Launched in 2014, Elite Dangerous is an elaborate simulation played primarily in first-person, either from the bridge of your own personal starship or on foot. Players can fight, trade, and explore.

Community-led exploration tool Elite Dangerous Star Map estimates that it would take the playerbase 44,000 years to fully explore Frontiers 1:1 representation of the Milky Way galaxy.

The developers of Elite Dangerous invited us down to the Science Museum in London for one of their ' Lates events ' to attend a special live, guided tour of our solar system within the game ...

In Elite Dangerous is a space simulation game where you take a ship and 100 credits to make money legally or illegally - trade, bounty-hunt, pirate, assassinate your way across the galaxy.

The Elite Dangerous Ascendancy update is out today, Thursday October 31. If you want to try the space game for the very first time, you can get it on Steam right here.