News Tagged: elite

It appears that Frontier Developments' project Elite: Dangerous has garnered over £1,310,000 in funding, getting closer to its £1,500,000 stretch goal (the original goal was £1,250,000). Way to go, Frontier! Now, shut up and work, work, work! Oh yes, and apparently if they reach £1.5 mill, that means 10 more ships are going to be added the game (hm, ten more ships are worth £250k? Amazing. How the fuck does that economy work then?) Source.

Frontier Developments releases a teaser for the Elite remake, Elite: Dangerous. Have a look: For more info about the game, check out our previous updates.

David Braben, one of the co-creators of the space sim classic Elite, has commenced a Kickstarter campaign in order to resurrect the once popular series. The Kickstarter campaign for Elite: Dangerous is set for a minimum of £1.25 million ($2 million approx...

Wow, I think the idea of Notch working on an Elite-style space sim is pretty awesome. I only hope he doesn't get any funny ideas about players building their own pixel-shaped planets and then fighting armies of pixelized space-sheeps. That would suck big-time. What I really want is a game like Mass Effect, but with more tactics, more trading, more micro-managing. Well, something a bit like the X series. Wait a second, that game already exists. See ya later...

Markus 'Notch' Persson is reportedly working on a "sandbox space trading sim" that's being described as a title similar to Elite, the open-ended space sim classic from 1984 (thanks Joystiq). There's only one difference, though. Instead of just maneuvering and flying a spaceship across the far regions of the galaxy...