April 29, 2013
For me, there are only two kinds of simulator games which actually get me interested - city management games and flight simulators. However, anyone who’s looked at getting a simulation game will have quickly discovered that they are not cheap. In fact, SimCity currently goes for $60, or $80 if you consider the Deluxe Edition. Good flight simulation software isn't much different. So which flight simulators are both free and good enough to use?
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April 25, 2013
Remember when SimCity first came out? When you sank days into what by modern standards is a simple simulation? Nothing quite like it existed before, and it took the world by storm – and killed more than a few of your weekends. Well, you can experience the original city simulation all over again – free of charge. Micropolis is a free city simulator you'll almost certainly find familiar – but it's not just some clone.
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February 14, 2013
It's a city building game with a twist - instead of dealing with economics, politics and waste management, you just build a utopia. For fun. And you clone people too! It's a creative, methodical but altogether casual attempt at a classic genre and the result is like crack for your thumbs. After all, SimCity isn't out for a few months yet, and so this is probably the best way to scratch the city-building itch until then.
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February 7, 2013
After spending the last 48 hours passing through various airports, sleeping very little and being crammed into economy airplane seating I don't think I'll ever consider a career in commercial aviation. Jet lag aside, there are only so many impatient travellers and take-off procedures I can stomach in one week. I'd rather pretend with the aid of my iPhone and Pocket Planes, another of those oh-so-popular micro-management games.
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February 6, 2013
Air Wings is available for both iOS and Android. We are flying with the review on the version for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Air Wings requires iOS 5.0 or later. Air Wings is a multiplayer online air simulation game and there is no solo mode. So, make sure you are ready to go up against the best of the rest.
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October 25, 2012
Lots of people are very concerned about issues that affect their local communities, and maybe even their country, but are you the kind of person that's actually also very concerned about the entire world itself? It is very clear to people how certain things like the economy, industry, pollution and population directly affects elements of the local community.
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October 20, 2012
Air traffic controllers have some of the most important jobs out there -- without the passengers even noticing, they route any plane you fly on through the sea of other planes in the air. It's thanks to them that planes don't crash into each other mid-flight, and they're often put under a lot of stress with the amount of planes they're responsible for at a time. To better understand what they have to go through, there's a game available for Android devices where you can test your own skills at controlling the skies.
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August 22, 2012
If a picture speaks a thousand words, then how many words would an entire simulated reality speak? All we know about our universe is gleaned from photographs (granted, not only of the visual light spectrum kind) and first-hand accounts from rovers, probes, and astronauts. But what if you could explore the universe through a surprisingly accurate simulation - for free? Universe Sandbox is the self-proclaimed "interactive astronomy software for everyone".
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July 27, 2012
They say that the most innovative ideas arise when someone takes two generally unrelated ideas and combines them into a cohesive and useful result. Is that really what innovation comes down to? Maybe, maybe not--I’m not exactly qualified to make that judgment. However, every once in a while we’ll see an idea come along that proves the statement to be true, and Seaquence is one of those ideas.
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May 10, 2012
When it's time to lay out a network, whether it's on a large scale at a corporation or on a small scale at your house, wouldn't it be nice to lay out all of your network devices, their IP settings, and then simulate whether or not your network will work as expected? That's exactly what you can do with the open source network simulator called NetEmul.
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April 13, 2012
We love making models here at MUO. But one problem with tweaking a model design in the real world is that to test it, you have to rebuild a rocket with new parameters, do a test launch, and then head back to the drawing board to further improve your design. What if you could use a computer to simulate a model rocket launch, with the ability to modify and test all of the possible alterations you can make to your rocket design?
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March 12, 2012
As a kid, I've always loved to play with flight simulators. I still do today, except the ones we get to enjoy today are way more advanced than what I got to play with about 13 years ago (although the same applies to all games). While today's flight simulators are much more advanced, they also carry a price tag which not everyone may want to pay. So what's the best free flight simulator known to man? FlightGear of course!
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March 2, 2012
The next iteration of Microsoft’s answer to flight simulations, Microsoft Flight, has finally been released for free on the Games for Windows platform. In December we reported that MS had put out a call for beta testers, and now development team Microsoft Studios has deemed the “freemium” title ready for public consumption. It won’t cost [...]
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January 11, 2012
Windows 8 is fast approaching, expected to arrive sometime in 2012. Not everyone is going to want to download the developer preview version of Windows 8 currently being hawked by Microsoft. Or the Windows 8 beta due to be made available shortly. Thankfully you don't have to do so in order to get a basic feel for how the latest - and if you believe the hype, greatest - OS from Microsoft will shape up.
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September 26, 2011
"Color blindness" is defined as the inability to see certain colors the way most human beings do. It is impossible to quickly and clearly explain what color blindness feels like and how color blind people may perceive your website, but luckily it is possible to see it with your own eyes. Here are a few very easy tools to visualize color blindness for you.
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