This Week in Flight Simulation News – August 16 to August 22, 2026

Flight simulation is, without a doubt, one of the most active industries in gaming. No day passes without news and reveals. Yet, not everyone has the time to keep track of all of them.

If you’re among those who can’t, don’t worry! We just published our 69th weekly video overview, including the major announcements and releases from the past week.

Of course, our videos are published on top of our daily news coverage, which isn’t going anywhere. They’re simply a handy weekly recap presented in a convenient format for those who prefer to consume their news this way.

No video shorter than an hour would be able to cover all the news from last week comprehensively. Yet, we believe this provides a handy selection of releases and reveals to give you a good overview of what is going on. Incidentally, you can watch the 68th episode from the previous week if you so wish.

This week, we covered major flight simulators like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, MSFS 2020, DCS World, and X-Plane 12. Of course, we will also cover other sims when they are featured in major news.

If you want even more news and more reveals, you can read our daily articles, which you’ll also find conveniently linked just below the video.

Without further ado, you can watch the 69th episode below. Of course, we’d appreciate it if you could like the video and subscribe to our growing YouTube channel, as that’s always extremely helpful and appreciated.

Here’s a list of all of our flight simulation news and articles for the week:

We also have a series of shorts challenging you to identify which airport is portrayed. Check out our “Can You Guess This Airport?” video series.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is also available for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is available for PC and Xbox Series X|S.

X-Plane 12 is currently available for PC, including Mac and Linux.

DCS World is available exclusively for PC.

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