Console Monster writes: "Flight sticks for consoles are a rarity. Like the games that require them, there is just not that many on the market, and choice is really slim to none. Today I'll be checking out one of the few on the market, the Saitek Aviator.
Now Saitek is not alien to making flight sticks, they have been doing so for many years now, though mostly for PC, which makes sense seeing as that is where the entire simulation heritage resides. But with consoles now having power to produce complex and graphically rich simulations, Saitek has released the Aviator to fit in with today's flight simulations for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. Also, should you also have a PC, the Aviator works with that too – bonus!..."
"The Montréal-based (Québec, Canada) indie games developer Raccoon Logic have today announced with great joy and thrill, that their satirical sci-fi adventure "Revenge of the Savage Planet", is coming to PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5 and Xbox Series X) on May 8th (2025)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The Kosice-based (Slovakia) indie games publisher Grindstone and Bratislava-based (Slovakia) indie games developer Bitmap Galaxy,, are today very delighted and proud to announce that the full version (v1.0) of their cozy puzzle nature-building game “Preserve“, is coming to PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch via digital stores on May 15th, 2025." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Meta revealed that an Xbox VR headset was on the way back in 2024, so where is it? And what form can we expect it to take?
Yea, the problem is that the games worth playing in VR in Microsoft's catalog do not run on Meta OS. Hands down one of the best VR experiences I've had was MS Flight Simulator, and you need a beast of a system to run it well! The one thing that could push Meta headsets is an "official" release of Minecraft VR. You had to do some workarounds before to get it running in VR (which is an amazing experience, I don't actually play the game flat), but they just removed all VR support for the game after an update at the end of March. Bring it back with an official, easy to use Meta Quest version. I wouldn't buy an XBox branded Quest, but I'd at least like to see them do a bigger push into VR. Doubt they'd do it bc it's still so niche, and they're struggling atm and trimming the fat as it is. (But omg, would I kill for an official Forza Horizon in VR w wheel support!!)
I'm not sure that a Metaquest with an Xbox logo slapped on it constitutes it being an "Xbox" headset. But whatever.
Hololens is a damn cool kit... problem is price. So if there was a cheaper 2.0, I'd be down for that. I know you are trying to make a dig, that just shows you never experienced it.
