Summary: Hosted by Eric McClintock, Cam, and Adam. Listen Here: Subscribe to automatically get the latest podcast: iTunes, Zune, RSS XML, E-Mail, All Other. R.I.P. Paulo Emanuele... End of an Era - Part II From Phil Taylor's Blog: "Aces did not get shuttered because FSX sold poorly. To the contrary, FSX sold decently, as this post recounted. And this post places its sales as north of 1 million units. Aces had "internal issues" at the wrong time. They got caught in a game of musical chairs without a chair." What do I mean by that? They had issues in trying to develop 3 releases simultaneously ( TS2, ESP2, FS11 ) with current resources and had a schedule change as a result. For the Flight franchise, P-12C ( Paul Lange, lead designer for FS 11 ) replied on this thread that the team asked if they could buy the IP and spin out, and was refused. On a forum post, P-12C says "the answer was that MS believes in the IP and would not be willing to sell it.". For the Train Sim franchise, Stone Lance ( Steve Heister, Core graphics programmer ) confirms TS2 is gone. ESP is similarly gone. Read the entire post. [Link] Carenado's C172N Skyhawk II for FS2004 Released Interactive vir...
