elite
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Hey, Elite: Dangerous Is Actually Out Today
29After months of early-access alphas and betas and gammas(?), Elite: Dangerous is officially out today. I’ve been playing various incarnations of Frontier’s space-sim off and on for a while now, and really dig it. I started back in August, when I went deep into my VR immersion tank and played a bunch of the game…
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Elite Dumps Offline Mode, Starts Issuing Refunds To Disgruntled Players
Over the course of its development, Frontier’s Elite: Dangerous has had mostly positive press and for some it’s served as a tighter and focused foil to the larger, more ambitious Star Citizen. Recently though, the David Braben-led space sim has endured a staggering level of backlash from its impassioned fans, after it was announced that…
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Elite: Dangerous Is About To Get A Whole Lot Bigger
And when I say that, I mean “500 new star systems” bigger. You might remember Elite from our very own Kirk “No, Not That Captain Kirk” Hamilton’s two-week-long space odyssey, wherein he did a bunch of things both crazy and mundane. That’s kinda the point though: Elite is a space sim, short for simulator. It’s…
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I Just Spent Two Weeks Being A Space Commander
“Don’t be That VR Guy,” I keep thinking. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing Elite: Dangerous, a PC space-sim that works with the newest Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. It’s been pretty amazing, and I’m having a hard time not being That VR Guy.