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Elite: Dangerous, the long-awaited spaceship sim from Frontier developments, has launched. You can see the video here<\/a> in which game designer and studio head David Braben pushes the symbolic big red button to officially release the game. After the crowd-sourcing<\/a> and lengthy alpha and beta periods, would-be Sidewinder pilots can explore, trade, and fight each other in 400 billion procedurally generated star systems. Become a trader to buy low and sell high. Buy a nicer ship. Supercruise between points of interest and get ambushed by someone with a better ship than yours. Go back to your starter ship and begin again.<\/p>\n

Frontier Developments promises that Elite: Dangerous will have plenty of post-launch support. Work on the online shared galaxy will continue to include a dynamically changing storyline and economy. Elite: Dangerous is available from the developer’s online store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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