Microsoft Acquires Flight Game Maker

Microsoft Corp. is buying the Illinois-based creator of Microsoft Flight Simulator, one of the most successful personal computer games.

Bruce Artwick Organization Ltd. has licensed the game to Microsoft for the past 15 years. More than 3 million copies of Flight Simulator have been sold, Microsoft said Monday.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Most of Artwick’s 30 employees will relocate from Champaign, Ill., to Microsoft’s consumer division in suburban Seattle, said Alecia Bridgwater, Microsoft PC games marketing manager.