The Top Gun: Maverick expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator has technically been delayed as a result of the movie's recent delay.

Asobo Studio and Microsoft have been clear from the start that Flight Simulator's Top Gun expansion would be released alongside the release of Top Gun: Maverick in theaters. As such, the release date was theoretically the same as Top Gun: Maverick's release date.

Now, due to Top Gun: Maverick's delay, the Flight Simulator expansion has been delayed as well, as reported by Eurogamer.

"Paramount Pictures recently shifted the release date of Top Gun: Maverick to Memorial Day weekend, May 27, 2022," a blog post on the official Flight Simulator page reads. "As we have previously announced, the Top Gun: Maverick expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 10 PC, Steam, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox Game Pass will be released alongside the movie. We look forward to sharing more information."

This news comes just days after Paramount announced a string of delays that leaves the studio without a single theatrical release for the rest of 2021. One of those delays was for Top Gun: Maverick — it was delayed from its November 19, 2021, release date to May 27, 2022.

Oddly enough, Top Gun: Maverick, which stars Tom Cruise, took the release date originally set for Cruise's other upcoming blockbuster, Mission: Impossible 7. The action sequel will now instead be released on August 22, 2022.

While waiting for both Top Gun: Maverick and the Top Gun-themed expansion coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator, check out these screenshots from the Top Gun expansion shown during Xbox's 2021 E3 conference. Read about how Cruise wasn't going to make a Top Gun sequel unless Val Kilmer was in it after that and then read about how the Navy stopped Cruise from flying an actual jet in Top Gun: Maverick.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

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Wonder Woman 1984 director, Patty Jenkins, says films released by streaming services look like "fake movies."

This news comes by way of the LA Times, which reports that during a panel discussion hosted by the publication, Jenkins explained that all of the films streaming services like Netflix and HBO Max put out look fake. She said that releasing movies on streaming services isn't a working model.

"All of the films that streaming services are putting out, I'm sorry, they look like fake movies to me," Jenkins said. "I don't hear about them. I don't read about them. It's not working as a model for establishing legendary greatness."

Jenkins said this in response to Paramount Pictures’ domestic distribution president, Chris Aronson, who said that once a movie is released on TV, no matter what it was originally made for, "it's a TV film."

The Wonder Woman 1984 director then explained that she feels Netflix and other streaming services do have a place in the entertainment media industry — the making of movies just isn't that place.

"I also have a deal to make things for Netflix, because I really believe in limited series and television series," Jenkins said. "As a filmmaker, there are stories I want to tell…that are longer and don't fit into the movie format. Streaming is great for massive amounts of content and bingeing TV shows."

She goes on to say that making movies and making longer-form content such as TV shows and limited series are "two very different skill sets." She said she sees them succeeding as two very different things — not as formats that intermingle with each other.

"That's why I think it's a mistake for the film industry to throw away something so valuable," Jenkins said. "I think we have to be very clear about the absolute necessity for [theatrical releases]. I've talked to many filmmakers about all of us uniting, and if someone does guarantee a theatrical run, we will literally go out of our way and take less fee, all kinds of things, to guarantee that your film has a chance of success in this certain kind of way."

IGN recently reported that Jenkins felt the release of Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max was "heartbreaking" and "detrimental," but ultimately the "best choice." WarnerMedia reported that "nearly half" of its HBO Max subscriber base watched Wonder Woman 1984, though, and Warner Bros. already greenlit a third Wonder Woman movie, so the streaming release might not have been as detrimental as Jenkins believes it to be.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.

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Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the creator of PUBG, wants to create the biggest sandbox-style open-world game ever with his new studio.

The PlayerUnknown Twitter account posted a five-minute video today featuring Greene talking directly to the camera about his studio's aspirations, as reported by Eurogamer.

In it, Greene discusses his fascination with open-world games, how he wants to create games at a scale seldom seen, and more.

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"And since [getting lost in the open fields of Chernarus in DayZ], I've held this deep fascination with sandbox-style open-world games and the freedoms that they give players, but I always just wished they were a bit bigger," Greene says in the video. "So that's our mission as a studio. We want to create realistic sandbox worlds on a scale that's seldom attempted — worlds hundreds of kilometers across with thousands of players interacting, exploring, and creating."

Greene says one of the biggest problems with creating a game world at this scale is there simply isn't "a way to fill these massive spaces with content, assets, game mechanics, locations," and more. He says the key to making worlds bigger than what humans can currently accomplish is getting machines to help.

His new studio, which does not yet have a public name, has created such a machine and this machine is a neural network that gives his team a way to learn and "generate massive realistic open worlds at runtime, or to put it another way, each and every time you press play."

All this talk of machine-learning and world creation brings Greene to Prologue, a game first teased at the 2019 Game Awards.

"Prologue is meant to serve as a simple introduction to an early iteration of our technology and a chance to look at what we accomplished by leveraging machine learning," Greene says in the video. "In Prologue, you'll need to find your way across a runtime-generated wilderness and use found tools, and gather resources, to survive on a journey where harsh weather is your constant foe."

He says there will be no guidance in Prologue, no path to follow, or anything leading you forward — just a spot on a map to reach and the tools necessary to reach that spot.

"We've also decided to release Prologue as a tech demo, rather than a complete game, as a way for you to experience an early iteration of our terrain generation tool,” Greene says.

With Prologue now being released as a tech demo and not a complete game, Greene says players will be able to pay what they want for the demo. There's no mention of when Prologue will actually be released, though, and it's unclear if the tech demo will be free, with players having the ability to pay money for it if they'd like, or if there will be a base price.

"Prologue is the first step on a multi-year journey towards creating rich and interactive open worlds," Greene says as the video nears its end.

For more, check out the Prologue teaser released during the 2019 Game Awards and then read about how Greene left PUBG Corp to create a new independent studio after that.

Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.