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Lucasfilms will finally be releasing George Lucas' passion project, Red Tails, in US theaters January 20th. This action-packed movie is based on the true story of African-American pilots who experienced segregation during World War II. Although they were in the Tuskegee training program, they spent most of their time on the ground rather than in the air until they were called to duty by Col. A.J. Bullard. Lucas has spent over 23 years and $93M of his own money to take the movie to the big screen.

When asked about the difficulties he had in getting the movie made, Lucas responded:

Well, Will Smith's not in it and it's not a sequel. If we had that, we wouldn't have had the problem.

A World of Planes Alpha tester has given us yet another video from the upcoming game and it sure looks promising - graphicswise anyway.

Here you may also see the two clips released before, just press "READ MORE".

The gang over at 1C/Maddox Games wish us all a Happy New year with a few screenshots of the upcoming sequel and some reassuring words about the continued work with Clod.

So Daidalos are warming us up for the release of the next official patch for IL2 1946; 4.11.

They have released a readme for the patch which can be downloaded (21 pages!!) here. (MEGAUPLOAD.COM).
The patch contains things like:

Main Features
• 6DoF support with over 100 fixed cockpits
• AI improvements
• Improved radiator & overheat modeling
• Difficulty option changes
• Bomb fuzes
• Stationary plane spawning
• Reworked bomb damage
• Control surface & pilot's head positions transferred over network
• Mouse wheel zoom

CloD, as you all know, is still in "progress" so to speak. The months following the release have been quite turbulent in regards to the community around IL2 series. Many of us have been more than dissappointed about the state in which Cliffs of Dover was released. Maddox Games have continued to work with the game in different areas and from what we have learnt lately they are working hard with a completely new graphics engine (!!) amongst other things.

It was said that a patch was to be released before Christmas focusing on graphics, but due to events (unknown for us all), it has been delayed. Luthier have been kind enough though to answer questions from the community, which can be read below. Of course his answers were ... hrm discussed... so much that he had to make some new comments.

As some of you know upcoming sim "World of Planes" have a facebook page *GASP*. Fortunately enough one does not need an account to view it. It is still in Alpha phase, soon moving into Beta phase. Today's update are some new screenshots:

Fulls screens here. Our World of Planes thread here. Oh.. and Merry Xmas :D