While Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has been about barely a couple of weeks now, the community are already fast at work on making MSFS 2020 so much better. One area where the community and modders have really stepped up is fixing scenery and landmarks in the game.
It turns out that Bing Maps is not as comprehensive or as detailed as Google Maps, so some landmarks are missing and existing buildings improperly converted into 3D models using Blackshark.ai’s 2D to 3D generation artificial intelligence algorithm.
One of the most frustrating and annoying features of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is waiting for the game to load past the splash screen logos (which take forever), only for it to go to a pointless screen that tells you to, “Press Any Key to Start” which then makes you wait for the game to load again.
It turns out that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has a fast launch flag you can specify which will skip the publisher and partner splash logos at the start as well as remove the background video. The game takes seconds to load.
Recently announced Nintendo financials reveal that Nintendo has posted an operating profit of 427.7% for the quarter of April to June 2020. In that single quarter, they made 144.7 billion yen ($1.4 billion USD). To put that into perspective, the same quarter in 2019 they made a 10.2% profit.
It makes sense considering for most of 2020 thus far, many of us have been cooped up in our houses and gaming is a great source of entertainment, especially if you have children and looking for family-friendly games. Nintendo has become the soundtrack to the pandemic, especially in our household.
File this one under, “peak 2020”
Some Sony fans online are upset that the Playstation 5 console will allegedly not be backwards compatible with Playstation titles prior to Playstation 4. This means any games released for the Playstation 3 and older might not be playable.
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The information comes from the next-gen support page on the Ubisoft website. The triggering line for Sony fans has since been deleted, quite possibly because of the backlash it seems to have generated and it now looks like this.
Well, this is only mildly infuriating. The Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 team have released the patch notes for an update coming in seven days for the game, which many hoped would fix some of the dismal performance issues in the game.
Well, it turns out performance optimisations are taking a backseat to primarily fixing the installer…
The patch notes header, “Install Issues” has the largest number of items in it:
The install process will no longer be blocked after a partial decompression of a package The install process will no longer be blocked when a local user account includes non-ASCII characters The install process will no longer be blocked after a failed connection to servers The install process will no longer display an empty onboarding screen under certain conditions The title will download a critical missing/deleted package to access the main menu even if the save data preference is set to offline (when an internet connection is available)
This has been one of the most anticipated games for me on the Nintendo Switch ever since the console was released. I own Rocket League already on PC and Playstation 4, and you would assume the hype would have been lost on me: nope.
If you’re new to Rocket League or not familiar with it, it’s a physics heavy arena-based soccer game where you knock a soccer ball around with a car. There are two teams and the aim is to get as many goals as possible before the time runs out.
Sony’s latest PlaystationVR headset is arguably a smash hit. While competitors Oculus Rift and HTC Vive offer superior quality offerings, they require PC’s with approximately $1500 of hardware to power them.
Given the headset only was released today, we are bound to see either Sony or the modding community make this thing work on a PC soon enough.
Given that the PSVR headset is essentially what Rift and Vive are; optics, screen, sensors and software, we are bound to see the PSVR headset working on a PC.
I am stoked for the Playstation VR headset for the Playstation 4 console. Pricing was announced at $399 USD and the Australian price is $550. Sony did reveal that it would be priced as a new platform, so this falls directly inline with the cost of a PS4 console.
Keep in mind this figure does not account for the cost of the Playstation Camera: $59 USD/$75 AUD and Playstation Move controllers: $49 USD/$46 AUD each.
Finally. A game that started to feel like was never going to be released has a release date. Announced at Paris Games Week, the Hello Games produced highly anticipated game No Man’s Sky finally has a release date.
June 2016 You can almost guarnatee that this game has virtual reality support up the wahzoo. Mark that month now in your calendars, unless of course we see any delays, next year the gaming landscape changes and we finally get to start exploring planets, battling, depleting planets of their natural resources and profiting from it.
The new Star Wars Battlefront trailer has dropped, giving us a glimpse at new aspects of this highly anticipated game.
EA has had a pretty bad run over the years when it comes to games, especially day one and a few weeks after dealing with issues (like Battlefield 4 and Hardline). After playing the beta, I am slightly more hopeful that Battlefront might be a new leaf in EA’s book, it might be playable on day one and that excites me further.