunderbirds Prize Giveaway (sponsored by Thrustmaster).

Rise of Flight video: Brandenburg W12 Beta.

Alex Zanardi wins Paralympics gold.

RPS Interview: Ubisoft On DRM, Piracy and PC Games.

Formula Two coming soon in rFactor 2 Beta.

CRJ NextGen v2.0 now available. Prepar3D compatible.

Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm video.

Where's Valve going with Linux?

Is sim racing modding dying?

Flaming Cliffs 3 - Beta AAR #1.

nK Pro Racing coming on October 26th.

"Heinkill" has a new BoB2 v 2.12 beta AAR report.

Inside Sim Racing weekly report.

Discussion continues on theFriday afternoon Flaming Cliffs 3 announcment.

The best tech when going off the grid.

Video from the SimHQ Off-Road Labor Day Fun Run. Thanks, David. ;)

"PFunk" shows off the SF2 Operation Darius mod in his AAR, "The First Night is The Toughest".

Daily News
September 9 - September 15, 2012

Black Mesa Half-Life remake is now available.

Weapons Attachments video.

Google Apps pulls plug on IE 8: Windows XP left out in the cold.

"toonces" reviews the new Obutto R3volution gaming cockpit.

IL-2: Cliffs of Dover announcement and the on-going discussion.

New DLC available on Steam - Arma 2: Army of the Czech Republic.

Flaming Cliffs 3 - Beta After Action Report #3 featuring the Su-25.

New from A2A Aircraft Factory: Albatros D.III (oef) for FSX.

BI developers arrested on Limnos island. Thanks Blues News for the referring link.

Apple's iPhone 5 Event - by the numbers.

Battlefield 3 Armored Kill gameplay video.

ISI has released their Formula 2 mod for rFactor 2 Beta.

Congratulations to "purolator" for winning Sunday's DRM Revival race at Brands Hatch

Daily News
September 16 - September 30, 2012

Power & Glory v3.0 - New article about updates to the U.I.

Accu-Feel v.1.1 update released by A2A Simulations.

Colonel Andy Bush returns to SimHQ as moderator of the "Air Combat Maneuvers & Tactics" forum.

Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour coming to mobile.

Filing a new flight plan: Development starts again on Combat-Helo at the end of September.

PC Gamer Arma 2 article and new vehicle crew communications video by Dslyecxi.

Train Simulator 2013 is out and is a free upgrade for TS 2012 owners.

The iRacing Lotus 49 goes on pre-sale this week.

How NASA mounts a space shuttle on an airplane.

A video comparison of Project CARS track vs the real Nordschleife.

Wings Over Flanders Fields: New developers screenshots.

News from Rise of Flight:

A complete Airbus collection for Prepar3D released from Wilco Publishing.

FS2Crew has released RAAS Professional. The promotional video is here.

The v1.06 patch for Strategic Command WWI 1914-1918 The Great War has been released.

Here's a new game approach.

Kerbal Space Program 0.17 has been released.

Daily News
October 1 - October 13, 2012

Train Simulator 2013 Deluxe Edition now available.

World Rally Championship 3 (WRC3) demo is released for PC.

A second Putnam Park for rFactor 2 – First preview video.

Windows XP has twice the infections of Windows 7.

Panzer Corps Grand Campaign ’42-43 West and Panzer Corps v1.11 now available.

Chris Roberts returns: Star Citizen "Squadron 42" announcement trailer.

A nice VFAT 2012 promotional video from the Virtual Horsemen has been released.

DCS v1.2.1 files mirrored on SimHQ.

Hard drive optimization tips and tricks.

Images from the 2012 Wings Over North Georgia Airshow.

Modman patch for DCS World added.

Fox Network to develop television series based on Battlefield: Bad Company. Thanks Blues News for the referring link.

Out of beta and released: DCS: P-51D Mustang. It's is available here for purchase (scroll down the page).

Third Wire Strike Fighters for Android released.

A beta version of TARS for DCW World v1.21 has been released.

DCS: UH-1H Huey announced.

Cool! Frugals World archive revived!

Rogue System work-in-progress video #4 released.

