Elite Dangerous

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Elite Dangerous
Developer(s)Frontier Developments
Publisher(s)Frontier Developments
Director(s)David Braben
Producer(s)Michael Brookes[5]
Designer(s)
  • Sandro Sammarco
  • Dan Davies
  • Tom Kewell[5][6]
Programmer(s)
  • Mark Allen
  • Igor Terentjev[5]
Artist(s)
  • John Laws
  • Simon Brewer
  • John Roberts[5]
Composer(s)Erasmus Talbot[7]
SeriesElite
EngineCobra
Platform(s)
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
    16 December 2014[1]
  • macOS
    12 May 2015[2]
  • Xbox One
    6 October 2015[3]
  • PlayStation 4
    27 June 2017[4]
Genre(s)Space trading and combat, first-person shooter, Immersive sim, MMO
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Elite Dangerous[a] is an online space flight simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments. The player commands a spaceship and explores a realistic 1:1 scale, open-world representation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the gameplay being open-ended. The game is the first in the series to attempt massively multiplayer gameplay, with players' actions affecting the narrative story of the game's persistent universe, while also retaining a single-player mode. Elite Dangerous is the fourth game in the Elite video game series. It is the sequel to Frontier: First Encounters,[9] released in 1995, becoming the top selling game for Christmas of that Year.

By November 2012, Frontier began a Kickstarter campaign for ED due to the inability to secure a publisher. The game was released by Frontier for Windows in December 2014,[1] with the macOS version later released in May 2015. The Xbox One version was fully released in October 2015.[10] The PlayStation 4 version launched on 27 June 2017. ED has additionally supported most Virtual reality headsets on PC.[11]

Downloadable content for the game, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, was released on 18 May 2021. The DLC allows players to land on planets and move around in first person, as well as engaging in first-person shooter gameplay.[12] By September 2022, sales of the base game passed 4.8 million units.[12]

  1. ^ a b "Elite: Dangerous release date set for next month". PC Gamer. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Elite: Dangerous now available for Macs, both direct and on Steam". Ars Technica. 12 May 2015.
  3. ^ Martin, Michael (8 September 2015). "Elite Dangerous Xbox One Release Date Revealed". IGN. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  4. ^ Groizard, Matthew (16 May 2017). "Elite Dangerous Touches Down on PS4 June 27". PlayStation.Blog. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "Elite Dangerous Team". Frontier Developments. 14 June 2013. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  6. ^ Wesley Yin-Poole (23 April 2015). "Powerplay update makes Elite Dangerous a lot more interesting". EuroGamer.net. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Elite Dangerous composer announced". Frontier. Archived from the original on 1 May 2015.
  8. ^ Alec Meer (16 December 2015). "Elite Dangerous Planetary Landing Expansion Out Now". Rock Paper Shotgun.
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