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== Oolite Version 1.77 released ==
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Oolite v1.77-test released on Tuesday 8th January 2013. Download from [http://www.oolite.org Oolite.org].
  
 
==Elite:Dangerous hit its funding target==
 
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[[User:Jack Hamtilon|Jack Hamtilon]]  
 
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==Elite:Dangerous (A.K.A Elite IV) on Kickstarter==
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Here it is:
 
 
 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
 
 
 
Its been going for a week and a bit now and is nearly half way to its goal.  37 days and under 700,000 pounds to go.  Lets rally around the 'Creator' and get him over the line!
 
 
 
 
 
== Oolite Version 1.76 released ==
 
 
 
Oolite v1.76 stable released on Friday 16th December 2011. Download from [http://www.oolite.org Oolite.org].
 
 
 
[[User:Jaz|JazHaz]] 23:23, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Oolite Test Version 1.74 released ==
 
 
 
The latest test version was released on Sunday 13th June 2010. Download from [http://www.oolite.org Oolite.org].
 
 
 
[[User:JazHaz|JazHaz]] 15:52, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Elite Wiki back up ==
 
 
 
The Elite Wiki came back up today after nearly two weeks offline, due to the server breaking. Now on a replacement server, hopefully we should have no more problems.
 
 
 
[[User:JazHaz|JazHaz]] (on behalf of [[User:Winston|Winston]]) 13:35, 22 April 2010 (BST)
 
 
 
== B.U.F.F.E.T. version 2 released ==
 
 
 
A new version of B.U.F.F.E.T. (Big Universal Frontier First Encounters Trainer) has been released by whertz. It boasts numerous new features, including a ship manipulator, ship replacement editor and much more.
 
 
 
Download the new version from [http://www.spacesimcentral.com/downloads.php?view=detail&df_id=268 here]
 
 
 
[[User:Steve|Steve]] 14:58, 03 April 2010 (BST)
 
 
 
== Robert Holdstock 1948-2009 ==
 
 
 
The sad news has emerged that Robert Holdstock - author of the Elite novella The Dark Wheel - has died in hospital at the age of 61.
 
 
 
Full story [http://robertholdstock.com/ here]
 
 
 
[[User:Steve|Steve]] 22:15, 29 November 2009 (GMT)
 
 
 
== Oolite test v1.73.4 released ==
 
 
 
Oolite version 1.73.4 is now available for Mac, Windows and Linux  systems. This is a bug-fix update to v1.73-1.73.3. Download from [http://www.oolite.org oolite.org].
 
 
 
[[User:Ahruman|Ahruman]] 20:35, 24 September 2009
 
 
 
== Elite - 25th Anniversary ==
 
 
 
It's now a quarter of a century since David Braben and Ian Bell changed the face of computer gaming with the release of Elite on the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron.
 
 
 
Frontier Developments have launched a [http://elite.frontier.co.uk/ 25th Anniversary Website] to celebrate.
 
 
 
[[User:Steve|Steve]] 16:25, 21 September 2009 (BST)
 
 
 
 
 
== Older news ==
 
  
You can see older news by viewing the archive pages - see [[:Category:News]]
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'''Present archives:'''
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* [[Wikinews Archive 1]]
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* [[Wikinews Archive 2]]
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* [[Wikinews Archive 3]]
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* [[Wikinews Archive 4]]
  
 
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Revision as of 21:09, 24 January 2016

Want to submit news? Please see the News Submission Guidelines on how to do this.

Oolite Version 1.77 released

Oolite v1.77-test released on Tuesday 8th January 2013. Download from Oolite.org.

Elite:Dangerous hit its funding target

The Kickstarter for Elite: Dangerous hit its funding target of £1.25 million today, 52 hours ahead of the deadline. This means that the game WILL be made, with release estimated for March 2014.

Elite:Dangerous Novels

There are currently four crowd source funding projects to create official/canon Elite novels to be released with the game in March 2014.

The links are:

John Harper: http://www.indiegogo.com/EliteDangerous-And-here-the-wheel?show_todos=true&a=1801378

Drew Wagar: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1245019716/reclamation-an-elite-novella-by-a-fan-for-the-fans?ref=live

'Commander Boz': http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336512366/the-cost-of-exploration-an-elite-dangerous-world-b?ref=live

Vasileios Kalampakas: http://www.indiegogo.com/elite-dangerous-novel?a=1801378

Stop by, check them out and please (if you can) help us get some real stories into the Elite universe.

Jack Hamtilon

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