IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey

505 Games has confirmed that there will be a patch on the way for the PlayStation 3 version of IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. The patch come fix some of the problems that have plagued the PS3 SKU. It's currently going through QA, with a date to be finalised. Multiple fixes to reported multiplayer disconnections and performance drops · Voice chat issues relating to more than 12 players with headsets at any one time. · Keyboard support and full mapping for all buttons. · Performance boosts for the Berlin missions. · Fixed occasional freezes in single player campaign. · Improved handling for the Mustang P-51. · Improved enemy AI. · Extended support for PC flight sticks. · New separate controls for guns and machine guns.

505 Games has released the first round of downloadable content for their air combat shooter IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey. The DLC is available on both the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network, and adds six new single player missions to the campaign mode across the existing six theatres of war featured in the game. A new plane, the American P47D, previously only available to pre-order customers, is also included.

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With the IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey releasing next week for PS3 and Xbox 360 it is about time that we got a little bit more information on the single player campaign.

GamersDigest writes; 505 Games, in collaboration with 1C Company, today announced that the demo for IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey has reached a combined one million downloads on Xbox LIVE for the Xbox 360 and on PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3.

411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include Fate/Unlimited Codes, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, and Magna Carta 2 (English language version).

PS3-Sense Writes: Today, The Trophy List of IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey has been revealed to the big public. The list has a value of 41 bronze, 7 silver, 2 gold and 1 platinum.

Alex Price writes: Hey guys. Alex Price from 505 Games here. Just wanted to let you know what's landed on the PlayStation Network: The single player demo for upcoming flight combat title IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey, which flies into shops for PSP and PS3 on 4th September.

Mike Kebby writes: Good morning. I hope your collective appetites have been sufficiently wet by all the announcements made at gamescom, I for one am personally very excited about the new additions coming to the PlayStation Network. Talking of wet, WET is one of three demos we have releasing on the store later today (did you see what I did there…ahem, apologies), alongside Mini Ninjas and IL2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey. You can also fling Andy Dick around in Pain from today, as well as get yourself a Street Fighter II themed table for Zen Pinball. We also have another batch of trailers from gamescom, including footage from the Sony press conference.

The multiplayer aspect of the upcoming flight combat title IL-2 Sturmovik from 1C company and 505 games has been detailed in a recent press release and as well as the 50 missions from the single player campaign players will be able to pit their wits against each other in the skies over Europe when the game release on September 4th. There are four multiplayer modes in total and we have detailed them for you here: Dogfight - Players battle it out in the wide blue yonder and look for cloud cover to hide in this free for all deathmatch style game, points are gained for downing your opposing players and the winner will be the pilot who reaches the points goal first. Team Dogfight - Played out in teams with the same rules as Dogfight, squadron vs squadron Strike - A team game were points are awarded for destroying the enemy ground targets, aerial targets are also awarded points but at a lower score. The winning team will be the one with the most points when the time runs out or reaches the score target first. So whether your flying a bomber with a massive payload to destroy the ground targets or a World War 2 ace flying in support and fending of the attacking aircraft its definitely team work that will win the day. Capture the Airfield - Another team game but one that it is sure to bring out the best in any budding fighter pilot, teams have to control as many of the airfields on the map as possible by landing on them and capturing them. The more airfields you control the quicker the opposing teams tickets are whittled away and the victor will be the team with the most tickets left at the end of the game or when one team has no tickets left. Don't sit around though as stationary aircraft make excellent targets so you'll have to take to the skies to defend your airfield and push the advancing fighters back. Anyway check out the multiplayer trailer and watch out over the skies of Europe on Septe...