Flight Simulator X: Acceleration adds a respectable amount of content to the original Flight Simulator X, especially for the $30 price tag. Although you only receive three new aircrafts, they offer significantly different flight experiences and challenges that are exemplified by the new, well-designed and interesting single-player missions. The new multiplayer racing capability alone could justify the purchase of this expansion pack. Anyone who owns Flight Simulator X would be hard-pressed to not add this exceptional expansion to his or her library.
Thrustmaster's H.O.T.A.S. Warthog Flight Controller package wins an Innovation Award at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, and delivers a faithful replica of the controls for the Fairchild Republic A10 Warthog to flight sim gamers.
The once popular mods website AVSIM has been hacked and destroyed. With no external back ups, AVSIM may never return to its glory.
This is really sad news to hear. Its been a little while sense iv played a flight sim, but I still dont like seeing a good site go down.
Welcome to the Internet. It is very unfortunate though, certainly will miss the site if they close indefinitely.
Come on, this is the internet, if you have a site that even close to popular you have to have multiple external backups, even if it cost you a fortune, it's the most important security measure you could possibly do.
If you have no backups, you are either extremly stupid (and therefore deserve the lesson of losing all your data) or you want to go out of business, but are not brave enough to admit it.
I haven't been to AVSIM in a while, not since I was heavily into FS2004 but this news is sad to hear.
So many mods created by a great community down the drain :(
Despite reports of its demise it seems that Flight Simulator will live on. Microsoft yesterday laid off the ACES development team responsible for one of the company's flagship franchises. However Microsoft has confirmed to Boomtown that it will continue to invest in flying games for the PC platform.
Microsoft doesn't wanna pay any good developers in house anymore. Wish those guys the best of luck.
The entire studio wasn't layed off, it was only a good chunk, a few people are still around. Over 10 thousand people lost their jobs in the past few weeks at Microsoft, I doubt these guys were laid off solely due to the fact that they were a inhouse developer.
NOO! Flight simming has been a real hobby and passion of mine. There is no better feeling than when you reel in a PMDG 747 for a night landing in dense fog...
Anyways, I am really disappointed by this news. And I mean REALLY disappointed.
Oh, and I realize that this probably isn't a complete end to the series, but it just won't be the same.
Hmm.. interesting.
IMO the microsoft simulator is not going to be cut since they are making a boat load of money off of it.
I am in the Air Traffic Control program and my school is now replacing its old flight simulators with that of microsoft FSX, i hear other schools are doing it too.
This is a lot less expensive for schools since some of these flight simulators run for more than $100k+
In addition, microsoft flight simulator "engine" is widely recognized as being one of the most accurate, real life simulations.
Edit: I also heard somewhere that microsoft wanted to incorporate google earth for its next release, i dont know if it phased out tho.
Why don't they make a flight simulator for the 360? They can use the Ace Combat engine and voice recognition to get around the limited controls.