Next Wednesday (10/10/12), Great Sim Racing will be hosting Class C Silverado's at Daytona. Tune into the web site for live coverage of the 109 lap event. Look for the pink #7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet to charge through the field and challenge the top runners for the win. Race starts at 9 PM EDT.

Magnum comments on the Medal of Honor Warfighter multiplayer open beta.

Yawn.

Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog released.

A new BMS Falcon 4.0 AAR by - Ice.

X-Plane 10.10 is final now.

GameTrailers Project CARS video.

Smithsonian's Art of Video Games to tour across the U.S.

Modern Combat 4 Zero Hour portal now open.

Q&A Part 4 – RaceRoom Racing Experience.

Strategic Command WWI Breakthrough now available.

The Roberts Space Industries reveal is coming soon. Tune-in to the live internet broadcast via Gamespot at 10am EST on October 10, 2012.

DCS World 1.2.1 and module updates released.

Congratulations to Pumbaa for winning Sunday's SimHQ DRM Revival race at Paul Ricard. The final event is next Sunday.

Tactical Formation Flying - Q&A with Andy Bush.

Daily News
October 14 - October 20, 2012

Will PC gamers be happy with Windows 8?

Help GamePlan get on Steam with your vote!

Georgian Hammer - Mission 04 from "BeachAV8R".

Tom's Hardware - Best gaming CPUs for the money: October 2012.

Aerofly FS is now available on Steam at a special promotional price. Thanks to RPS for the referring link. Read the SimHQ review on Aerofly FS.

Battlefield 3: Aftermath first look.

Are racing sims treading the right path?

Race Department interview on Assetto Corsa with Stefano Casillo.

Are modern games being dumbed down?

Project CARS releases Build 323.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 launch trailer shows off so much future tech.

Rogue System Logo Design Contest.

Daily News
October 21 - October 27, 2012

Thrustmaster revamps their Ferrari Challenge racing wheel/pedals with PC/Xbox electronics.

Best SSDs for the money: October 2012.

For Halloween: Railworks 3 Trains vs Zombies DLC.

Windows XP turns 11, still not dead yet.

Official VFAT 2012 Trailer.

BeachAV8R's Georgian Hammer - Mission 05.

Chris Robert's Kickstarter for Star Citizen successful.

Magnum on Forza Horizon.

Combat Mission: Fortress Italy v1.01 patch released.

Mad Catz announces S.T.R.I.K.E.5 professional gaming keyboard.

140 unused Spitfires buried in the Burmese jungle will be dug up.

New development screenshots from Wings Over Flanders Fields.

Tanks!

F-15 aerial dogfighting video entirely by the pilots.

rFactor 2 Build 118 has been released.

ORBX FTX England for FSX just weeks away from release.

Alex Coutie releases Montreal 2008 for rFactor 2.

Add your questions for the interview!

Daily News
October 28 - November 17, 2012

CNN Tech: Why console gaming is dying.

Seven Navy SEALS reprimanded for actions linked to video game.

Update news from Graviteam.

Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog trailer.

*Panther* reports: "oZone users the R3Volution keyboard tray and arm will be available for purchase in the coming months. Source from MPPC post at iRacing forums."

X Motor Racing v1.4 released.

Click here for more details!

DCS World v1.2.2 released.

Lock On: Flaming Cliffs 3 v1.2.2 released (pre-purchase).

DCS: Combined Arms v1.2.2 released (pre-purchase).

DCS: P-51D Mustang v1.2.2 released.

DCS: A-10C Warthog v1.2.2 released.

DCS: Black Shark 2 v1.2.2 released.

Valve's Steam for Linux (Beta) out today.

NVIDIA delivers massive performance boost to Linux gaming. New GeForce drivers optimized for Linux double frame rates, reduce game loading times.

Strategic Command WWI Breakthrough! demo released. This free demo includes three campaigns: 1914 Call To Arms (limited to August -> November of 1914); 1918 Ludendorff (First 5-6 turns);
1918 Russian Civil War (limited to Nov 1918 -> August 1919).

