Elite: Dangerous

Frontier has announced that Elite: Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One will be headed out the gate on February 27th. Players will be able to pilot the new Chieftain ship, as well as "dabble with the Tech Broker and Material Trader and discover all-new improvements to Trade Date, Crime & Punishment and Megaship interactions".

Since the announcement earlier this week of the next season of Elite: Dangerous, the Frontier team took to the airwaves in a pair of live stream events to introduce players to Beyond: Chapter One. The team took it one step further and provided both a video replay of the events as well as a written recap for each on Steam.

If you're a PC or Mac player of Elite: Dangerous, you will definitely want pencil in time to play starting January 25th. Beyond: Chapter One will enter open beta and will allow you to take part in Wing Missions, check out the new graphics upgrades and the Galnet Audio as well as see new trade data. This is the first of season three's updates.

Back at the beginning of 2017, the first evidence of an alien race was discovered as an unsuspecting commander was dragged out of Witch Space by the aliens. The Thargoids have since evolved from an won't series of distractions into the central narrative force in Elite Dangerous.

Players in Elite Dangerous are facing an almighty alien threat right now. While the rest of us bask in the relative safety of Earth, the combined commanders of the Alliance and Federation are sizing up an impending Thargoid threat. The launch of the Horizon's update brought a whole host of new content to Frontiers headline title, and there's even more to come in 2018.