Microsoft Flight Simulator is magical no matter how you play - but it definitely gains a little something special if you use the proper sim hardware. If you'd asked me who all those specialist flight ...

Turtle Beach has announced the VelocityOne flight control system, its first dedicated flight peripheral for Xbox, ideal for the new Microsoft Flight Simulator console launch. The product includes a ...

The four controller options for Microsoft Flight Simulator showcased in a post on the Xbox Wire are the Turtle Beach VelocityOne Flight, the Honeycomb Alpha Flight Controls XPC, the Thrustmaster ...

We’ve known that Microsoft Flight Simulator was coming to Xbox consoles for literally years now. This week at E3 Microsoft finally gave us a launch date — July 27. What remained unclear to fans, ...

The traditional two-analog gamepad is a versatile input tool, but when it comes to something like a flight simulator, nothing beats having a joystick and a throttle. On Xbox One, that is now an option ...

If you’ve played any kind of flight simulator before, you know using a joystick is way more fun than using any other kind of controller. Certainly, more fun than a console controller, which is ...

Thrustmaster sent an early unit to Polygon late last week, and we’ve been putting it through its paces for a couple of days now. The centerpiece is the yoke itself, which works quite differently from ...

Microsoft Flight Simulator scored an Xbox Series X|S release date on Sunday, now targeting a July 27, 2021 release. Microsoft has posted a full (albeit, small) breakdown of supported accessories at ...

Ball and socket linkages make for smooth operation. People making DIY controls to enhance flight simulators is a vibrant niche of engineering and hackery, and it sure looks like Microsoft Flight ...

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