Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is, in certain ways, the most technically impressive game we’ve ever seen. And its inclusion in the Xbox Game Pass for PC means that the skies over all the world’s cities will be filled up with digital planes and their gobsmacked pilots for quite some time.

But not all cities are built equal in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, with 341 cities in particular having been recreated in stunning photorealistic detail using photogrammetric data from Bing Maps. Read on to find out exactly where these 341 photorealistic cities can be found across the Earth.

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Reader, I’m not super fussed about planes. I didn’t think Microsoft Flight Simulator would be for me, but this morning my eyes were opened. The game is gorgeous, most trailers and screenshots will attest to that, but that wasn’t what really caught my attention. What grabbed me was how much wildlife there is to see. It seemed logical that it had birds and airborne creatures, but there are elephants and giraffes and bears, too!

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The 1v1 PvP murder competition, Ghost Mode will not return in Hitman 3. Developers Io Interactive say they’re focusing on other parts of the game instead. Not only will Ghost Mode be absent from the next game, Io will shut down the Ghost Mode servers in Hitman 2 at the end of this month. Sniper Assassin’s co-op mode is also getting shut down. Goodbye, ghosts. Walk towards the light.

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Trying to write about Space Station 13 is inevitably a complete nightmare, as by the time you’ve explained what it is to any degree of adequacy, you’re approaching long read territory. But since this is a cheery little “hey, check out this interesting game” post, I’m going to try it in 100 words. Let’s go.

SS13 is a top-down, multiplayer, session-based RPG, where people take on jobs aboard a space station, and can interact with everything> therein. It was originally a sober atmospherics sim built in freeware engine BYOND, but after the code became public, it… evolved. These days, SS13 exists as a spectrum of wildly different, community-run servers. Some are semi-serious roleplay environments. Some are anarchic. Some don’t even feature space stations. Most are “hidden traitor” games, but they all share two things in common: they’re a pain in the arse to play, but it’s worth it for the stories they generate.

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It was too much to hope for that Epic Games and Apple would take their fight quietly to a court room, it seems. After their very dramatic 1984 propaganda spinoff video, Epic are committed to having it out in public. The latest legal maneuver in the proceedings comes from Epic, who have asked the a US district court for northern California to prevent Apple from terminating their developer program account and reinstate Fortnite in the App Store.

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When one turn blends into the next and you’ve become a strategy zombie—no not the Red Death zombie mode—it’s time to shake up your game. Firaxis Games are bringing another free update to Civilization VI that will help you put some surprise back in your 4x. A new Tech and Civics Shuffle Mode and other changes are coming at the end of August.

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So far as I can tell, everyone’s fallen hard for Fall Guys – Ultimate Knockout, the ideal blend of slapstick physics and competitive rage. The skins you can deck out your little fellas with are something else—from birds to pirates to dinosaurs. Mediatonic are betting that brands would quite like to slap their colors on a skin for gaming’s current darling. They’ve challenged interested parties to make the highest donation to charity organisation Special Effect.

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Lots of folks use Steam and lots of developers release their games on Steam. Thanks to the Steam Community in the Steam store, it’s also a handy way for developers to let players know about upcoming updates or development progress on games that haven’t released yet. Steam’s new guidance to developers dictates that their Steam communication with players shouldn’t mention availability anywhere else.

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Mortal Shell

tries desperately hard to emulate its hero Dark Souls, while also attempting to carve out its own weird niche. Expect a big toad NPC to blurt out something like “Apocryphal intestines lie in the heart of darkness!” while you’re being smacked in the bum by a crazed villager wielding a lute. But scrape away all the spooky-big-words dressing and you’ve got a fairly strong Soulslike beneath the gubbins.

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The PC Gaming Weekspot, RPS’ weekly look at PC games news, returns this very night (right now, in fact, 6pm BST) for the RPS VidBuds to entertain you live and on your screens. This week Colm and Matthew will be taking a look at the Halo Infinite delay announced last week, new details on Dead Space developer Visceral Games’ cancelled Star Wars game, Epic Games taking on Apple and Google over Fortnite, and more! All with interaction and input from you, the viewer, as you get involved in the chat.

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