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Elite: Dangerous with its scientifically accurate 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy looks the most promising to me. http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ

There is already a modern Elite called "Elite: Dangerous" currently in alpha phase. http://elite.frontier.co.uk http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ And Eve i…

There is also a great community FAQ http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ

Strike Commander was technically a very impressive achievement for its time and I'm very sad that flight and race sims don't get the recognition they deserve for pioneering technol…

Contrary to what the article states, what Falcon 3.0 focused on wasn't the flight model, but a relatively realistic and more involved representation of a dynamic battlefield, avion…

You are wrong, the flight-sim, RPG, adventure and space flight games genre together with many other types of first person games were flourishing way before Doom. http://www.youtube…

Also considering the lack of exposure and the amount of flack Elite: Dangerous is getting compared to the other space games it's also the gamers who sadly don't care. Btw here is a…

Frontier: Elite 2 from 1993 and Frontier: First Encounters (Elite 3) from 1995 did it way before I-War was even a thing, complete with full freeform seamless landing on planets wit…

The money raised from fans is only a fraction of their total budget. http://www.directorstalk.com/video-edison-executive-intervie... http://frontier.co.uk/investor_relations

Check out "Elite: Dangerous" it has a scientifically accurate 1:1 scale, fully Seamless Milky Way galaxy using a mix of procedural generation with artist direction http://elite-dan…

Upgraded to Windows 8 here by choice on a non-touch laptop.

They had a successful kickstarter campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangero... It also has a solid release date set for March 2014 and they are right on…

I'm personally more excited about Elite: Dangerous. http://elite.frontier.co.uk by David Braben (from Raspberry Pi) It will have a scientifically based galaxy with rotating an orbi…

They fixed this in F#.

Why over Scala? * .NET runs everywhere now without problems, the JVM doesn't have a reliable IOS implementation and Dalvik on Android is too slow for the things I'm doing and many …

Why over Haskell? * Easy multi-platform targetting and platform bindings without fuss. * Mature and supported BCL and 3rd party libraries * Access to the .NET ecosystem tooling lik…

Why over OCaml? * Easy multi-platform targetting and platform bindings without fuss. * Mature and supported BCL and 3rd party libraries * Access to the .NET ecosystem tooling like …

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/07/08/tabbles-org... http://fsharp.org/testimonials/#tabbles-1 Completely in F# see comments above http://www.rawbots.net/ are using F# i…

F# is general purpose and multi-paradigm, it even has OO classes and imperative for and while loops. I for one got into .NET because of F# and to me .NET is just like any other lan…

F# is general purpose and multi-paradigm, it even has OO classes and imperative for and while loops and I get the same perf as C# and even more in some cases. I for one got into .N…