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The LostWinds franchise may be revisited in the future once Frontier Developments gets Elite: Dangerous and Coaster Crazy Deluxe out the door.

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Frontier Developments had a Zoo Tycoon title in the works for Xbox 360 called Microsoft Zoo before it was cancelled by the publisher.

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Kinectimals Unleashed could be heading to iOS and Windows Phone this month, according to the LinkedIn profile of a Fronter Developments concept artist.

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Frontier Developments has announced Coaster Crazy Deluxe for Wii U, which is being developed in parallel across its UK and Canadian studios with Elite: Dangerous.

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Elite: Dangerous will live up to its precursor’s reputation for truly huge game worlds, David Braben has promised.

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Elite: Dangerous has met another stretch goal, which will see a Mac release of the Frontier Developments title three months after the PC version is released.

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Elite: Dangerous has received a new trailer, courtesy of developer Frontier Developments. The studio has also added a PayPal funding option to the game’s site, which will run alongside the game’s Kickstarter campaign. At the time of writing the Elite: Dangerous Kickstarter has reached £820,035 of its £1,250,000 goal with 15 days to spare. Check out the trailer below and judge for yourself if it’s worth investing in.

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Elite: Dangerous is doing big guns on Kickstarter at the time of writing, with £584,968
raised towards Frontier’s £1,250,000 goal. One of the top funding tiers costs £4,500 and lets backers write part of the game’s fiction. Enthusiastic writer Drew Wagar has started his own Kickstarter to raise the money. Get the facts below.

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Two ships twist and turn through an asteroid belt in the latest gameplay footage of David Braben’s Elite: Dangerous.

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The Kickstarter page for Elite: Dangerous has been updated with a new video in which David Braben explains how procedural generation will be used in the game.

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Legendary designer David Braben has turned to Kickstarter to fund a new entry in the Elite series.

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Frontier Developments has announced it’s opening a new development studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The firm said the region has been on its “radar as an attractive geographic and commercial environment,” in which it can create titles as be surrounded by the pool of local universities graduates and various indie developers. “We are excited about opening an office in Halifax, our first outside of the UK,” said COO and president David Walsh. “The studio will be up and running during August, collaborating with our teams in the UK. We are looking forward to working together with our new colleagues, integrating quickly into the Halifax area and making a positive contribution to the Nova Scotia business community.”

Develop organisers have announced the first big speaker of this year’s show is none other than Frontier boss David Braben. Braben’s talk, as part of Brighton Visionaries in a session called “Raspberry Pi – the story so far”, describing the success to date of the mini coding-based USB stick.

Develop takes place between July 10-12 in Brighton.

The LinkedIn profile of a senior producer at Microsoft has revealed the magnitude of the Kinect Star Wars development – revealing the game was worked on by ten teams comprising of over 200 people.

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Kinectimals and Elite creator David Braben has once again spoken out strongly against the second-hand games market.

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Dabid Braben has said Disneyland Adventures is a triple A game that “we can be proud of as an industry”.

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Frontier boss David Braben has been confirmed as a keynote for this year’s Develop. Braben’s keynote, which will happen on the second day of the Brighton-based event, is called “Making Disneyland,” which will touch upon the development of the studio’s latest project Kinect Disneyland Adventures. The game was announced during Microsoft’s E3 briefing.

Develop takes place between July 19-21.

Microsoft’s released a demo for Frontier’s Kinectimals on Xbox Live Marketplace. The taster for the Kinect title comes in at a hefty 1.52Gb. Play around with all the cats or whatever and queue it up here. May as well. Got nothing else to lose anyway.

Frontier boss David Braben has said at a GDC panel that plans for an Elite IV are still in the pipeline.

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Influential game designer David Braben has spoken out against the hacking of the PlayStation 3 and release of custom firmware, describing the freedom of speech argument as “rubbish”.

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