The Elite series is legendary. Father to the modern Space Exploration and Combat genre of games, it hailed a new era of involved gameplay with adult themes and expansive universes to explore. Now, almost 30 years after the release of the BBC-B original,Elite: Dangerous promises not only to bring the series back with a bang, but also to allow you to explore it"s universe through the wonders of virtual reality.

Date: June 5, 2014

He defined bedroom coding, and now David Braben is pushing boundaries again with Elite: Dangerous

Frontier has just signed a publishing deal for two new titles, but how key was its Game Of The Week process?

Frontier Developments is busy making Elite: Dangerous right now, but it"s also just announced a new publishing deal for two unnamed titles. The new games will use the studio"s Cobra technology and were both products of a Game Of The Week process, which allows members of staff to pitch their ideas.

When you hear all the enthusiasm out in the gaming industry for Linux, it"s easy to forget that we"re very much in a battle to prove our viability in so many areas, particularly to mainstream publishers. Do we need them though? Well, initially at least.

The floating space head of David "Orson" Braben is transmitting more details about Elite: Dangerous. This is a particularly important dev diary, because it announces the alpha stage of the game. The backers who pledged to be part of the alpha will be getting the first new taste of Elite in nearly two decades this December.

David Braben is one of the most important game developers of all time. He is the father of absolute masterpieces like Elite and Frontier and he"s finally back with an ambitious 1.5 million crowd fungind campaign on Kickstarter for Elite: Dangerous.

Credits, Cobras and Crowd-Funding: David Braben tells us about Elite: Dangerous

David Braben on Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter. "If it fails, I"ll be terribly upset."