Elite: Dangerous Premium Beta Phase Starts

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Frontier Developments PLC

02 June 2014

 



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2 June 2014

Frontier Developments plc

Elite: Dangerous Premium Beta Phase Starts

Frontier Developments plc (AIM:  FDEV), the leading independent game developer with studios in Cambridge, UK and Halifax, Nova Scotia, has achieved the next milestone in the development of its forthcoming Elite: Dangerous title.

The Premium Beta phase started on Friday, 30 May as scheduled, with all the major features that have been added through the four Alpha phases. The immediate focus is on testing the systems and servers with a step change in numbers using a re-balanced game based on feedback and information from the recent Alpha 4 build.

David Braben, CEO of Frontier, said:

"The start of the Premium Beta phase is another exciting moment in our development - from today we have over 10,000 additional people playing the game.  This is a significant and sensible step-change with which to test the next level of scaling of our cloud-based systems and servers as we move towards the very large numbers of people who may eventually be playing Elite:Dangerous.

"I once again would like to thank all those who played such an important role in the Alpha phase, which is now at an end. We're looking forward to continuing to collaborate with the expanded community during the Beta phase as we deliver greater scale, richer content and ever higher quality."

Enquiries:

Frontier Developments	[phone]
David Braben, CEO
David Walsh, COO Neil Armstrong, CFO
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About Frontier Developments plc

Frontier Developments plc, listed on the AIM stock market (ticker: FDEV), is a leading independent game developer founded in 1994 by David Braben, co-author of the seminal 'Elite' game.  Based in Cambridge, UK and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Frontier uses its proprietary 'Cobra' game development technology to create innovative games across videogame consoles, computers, smartphones and tablets.

As of 30 April 2014, Frontier had raised £2.7 million via Kickstarter, the crowd funding website and its own site to develop Elite: Dangerous. The studio is also working on a number of other titles, and released 'Zoo Tycoon' as a launch title for Microsoft's Xbox One console in 2013.

 

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