ELITE: DANGEROUS gets first major expansion, HORIZONS

Frontier Developments have announced Horizons, the first major expansion to Elite: Dangerous. Horizons adds the ability to land on planets (airless moons and rocks in the first place, planets with atmospheres later on) and conduct mining, trading and combat over and on the planetary surfaces.

The expansion will also add the ability to deploy Surface Recon Vehicles (SRVs) and will add several new ships, the first of which is the Cobra Mk. IV.

Horizons will be a paid-for expansion and is expected to be released in December for PC and in early 2016 for the X-Box One version of the game.