Category: Elite: Dangerous News

Frontier Developments has announced that it will be bringing Elite: Dangerous to the XBox One console sometime during calendar year 2015. The XBox One version will include all PC content through next week’s Wings update.

The Elite: Dangerous forum has been updated with a new developer post that lays out some of the upcoming features players can expect from the beta update v1.2. According to the post, the update should arrive in March. Of particular note, the update will feature a debug camera that will allow players to take epic screenshots of their ships from the outside, though the caveat is mentioned that it is not a game play camera.

The first major update has been applied to Elite: Dangerous. Center among the new things delivered in the patch is the new Community Goals feature. According to information from developers, Community Goals can be accomplished in multiplayer, solo or private groups, all contributing to the success of attaining the goal of expanding known space.

When today’s Elite: Dangerous beta patch goes live, players will see a laundry list of client and game improvements. Most notably, however, the Community Goals feature will activate. Last week, the team posted a developer blog on the game’s forums to explain what Community Goals are.

Conventions are all about trying new things, and I did just that at PAX South, sampling for the first time two of the hottest new pieces of tech – software and hardware – that gamers are drooling over: Elite: Dangerous and the Oculus Rift.

The Game Developer’s Choice Awards have been announced, and Dave Braben, CEO of Frontier Developments and Elite: Dangerous, has been named as the recipient of the Pioneer Award for his groundbreaking technology and game design milestones.

Frontier Developments has sent a letter to investors indicating that fifteen "creation" jobs at the company’s Cambridge studio have been made redundant and that all Halifax development jobs are being moved to Cambridge. What the implications are for the Halifax studio remain unclear.

Elite: Dangerous is a direct call to my childhood and to an arguably more ambitious time of gaming. Open ended, vast, and procedurally generated. The march of technology since the first Elite has only served to let Frontier Developments create the sort of game that they, and I, spent years imagining.

It’s a big galaxy. 400 billion stars big. There’s room enough to make your fortunes, room enough to find your fights and room enough to see things most people won’t pass by if you really work at it. In a galaxy like that, what you make of it is up to you. You… and others. It might be the little action of a few players bringing in the goods or it might be the larger actions of empires.

New Year’s day was a rough one for Elite: Dangerous when a server malfunction caused a slew of headache-inducing bugs. Fortunately, developer Frontier has fixed these issues.