Elite: Dangerous will not have an offline mode, even in singleplayer. Plans for any servers outages are in place, with local archival of the current game state.
The Grandaddy of all space sims has a spring in his step, a twinkle in his eye and fistful of missiles as the alpha test of Elite: Dangerous' combat engine gets underway.
Somewhere in Cambridge, UK, re-imagined Cobra Mk. IIIs and Sidewinders are spooling up their hyperdrives and charging their pulse lasers for the first time in decades.
The kickstarted return of the 3D space sim that launched a genre will be embracing the virtual reality tech that is literally turning heads across the industry.
A rousing soundtrack, first-person cockpits, capital ship combat. As it begins to show its teeth, is the crowd-funded Elite reboot starting to get Dangerous?
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Elite: Dangerous is on its way to fulfil the dreams of many an ageing sci-fi games enthusiast and they'll be pleased to know the classic Coriolis space...
With only two weeks to go until the end of the Kickstarter fund-raising period, Elite: Dangerous developers release more information in a bid to bring back the classic.