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First images of Elite: Dangerous surface

"I'm sure many of you will recognise the location."

Elite: Dangerous producer Michael Brookes has revealed the first in-progress screenshots of Frontier Developments' resurrection of the space trading and combat series.

Brookes originally e-mailed these pics to backers before placing them on Frontier's forums. "I'm sure many of you will recognise the location," he noted. Well, do you?

Elite: Dangerous marks the first game in the series since 1995's Frontier: First Encounters. This latest entry raised a whopping £1,578,316 on Kickstarter and is due on PC in March 2014, with a Mac version to follow approximately three months later.