A superior remake of the original space trading game Elite will be released for free this weekend, 30 years after the original game launched. The release of Elite: The New Kind has the blessing of Ian Bell, original designer and programmer on Elite with Frontier’s David Braben. Elite, one of the first and best space exploration games, was released in 1984. For a generation, games like X-Wing versus Tie-Fighter, Starcraft and the Mark Hamill vehicle Wing Commander carried fans along happily. Elite Dangerous uses publicly available real world star maps that we have of the Milky Way consisting of 150,000 star systems. Although in the current beta, full access to the entire galaxy is limited, in the final game, you will be able to visit any of the 400 billion stars in our galaxy on a 1:1 scale.