{"id":32121,"date":"2012-02-07T09:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32121"},"modified":"2012-02-07T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T07:56:11","slug":"free-to-play-microsoft-flight-gets-a-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32121-free-to-play-microsoft-flight-gets-a-release-date","title":{"rendered":"Free-to-play Microsoft Flight gets a release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has announced that its <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21041-F2P-Free-to-Play\">free-to-play<\/a> Microsoft Flight Simulator will be out on 29 February. The latest iteration of the iconic franchise will be aimed at a more casual audience, as opposed to the serious flight enthusiasts that previous games in the series catered for.<\/p>\n<p>Simply called Microsoft Flight, the sim will be available as a free download at www.microsoftflight.com, and additional content packs will be available for purchase, including the Hawaiian Adventure Pack &#8211; which includes additional Hawaiian Islands, a new plane and 20 new missions. The <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20301-DLC-Downloadable-Content\">DLC<\/a> will cost 1,600 Microsoft points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was an overwhelming demand for access to the \u2018Microsoft Flight\u2019 beta and the number of requests was far more than what we initially planned for,\u201d said executive producer Joshua Howard. \u201cWe received amazing feedback from the beta participants and it\u2019s great to see this level of excitement from fans as we move toward the release of \u2018Microsoft Flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0XuoC79IKoY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s latest flight sim out later this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":32122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,451,1994,91,2284],"class_list":["post-32121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-dlc","tag-free-to-play","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-flight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32132,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32121\/revisions\/32132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}