All aboard the space combat train. Here comes another title: David Braben turns to Kickstarter to bring back Elite.

First commercial 787 flight.

We're still here. :)

Happy 10th Birthday Battlefield 1942! And now you can download it for free!

New Assetto Corsa Lotus screenshots.

Get Loaded Sale: Any 2 flight sims out of 6 selected titles for $25! Includes DCS: Black Shark 2, DCS: A-10C Warthog, Take On Helicopters, Take on Hinds, Cliffs of Dover, and Wings of Prey.

The Halberstadt D.II is available for pre-order and there's a big sale on weapons mods over at the Rise of Flight store.

Report: Medal of Honor brand may be dead.

A new video of DCS: MiG 21bis firing unguided rockets has been released.

Several news items for Graviteam's armor sims.

Power & Glory 3 is released!

Milviz has released their F-86F for FSX.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II developer diary: Abbey Road Studios.

Windows 8 versus Windows 7: Game performance benchmarked.

Better on the inside: under the hood of Windows 8.

Daily News
November 17, 2012 - November 24, 2012

Ever wondered if you could make a jet pack from the A-10's GAU-8A cannon?

Steam's rumored Autumn sale appears to be on!

After Action screenshots from SimHQ's November 19th Military Monday event.

A2A Simulations has released our newest aircraft, the Wings of POWER 3: Civilian Mustang.

"Sim" has added a bunch of new DCS: P-51D Mustang screenshots.

Flying With The Mossie.

Iron Front Saturday: November 17th.

SimHQ Arma 2 timeslot discussion.

Flaming Cliffs 3 - Disgruntled Russians. A new video by "ralfidude".

Introducing SweetFX for Rise of Flight.

Crysis 3 footage peers into NYC's nanodome.

Daily News
November 25, 2012 - December 8, 2012

Call of Duty: Black Ops II has crossed the $1 billion mark in worldwide retail sales.

The PC edition of the Aftermath DLC is now available for Battlefield 3 Premium members.

AMD reaffirms commitment to socketed CPUs through at least 2014.

More on this weekend's VFAT 2012.

VTB broadcast times for VFAT 2012.

Screenshots from the first Iron Front multiplayer event of December.

Screenshots and after action reports from SimHQ's Arma 2 session.

Xbox 720 reportedly coming holiday season 2013.

Battle Academy iPad expansions half-price.

Arma 2 based Hell in the Pacific 0.5 beta released.

Accu-Sim core update v1.5.1 released.

Red Storm sponsors Ghost Recon: Future Soldier tournament.

Wags has posted a beautiful screenshot of the new Su-27 in Flaming Cliffs 3.

Things just got much more interesting in the Iron Front world: The "D-Day" add-on has been announced.

Call of Duty could reshape real warfare.

Stunning aviation art reveals WWII fighting that'll never be seen again.

Screenshots and after action reports from SimHQ's Arma 2 Military Monday session.

Watch or download Mystic Puma's two-part documentary on the 325th Fighter Group "The Checkertail Clan", from the P-40, to the P-47, to the P-51.

Scoobe's Harrier AV-8B screenshots from X-Plane 10.

A new patch arriving for Iron Front on Monday? Yep! v1.64 arrives.

Reader "mhe_at" posts on his new Obutto R3Volution Gaming Cockpit configuration.

Elite Dangerous first video of actual gameplay released.

Arma 2 video - Insurgency in the North Caucasian Federal District - War Stories From the Front Lines: # 6 Improvised Building Top Entry by Russian Vityaz.

Rise of Flight Iron Cross boxed edition - $20 USD.

Big news about the future of Steel Beasts Pro PE in 2013.

Screenshots: Norfolk Southern on the Horseshoe Curve.

A big autumn update/patch for Red Orchestra 2.

Interesting discussion! DCS: MiG-21bis... Developer Beczl posts RP-22SMA "how to".

Screenshots from Saturday's Iron Front event. A great turnout as more than a dozen players enjoyed more than 2 hours of COOP and PvP.

