Elite: Dangerous

A new and exciting online space game is coming soon to a PC near you -- Elite: Dangerous (ED). It's a space simulator for PC, containing millions of procedural generated star systems to explore. Take a ship and 100 credits, and set out into the unknown. Make your own destiny!

2014 is going to be such a great year for the space simulator genre. Both Star Citizen and Limit Theory are already funded and will be made. Now Elite: Dangerous needs your support to be made.  

In ED you can choose what you want to do and who you're going to be. You can be a merchant or trader, a mercenary or bounty hunter, an explorer who discovers new star systems, or perhaps you want to be a pirate? Through Internet you connect to this huge online universe with thousands of other players you can work with or fight against. And why not bring a friend or two with you? Friends can team up and create their own teams, or join an already established team.

Just 9 days before the funding campaign ends on Kickstarter, ED has collected £956,542 of its goal of £1,250,000. ED will go in alpha in about a year from now, and beta a couple of months later.  Then, in March 2014 it is scheduled for release!  If ED sounds like a game you want to play, pledge a few pounds on Kickstarter today! I recommend the £90 tier, which is really good value!

Take a few moments now to look at a couple of stunning ED videos. What you see here is from the real game.

There's a lot more information to read and videos to watch on Kickstarter.

This is a big opportunity for everyone who loves space simulators. ED is already a working model today.  It looks really great from what we've seen so far.  Frontier has worked a long time with this and now asks for a little help to finish what they've started.  It's only a few days left now on Kickstarter.  Hurry before January 4th!


Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
Main website: http://elite.frontier.co.uk/

Star Citizen

Something wonderful has happened -- Chris Roberts, the man behind Wing Commander, is creating a new game: Star Citizen!  For those of us who love space simulators, this is what we've waited for a long, long time.  We thought the genre was dead.  There have not been a good space simulator game in years and years on the PC.  So this is very exciting!

There will be a single player game, called Star Citizen -- Squadron 42, and also an online part where you can fly freely around in a persistent universe.

You may be a soldier in the squadron 42; an explorer who travels to unknown star systems; you can mine minerals and sell them as raw material, or you can produce goods from them; you may want to be a mercenary or bounty hunter; or perhaps you want to be a pirat?  There are many roles and occupations!

Take a look at the trailer video below.  The graphic details are unbeleivable! And so will the game be.

There are many more videos of Star Citizen on Youtube, like for instance this extended trailer:

... and the gameplay, explained by Chris Roberts himself:

You will notice that the game is not just on the drawing board, it has already developed into an internal pre-alpha testing model.  The first official alpha version will be released to backers of the project (yes, you can!) in about 12 months -- November 2013.  Then probably more alphas, and beta(s).  The final game is scehduled to be released about one year after the first alpha, in November 2014.  So two years to wait ... but, as I said, backers can play it before that!

So what is a backer?  Well, it's you and me funding the project.  If you pledge for a small amount of money ($35 or more), you get a free copy of the game when it's finished, your own ship, access to alphas and betas, some credits to use in the game, and much more!  There are many pledge levels.  Go to the webiste and look at the packages and included ships, and decide what you will contribute with to the project.  If you want, you can also do this on Kickstarter.  All pledgers receive their Star Citizenship card in the snail mail in about a month.

NOTE: The funding process on Internet will finish on November 19, so you much pledge before that date if you want a personal ship reserved for you and all the other goodies I mentioned above!

Oh, and did I mention that pledgers will have lifetime insurance on their ship(s)?  That's right.  Plus you get a free repair bot in your garage, and more!

Chris Roberts and his team can explain this game and universe much better than me, so go to the website and look for yourself!

Main website: https://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/star-citizen/?rid=47093
Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen

EDIT: Fixed a link. (2012.11.03, 07:14am Zulu)