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http://www.wpcentral.com/dovetail-games-resurrect-flight-simulator-series-using-microsoft-tech
Also, Dovetail Games will be continuing the franchise:
I'm a little concerned about the new games' ability to be competitive in this day and age, considering that FSX is approaching a decade old at this point. Microsoft Flight may have been a disaster overall, but it did have pretty good improvements over the FSX engine in terms of performance and graphics--too bad they're not able to integrate those.
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition will be released in late 2014 on Valve's game download service via Dovetail Games. It will contain the content in the Gold edition of the 2006 released Microsoft Flight Simulator X combined with its Acceleration Expansion Pack.
Also, Dovetail Games will be continuing the franchise:
The bigger news is that Dovetail Games will use the Flight Simulator engine from Microsoft to create new flight sim games on its own. Dovetail said that it is "currently investigating new concepts in this area and is expecting to bring a release to market in 2015." The specific financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
I'm a little concerned about the new games' ability to be competitive in this day and age, considering that FSX is approaching a decade old at this point. Microsoft Flight may have been a disaster overall, but it did have pretty good improvements over the FSX engine in terms of performance and graphics--too bad they're not able to integrate those.