Daily News
December 9, 2012 - December 31, 2012

SimHQ Iron Front Saturday's expands to include the new D-Day add-on. Tomorrow's event will be Iron Front with the original content for the first 90 minutes, then we will switch to the new D-Day add-on for the remainder of the event. So now there are two good reasons to join us! Read more details here.

Total Spanish Simulator's Cockpit Genesis.

There is also a Rise of Flight store sale until December 30th on many items.

Between December 25th and January 3rd there is a holiday sale on:
- DCS: A-10C Warthog - 60% (15.99 USD)
- DCS: Black Shark 2 - 40% (23.99 USD)
- DCS: P-51D Mustang - 25% (29.99 USD)

oops... A bunch of news from DCS to close out the year

Rise of Flight Channel Map and Felixstowe released.

New Wings Over Flanders Fields screenshots.

The 12 DayZ of Christmas.

Steam has Train Simulator 2013 on sale for 75% off.

The flare path: A stick for a stone.

Austin and XPlane make the CBS News.

Press announcement for the just released VRS TacPack for FSX:

Vertical Reality Simulations has released the TacPack - a consumer-based combat modification for Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX). The TacPack initial release requires a pre-existing copy of the VRS Superbug (FSX version).

The TacPack for FSX features:

  • A/A and A/G weapons with realistic kinematics and ranges, including missiles, ballistic and guided classes lethal to single-player AI and multi-player participants
  • Destructible objects include and simobject based entity including ships, aircraft an structures
  • Experimental, low-level graphic enhancements including Night-vision, FLIR video, proprietary FPS and pre-render limiters
  • Full A/G and A/A radar simulation utilizing custom drawing routines with full terrain masking
  • ACMI logging and export to TacView (tacview.strasoftware.com), a popular post-flight visualization tool previously reserved for stand-alone simulations
  • In-game deployable Aircraft Carriers, refueling tankers and drones with live navigation infrastructures and point defense systems
  • Deployable SAM sites with team-affiliation
  • Partial and critical damage modeling
  • Team-based multi-player paradigm with IFF
  • Proprietary server publishing functions for easily finding other TacPack sessions without Gamespy
  • 500+ pages of online documentation
  • An SDK allowing third-party low-level integration is scheduled for release in the 1st qtr of 2013

VRS develops high-fidelity combat simulations on the FSX and P3D platforms. VRS products are currently being used for both consumer entertainment and commercial location-based enterprises.

Fighter Ops. Read the entire thread for background.

A flight simmers Christmas card.

Teamspeak 3 app for Apple iOS free for another 3 days.

THQ files for bankruptcy - promises no disruption.

Command: Modern Air / Naval Operations to be published by Matrix Games.

An insightful video: Tragedy and Video Game Violence.

The popular space simulator, Lunar Flight gets full Direct Input support. Watch for a new update on December 20th.

New Combined Arms v1.2.3 videos.

Iron Front mission maker competition 2012 - winners announced.

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Combat Pilot is now available for pre-order.

Military Monday from December 17th... with a special (seasonal) guest player.

SimHQ ACE Arma 2 Announced. First event on January 7, 2013.

Brand new Wings Over Flanders Fields (WOFF) screenshots. Impressive!

Is the final release of VRS TacPack just around the corner?

Screenshots from the huge Iron Front Saturday, December 15 event.

1C and 777 Studios announce partnership on Battle of Stalingrad.

Screenshots from the 12/10/12 SimHQ Arma session.

FSX GameSpy support closed permanently.

A new ultra-configurable flight / racing cockpit chassis from Volair Sim. Read the announcement here.

Gabe Newell confirms Valve working on a PC-based console.

AAR: Mustangs over Samcheok. Inspired by the Australian entry into the Korean War on July 2, 1950.

Screenshots from the Saturday, December 8th Iron Front multiplayer session.

The Virtual Red Arrows are organizing a Christmas Day competition and prizes include a Thrustmaster Warthog! Entries must be completed by Sunday, 9 December.

The v1.11 patch for Combat Mission: Battle for Normandy has just been released.

More information from MPPC regarding Obutto accessories.

More news on Iron Front's D-Day DLC coming mid-December.

 

 
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