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Job cuts ground Flight Simulator

The future of Microsoft's long running Flight Simulator series has been cast into doubt, after the software maker US laid-off the entire development team.

Microsoft says it is "committed" to the series, despite shutting the Aces studio when it cut 5000 jobs.

But third party developers say Microsoft needs to outline its plans for the game in more detail.

MS Flight Simulator is arguably the longest running computer game series ever, first launched back in 1982.

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sinncross5569d ago

Regardless it looks more bleak everyday for MS internal projects.

Maybe they'll get it worked out soon cause they can't rely on third party exclusive forever, especially when Nintendo and Sony get their own third party exclusives, but have a far more extensive first party collection at hand.

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How to recreate a real cockpit with only gaming accessories

There are so many flying accessories made for the MFS X that you can probably find a counterpart for every instrument on a real cockpit.

The authors of this piece does that, showing all the equipment you can buy for MFS X to recreate a real plane cockpit in front of your PC.

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gameaccesory.com
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Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition Skychaser Expansion Now Available

Dovetail Games today announced the availability of Skychaser, the latest expansion for Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition.

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heypoorplayer.com
derkasan3079d ago

The Bay Area challenge looks great.

dead_pixels3079d ago

This might actually be what gets me to check the game out.

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New content pack for Flight Simulator X flies over Australia and New Zealand

First Class Simulations has announced that it will be releasing new downloadable content for Flight Simulator X. The Discover Australia & New Zealand expansion pack will be landing on Steam on 13th November, 2015.

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