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AIRWARE SIMAIRPORT LvGameDev, $25 Most airplanes are useless without an airport, and SimAirport (SA) gives us a glimpse into the world of airport design (requires Windows 7, 4GB RAM, GeForce [...]

AIRWARE TINY COMBAT ARENA Microprose, $20 Airware prefers to look at completed software rather than betas or previews, but Tiny Combat Arena (requires Windows 10, 1GB RAM, 1GB hard drive [...]

AIRWARE I AM AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER 4 TechnoBrain Co., Ltd., $59.99. Air traffic controllers are like linemen in American football. They are the unsung players on the field without [...]

AIRWARE WINGS OVERFLANDERS FIELDS Between Heaven and Hell II OBD Software, overflandersfields.com, 2021, $45. It's been years since the appearance of Wings Over Flanders Fields, but the developers of that [...]

AIRWARE MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR Xbox Game Studios, 2020, $59.99. Fans of the grandfather of all consumer-grade flight simulations last saw action from this storied franchise in 2006 when Flight Simulator [...]

RED BARON PACK Mad Otter Games, $10. The Red Baron Pack is a rerelease of a set of older World War I flight simulations available through Steam. It combines the [...]

AIRWARE DIGITAL COMBAT SIMULATOR YAK-52 Eagle Dynamics SA and The Fighter Collection Ltd, $40. The old phrase 'You must learn to crawl before you can walk' may be a cliche [...]

AIRWARE PLANE MECHANIC SIMULATOR Movie Games S.A., $12. Offering something completely different, Plane Mechanic Simulator (PM) pays homage to the people without whom no aircraft could fly. PM is the [...]

AIRWARE SA342 GAZELLE Digital Combat Simulator, $49.99. It's refreshing to get a glimpse at the aircraft of other nations since the United States has such a heavy influence on most [...]

AIRWARE AEROFLY FS 2 IPACS, $59.99for PC, $35.99 Mac, $6.99 iPhone & iPad, $3.99 Android. A competition always leaves entrants that place behind the top competitor. Consider two competition losers, [...]

Air racing combines the power and grace of flight with the spirit of competition. Red Bull Air Race 2 (.RBAR2) (Android or Apple mobile device, airrace.redbull.com/ themobilegame) is a free [...]

AIRWARE BOMBER CREW Runner Duck Games Ltd., $14.99. The Avro Lancaster is not featured often in games, but Bomber Crew (available at curve-digital.com) does its best to rectify this. The [...]

The article reviews the War Thunder multiplayer video game developed by Gaijin Entertainment.

AIRWARE A-10C Operation Piercing Fury Campaign Ranger 79 Productions, digital-combatsimulator.com, $9.99. Simulations driven by a zeal for technical authenticity often miss out on other facets of realism. A-10C: Operation Piercing [...]

AIRWARE SIMPLEPLANES Jundroo LLC, simpleplanes.com, $12.99. SimplePlanes puts the power of creation into the hands of players, letting them design, build and operate airplanes, cars and boats. The game proves [...]

MS FLIGHT SIMULATOR REBOOT A classic sim is about to get a new lease on life For a change this time I'd like to share a story from real life [...]

The fifth and perhaps last of the Close Combat series, Close Combat--Invasion: Normandy ($40, requires a Pentium 200 with Windows 95/98/Me, 32 MB RAM, 4X CD-ROM drive, www.closecombat.com) returns to [...]

Rising Sun took the tested wargame engine of Talonsoft's Campaign series to the brutal islands of the Pacific ($29.95, requires a Pentium 200 with Windows 95/98/Me, 32 MB RAM, 4X [...]

Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord ($45, requires a Pentium 200 with Windows 95/98 or Apple Mac 6O3e 200 Mhz with MacOS 7.5, 32 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, www.battlefront.com) is available only [...]

Talonsoft's Hidden & Dangerous ($50; requires Pentium 166 MMX, Windows 95, 16 MB RAM, 10 MB hard-drive space, quad-speed CD-ROM and 3D video card) takes the user for a tour [...]

FLYING TIGERS Shadows Over China Ace Maddox, 2016, $19.99. The American Volunteer Group, better known as the Flying Tigers, has always conjured romantic images of World War II aviation. Flying [...]

AIRWARE MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR Steam Edition store.steampowered.com, $24.99. Recently 'Airware' mentioned the pending release of Microsoft Flight Simulator X(FSX) Steam Edition to the Steam gaming client. It's nice to see [...]

AIRWARE IL-2 STURMOVIK: BATTLE OF STALINGRAD il2sturmovik.com, $60. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Even famous design bureaus can produce flawed products, and that appears to be what happened with IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of [...]

AIRWARE MIG-21BIS Leatherneck Simulations, leather neck-sim.com, $50. The Cold War produced two very different supersonic jets, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and its nemesis, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Fishbed. Both [...]

BUZZ ALDRIN'S SPACE PROGRAM MANAGER Slitherine.com, $30. Simulations about life outside the cockpit are rare. Buzz Aldrins Space Program Manager is a plucky independent effort that takes players into the [...]

THE COLD WAR IS ONE PART OF HISTORY RARELY visited by aviation simulations. Perhaps scenarios where American Navy fighters stared down Russian bombers and ended without any shots being fired [...]

The developers of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X (FSX) deserve some credit. Each new version of the lasting franchise seems to produce a handful of new features or a theme inspiring [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THIS AIRWARE INSTALLMENT highlights two affordable add-ons to existing products. One, an expansion pack for the popular teamwork simulator Battlefield 2, includes a futuristic scenario that actually parallels […]

New to the free-to-play movement, DCS World is a high-realism simulation integrating formerly separate products such as DCS: Black Shark and the Flaming Cliffs series to a common digital battlefield. [...]

Though some predicted they'd be dead by now, flight simulations continue to thrive in various forms. Kerbal Space Program (kerbalspaceprogram.com), which costs $27, puts the gamer in charge of the [...]

Vietnam War flight simulations are usually interesting because they're rare. This controversial period in history saw pivotal policy changes in military aviation, with valuable lessons learned on the battlefield, such [...]