Welcome everyone to Galactic Outfitting Weekly! Each week we’ll be taking you through the newest and coolest stuff Frontier puts on the Elite Dangerous store. With the launch of Horizons and Christmas just around the corner, Frontier has tons of new items up on the store, so lets dive right in.

First up,bobble heads. Those who were in the early betas for Elite might remember the cute little bobble head that rode on your dashboard. If, like me, you were dismayed when they were removed in the full release, you can now do a little happy dance. Bobble heads can now be purchased and used to decorate that boring old ship dashboard. But who wants boring pilot obbleheads when you can have a Christmas tree! Or, a collection of letters numbers and symbols you can use to spell whatever you want right on your ship’s dash. You can place up to ten bobble heads on the dashboards of most ships, allowing plenty of creative freedom in placing them, as well as cluttering up your otherwise pristine flight deck. The Christmas tree will set you back a modest three pounds, while the mix and match letters, of which there are a total of 71 alphanumeric symbols comes in at a slightly heftier ten pounds. Still, that’s not to much to pay for the ability to spell hashtag bad lone on my ships dash on stream!

If you’re feeling particularly festive and the tree bobble just isn’t enough for you, don’t worry. Frontier has dropped three sets of festive paint packs on us. The Asp, Cobra, and Sidewinder all get a little love  with swirls, snowflakes and stars replacing the normal two toned paint schemes. Best of all, each paint pack contains six different variants, meaning there’s sure to be one that you love.  In testing them out, we found that adding additional decals  tends to mar the look of the paintjob, so you may want to remove all those onionhead stickers for these.

Lastly, the Cobra Mk IV gets sweet skins as it blasts into the HOrizons expansion pack. The pack contains three variants, approved by Faulcon De Lacey themselves and sporting a nice military digital camo pattern. The Cobra Mk IV has unique lines compared to the other version of the ship, so it’s fitting that it gets it’s own nifty paint jobs as well. As if the ship wasn’t awesome enough, right?

Thats it for this first installment of Galactic Outfitting Weekly, but don’t worry. We’ll be back as long as Frontier keeps making awesome stuff for Elite.

Frontier Developments is set to launch the Horizons expansion to their galaxy sand box space sim, Elite: Dangerous today. Horizons is the start of the “Season 2” content for the game and will initially bring with it planetary landings, the ability to explore planetary surfaces in SRV space buggies and some basic crafting. Further content is planned for Season 2 including the ability to crew a single ship with multiple players.

Frontier has also whipped up a nice trailer to go with the launch, which you can check out below.

DayZ is still in the stages of development, but it’s slowly becoming quite the realistic survival game. If you don’t count the fact it’s full of zombies of course.

Joining the ranks of disease, exposure, hunger, thirst and other players who can also murder you if the zombies don’t are AI predator animals that Bohemia are beginning to add. The first examples are the old favourite – packs of hungry wolves. They can hunt and bring down their prey quite shockingly easy. Check out the trailer:

The footage is still work-in-progress so probably the wolves that make it to the final game will be a little bit tweaked. That besides, they look fast and fierce. A real threat to your survivors, armed or not. Have to wonder if they’ll go for zombies as well though.

Either way, the zombie infested wilds just got a little bit more dangerous.

Could you use a million dollars? Pretty sure the answer to that is yes, know my answer would be. Well, have I got some news for you.

Bethesda Softworks has been running a campaign since October for their MMO game, The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited called #MillionReasonsToPlay, which asks players why they enjoy playing the game. Now they’re offering one hell of a prize to one lucky player of the game – one million dollars paid out over 20 years. That’s quite an appealing giveaway.

If you’re interested then all you need to do is enter yourself by completing the entry form at https://millionreasons.elderscrollsonline.com_andcomplete by Sunday, January 10th 2016. Then you need to log into your TESO account and play the game during the sweepstakes period of between December 3, 2015 to January 10, 2016 to be in a chance of winning the big prize. There also some runner-up prizes of 3,000,000 Crowns (the game’s in-game currency) to a 1,000 second place winners.

The contest is open to residents of the US, UK, Canada (excluding Province of Quebec), Finland, France, Germany, Mexico, Norway, Russia and Sweden provided that you’re over 18; the winners will be drawn on Monday, February 1st 2016 and if you win the prize money will be paid out at $50,000 per year over the 20 year period.

Bethesda have hit on quite the giveaway to promote The Elder Scrolls Online, and you might as well give it a go. After all, there are worse ways to make a million.

Released recently for their free-to-play MMO game, the Ascendancy Supporter Packs that Grinding Gear Games made available for players of Path of Exile were quite widely criticised for their poor value.

Fortunately it seems like the developers were listening to the feedback, as Chris Wilson took to Reddit only an hour after their launch to apologise for the lack of value of the packs. They contained new Gargoyle Pets, Forum Titles, Portrait Frames, Points and the Awakening Extended Soundtrack; with Ascendancy T-shirts, Art Packs and new Portal Effects also being available in the higher packs. Unfortunately they were also rather pricey for what was on offer.

“Many people are disappointed with the value proposition of these new supporter packs,”  said Wilson. “While I am personally very pleased with the new effects, and handled the pricing myself, I am very ready to admit I was wrong. We will be adding portal effects to the two lowest packs and will be creating new weapon effects to go in all packs (four tiers total). Like with other recent packs, higher packs include all lower effects. The team are hard at work on these new effects and we’ll unveil them as soon as we can (next week?).”

Any packs that have already been bought will receive the new content once it has been released as well.

Always nice when a developer listens to its fans, isn’t it?