It received critical acclaim, scoring 81% on Metacritic. In 2008, Frontier released LostWinds, a launch title for Nintendo's WiiWare platform. The company also made games for the Wallace and Gromit franchise, and has released Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo, and a tie-in game for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

The full game was released to PC on 16 December 2014.įrontier Developments has made many other games, including Dog's Life, Thrillville, and RollerCoaster Tycoon 3. Early-access versions of the game have been playable by backers since December 2013. The company completed a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of 2012, where the new sequel's name Elite: Dangerous was revealed. įrontier had been planning a new Elite sequel, under the working title Elite 4, since 1998. In 2014, Braben told Eurogamer that The Outsider was probably 'gone for good'. The Outsider was dropped in January 2011 by publisher Codemasters, leading to nearly 30 staff layoffs, and development stopped. The company describes the original Elite as a 'Game by Frontier', in its back catalogue during the company's 2013 sale of shares to the public, with David Braben owning all rights to the game assigned to the company in 2008.īetween 20, Frontier developed The Outsider, an action-adventure game set in Washington DC that Braben said would advance video game storytelling.

2.2 Games published under the Frontier Foundry labelįrontier Developments' first game was the 1993 Amiga CD32 port of the largely successful Frontier: Elite II followed by Frontier: First Encounters, second sequel to the seminal 1984 game Elite by Acornsoft.

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