Category: Elite: Dangerous News
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Elite: Dangerous – Tencent Snaps Up 9% of Frontier Developments
GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that Chinese gaming giant, Tencent, has acquired a 9% stake of Frontier Developments. The deal is worth approximately $23M and is being used to “augment existing cash reserves”. According to Frontier, the funds will be in…
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Elite: Dangerous – PS4 Launch Day Lets Players Blast Off Into Space
PlayStation 4 players can now blast off into space in Elite Dangerous thanks to today’s release.
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Elite: Dangerous – Heading to PlayStation 4 in June
Frontier Developments has announced that Elite: Dangerous will be released for PlayStation 4 on Jun 27th. It will be available in both a physical retail edition or for digital download.
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Elite: Dangerous – Rewriting a Novel’s End – Alternative Plays Out in Game
Novelist Drew Wagar was all set to reveal his next Elite Dangerous novel’s ending in game. One of the book’s important characters, Salom�, was to be escorted across the galaxy to deliver crucial information about a megaship called the Zurara. Two player groups, The Children of Raxxla and the Premonition Allied Coalition, were charged with protecting her along her journey.
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Elite: Dangerous – Update 2.3 ‘The Commanders’ BGS Rolled Back to Address Bugs
After Frontier released The Commanders v2.3 Elite Dangerous update earlier this week, players encountered some significant bugs including player faction percentage drops. This is a critical issue to gain influence or even control over a system. As a re…
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Elite: Dangerous – The Commanders Update 2.3 to Hit Live Servers by April 16th
The Elite: Dangerous Facebook page has been updated with a brief note to let players know that The Commanders update (v2.3) will be ready for deployment by “the weekend ending April 16th”. Players can use “Holo-Me” to create their avatars and give them…
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Elite: Dangerous – Literally Becoming the Commander Added to PTR
Elite: Dangerous players have been Commanders for quite awhile, but now they can get a literal look at themselves on the PTR with the arrival of Commanders 2.3. Players will be able to utilize a new creator interface to give their Commander just the ri…
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Elite: Dangerous – Stand-Alone ED: Arena Pulled from Sale
Frontier has announced that the stand-alone version of Elite Dangerous: Arena has been pulled from the Frontier Store, Steam and the XBox Store. The decision was made after looking at metrics and discovering that most players play directly from the Eli…
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Elite: Dangerous – SpiderMind Games’ Tabletop RPG KickStarter Begins
SpiderMind Games has started its KickStarter project to bring a robust tabletop RPG based on Elite: Dangerous to the world. KickStarter funds will be used to fund production and publication of a core manual and four supplements to get players started o…
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Elite: Dangerous – Carrie Fisher to be Memorialized in Next Update
Executive Producer Michael Brookes has taken to the Elite: Dangerous forum to let players know that the late Carrie Fisher, best known for her portrayal of Leia Organa in the Star Wars movies, will be memorialized in the next update. A new outpost call…