Call of Duty’s online Elite service is just about fully functional, with the first episode of Friday Night Fights set to hit this week and the mobile version releasing as early as next week, Activision says. More »
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Call of Duty Elite beta began a “staged launch” today and to kick it off, Activision unloaded this two minute trailer that spends one minute cracking jokes and another minute answering questions except for the biggie: How much is this damn thing going to cost? More »
Last November, Mircosoft released a new addition to its Xbox 360 console line: the “Super Elite Bundle” More »
I’ve been waiting so long for Elite 4 that the issue of what platform it will actually appear on has become kind of irrelevant.
In my mind’s eye, I just see the same old 8-bit wireframes only… better, somehow. A bit less blocky would do. They don’t even have to have textures or anything, just as long as the gameplay is up to the original I will be happy. Just slap a bit of anti-aliasing on or something and I am there.
Sadly, the odds of Elite 4 being released for the BBC Model B or Commodoure 64 are quite slim, but series co-creator David Braben has popped up to tease us with the idea that Elite 4 will be hitting current-gen consoles.
This sounds great, but surely Elite needs about 500 keys to be playable? Matching the complex controls to a game pad is going to be tricky, clumsy or both.
As to the game itself, Braben is staying tight lipped. “Very, very deep and dark,” is all he could reveal – hopefully referring to the gameplay rather than the remaining project plan.
Elite 4: “We are looking at console,” says Braben [Videogaming 247]
A lot of Americans may be in the dark when it comes to Elite, since it’s more fanatical followers are based mostly out of the UK, but all you really need to know is that it’s one of the greatest games ever made. Actually, I think its sequel – Frontier – is even better, but whatever, that’s open to debate. The point is, the latest Elite game, Elite 4, which has been years in the making, is…still being made, according to series creator David Braben. Which is good to know, since it’s been over nine months since we heard anything on the project. Latest is that it’ll be out after his current game, The Outsider, which is slated for release sometime next year. Putting Elite 4′s release at somewhere around 2010. At the earliest. Which, when you write it down like that, is an awfully long time away.
