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Microsoft Flight Simulator Dev Asobo Secures Investment to Preserve “Creative Autonomy” Jan 21, 2021 12:54 EST Whenever folks start speculating about who Microsoft might purchase next, one name is always top of the list – Asobo Studio. Microsoft has been snapping up everyone from Obsidian and Double Fine to Bethesda, and yet, the developer of the critically-acclaimed Microsoft Flight Simulator remains on the table. Why is that? Well, it seems it may be a simple case of Asobo not bein...

WILL It’s been a BIG year, so it’s time to celebrate the great work of game developers around the world and all they’ve done to keep our lives full of gaming greatness. GEM Now, today we’ve got three major awards: Best Multiplayer game, Best Singleplayer game, and of course our 2020 Game of The Year!  RAD But as we go we’ll also be handing out our awards For Achievements in Oddly Specific Fields of Excellence… So without further ado, here are our first winners for 2020… BEST GAME...

Theyre taking many of the old decisions out of the hands of the pilots, which makes it incumbent upon the pilots to really understand the computer systems that are driving their aircraft. so when something does go wrong they can diagnose it, take over and save their aircraft. >> so boeing is trying to put safety first in all of this, but we have a "wall street journal" report that is out. youve seen this, this week. a former senior pilot for the company complained years ago that he actually felt...

Aviation, and enjoys geeky things like showing people how to set up an air conditioning unit, and everything after the last verbal contact e seems to the say to me that everything was normal. >> right. so miles obrien, a similar question, and you to look at every single possibility, but in some instances, you know, the pilots names have been dragged through the mud here, but still no evidence that they did anything wrong. >> and you know, they have families, too. dont forget that, and what a hor...

Those deleted files? >> i think so. i hope so. at least, it will tell us what it was he was practicing. and what locations he was aiming for and what the headings and settings were that he put into that flight sim. >> the designated path from kuala lumpur to beijing, china, was programmed into the aircrafts flight management computer, which controls speed, direction, even altitude. but according to the transpon r transponder, 26 minutes after takeoff, that prearranged course was dramatically alt...

The pilots and what are they finding? >> in particular the one blo belonging to the captain, we have learned that there were deletions. this contained the flight sim y simulator that they have looked at. some were done after authorities began exsal am inning this. or some didnt enter the home. it is hard to explain this and i think the fbi is trying to figure that out now randy. a lot of concern that there is only two weeks left for the