Exclusive: Frontier’s The Outsider Cancelled?
Rock, Paper, Shotgun has received word that David “Elite” Braben’s much vaunted next game, The Outsider, was apparently cancelled yesterday. Edit: David Braben has confirmed to us that development on...
View ArticleDavid Braben Making A USB PC For £15?
David Braben, he of Elite fame, has unveiled a PC that fits on a USB stick, the Raspberry PI. He has also unveiled a brand new way of pronouncing “obfuscated”. The device has an HDMI in at one end,...
View ArticleElite Returns With Massive Kickstarter Goal
Old-school RPGs? Please. That Kickstarter trend is so a few seconds ago. Now it’s all about mind-bogglingly ambitious revivals of legendary space series that need your help in the form of several...
View ArticleElite 4 Comes Dangerously Close To Showing Something
There are the good Kickstarters – the ones with prototypes, extensive mechanic breakdowns or videos of an eerily earless Jim Rossignol* demonstrating in-game footage at length – and then there are the...
View ArticleLook! It’s A Real Bigfoot! No, Wait, Elite IV Footage
Continuing in a very unfortunate trend of talking a lot and showing suspiciously little, David Braben and co have finally seen fit to take the wraps off a teensy tiny meteorite bite of Elite:...
View ArticleVapour Trail Ware – Generous Elite: Dangerous Footage
Elite: Dangerous generated a fair bit of ill will when its Kickstarter first launched, so short on detail or assets was its initial appeal for alms. With Peter Molyneux’s similarly vague Project GODUS...
View ArticleElite: Dangerous Is Winning The Space Race For My Heart
I wasn’t convinced by the initial Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter pitch. It was nebulous, and built on the notion that people played a game years and years ago and quite liked it. It felt like my...
View ArticleAlpha Papa Chat: Elite: Dangerous Alpha In December
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...
View ArticleInto The Vasty Deep: Elite Dangerous
I spent most of the weekend playing the magnificent Distant Worlds: Universe (many words on that tomorrow) and it’s left me feeling like a claustrophobic sardine – craving more space. Thankfully,...
View ArticleBraben On Elite, Oc Rift, Dodgy Gravity & Doing Space Right
At last week’s Develop conference in Brighton, I grabbed a half hour with Frontier Developments boss David Braben to talk about what’s going on with Elite Dangerous (fresh from my own wide-eyed...
View ArticleBraben On Star Citizen, Elite 2 Bugs & Rude Planet Names
A short while ago I ran the first part of my recent interview with Elite co-creator David Braben about space, VR and other Dangerous-related topics; here’s part two, in which I mutter questions from...
View ArticleInterview: David Braben On Fan Anger And Expectations
Elite: Dangerous [official site] is that rare thing: a Kickstarter-funded game that came out when its developers said that it would. Less rare is the response it inspired when it turned out that the...
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