Microsoft Flight Simulator is one of the most photorealistic games ever made, and sometimes it can even look better than real life. Microsoft Flight Simulator (left) vs real-life footage (right).

It’s 8 a.m. on a clear, sunny day in Oakland, California. No, it’s a rainy afternoon in Hong Kong. Or is it evening in Paris? Microsoft Flight Simulator doesn’t care. At a time when gorgeous “open ...

RENTON, Wash. — Thanks to Microsoft’s hyper-realistic new version of Flight Simulator, I now know what it’s like to fly a Cessna 72SP Skyhawk airplane over my neighborhood … then crash it into the ...

You can go anywhere in the world in Microsoft Flight Simulator. You rotate a 3D globe, find somewhere you want to fly, click on it, and after a loading break, you're there—either on the runway ready ...

I paused to take in the surroundings as my little yellow bush plane taxied to a stop at Moloka‘i Airport. Final approach had been beautiful. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky as I lined up on the runway ...

We've had a steady drip-feed of new information on Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is due out later this year - there's the lavish cockpits, the impressive weather technology, the 37,000 ...

Raise your seat backs and tray tables, Microsoft is taking off again with its refresh of the classic “Flight Simulator” franchise. The company announced Monday that it would be ready for PC on Aug. 18 ...

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The game pulls in meteorological data to recreate what's happening in the world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Going on the ...

One of the most anticipated games this year is Microsoft’s Flight Simulator 2020. Not only do the graphics look lush and detailed, but it’ll simulate the entire flying world, including all 37,000 real ...

“Microsoft Flight Simulator” is revealing itself to be a landmark game, particularly this last week with two disasters. Earlier this week, scientists and novice stormchasers used the game to observe ...

Just how accurate is Microsoft Flight Simulator, anyway? I'm not really in any position to check right now, but that's okay because someone else has done it instead. While onboard a recent ...