Lighthouse Interactive today announced that Ship Simulator 2008, the latest installement in the ship sim series, is now available in North America. The game features a new multiplayer mode (LAN and online), a highly customizable mission editor, 16 new ships and three new environments (San Francisco, Marseille and Southampton/ Cowes/ Solent). A bilingual French/English version will be released in Canada for the Francophone players. The playable demo of the game can be found here.