Back To Page 2 General Assembly The Gaming Cockpit can be assembled very quickly, but you will miss one of its best features if you take that approach. There is a near infinite number of configurations in the way it can be setup, and you need to spend time thinking through what will work […]
Back To Page 1 Packaging When the boxes arrived, I honestly couldn’t believe all the components could fit inside the boxes. As I opened the largest one first, I realized there was a lot of work that went into the placement and protection of the contents. Everything was heavily wrapped in bubble-wrap. There were […]
by Doug “guod” Atkinson Introduction Sooner or later it’s bound to happen. Instead of spending the evening with your favorite sim after the day’s work is done, the commute home, you’ve assisted with the kids homework, discussed the day with your SO, you finally opt to just surf the web, maybe watch some television and fall […]
by Joe Keefe Although I am a big fan of peripherals that are often found on a simmer’s computer desk (i.e. HOTAS, TrackIR, programmable input devices, etc.), I have never used anything but a standard keyboard for all of my computing life. In the past few years products like Logitech’s G15 andSaitek’s Eclipse series of keyboards have permeated the […]
Back To Page 2 Conclusion At it’s core, the G700 is a solid wireless mouse that offers gamers serious flexibility in it’s additional buttons, and useful programming software. The G700 boasts the latest technical specs, clean and comfortable design, and some very nice features such as the user replaceable standard battery and combined […]
Back To Page 1 Gaming – Profile Setup While preparing this review, I played handful of different games and genres in multiplayer and single player. RTS titles includedCompany of Heroes: Tales of Valor, Sins of a Solar Empire, and the classic Commandos 2. FPS titles included UT2004 and UT3. And of course, my primary gaming here at SimHQ, ArmA […]
by “adlabs6” Introduction The new G700 is the latest offering to Logitech’s G-series line of gaming peripherals that are intended for gamers who require a multitude of buttons, in depth programming options, and high performance technical specifications not usually found in a wireless mouse. It is optimized for MMO gaming use. Let’s look at the G700 and […]
by Guest Writer Dalibor Jovanovic Introduction Aviation exhibitions are funny places. One never knows what hidden treasure lies buried in one of those vast exhibition halls. The exhibition was Aero 2010 in Friedrichshafen.Friedrichshafen is a small town on the shores of Lake Constance, peculiar, yet wonderful place, with three countries mixing their borders in different combinations […]
by Frank “Dart” Giger I must confess that I’m something of an Operating Systems (OS) switcher, following the trends of Microsoft in an effort to ensure I support one of the few companies that have decided to expend effort and investment capital in bringing us operating systems. “In such a niche of software development, we should […]
Hands-on: A Few More Details by Joe Keefe Introduction On the evening of June 15th, after the first day of E3 2010, Thrustmaster hosted an exclusive preview event to unveil the HOTAS Warthog. SimHQ attended and provided a preview article detailing many of the Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog’s features. Now that the dust has settled, here is a […]
by “Chunx” Introduction When hard-core sim racers contemplate opening their wallets wide for a high-end force feedback (FFB) racing wheel, these two fine controllers will no-doubt be placed in direct competition with one another. In recent months SimHQ has penned separate, in-depth reviews on both of these fine products — the Logitech G27 in August of 2009, […]
Back To Page 4 Good Sims, Bad Sims? The party line when discussing force-sensing joysticks is that they are “good for modern fighter sims, bad for WWII sims”. After testing the X-65F in a variety of situations, I don’t agree with that; I think it works just as well in any type of sim. Let’s […]
