Our latest coverage of Star Citizen.
Cloud Imperium Games took the wraps off Star Citizen’s new “preview channel” that will run alongside the Persistent Universe alpha server. The new test server will go live on October 31st and will feature the first playable version of the new Pyro System at launch. The preview channel, however, will initially be available exclusively to a randomly selected group of [...]
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Star Citizen is slowly moving closer to full launch (emphasis on slowly) as Cloud Imperium Games rolls out Alpha 3.21 ahead of this weekend’s CitizenCon 2023. Dubbed Mission Ready, the update introduced a handful of new missions, a new bomber-type ship, and a long list of fixes for the space simulation MMO. With Alpha 3.21’s release, players can now take [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games’ latest developer video offers a preview of two new missions coming to Star Citizen sometime in the future. The first mission will task players with assisting a hacker group of bored rich kids called Bit Zero steal secure data. To accomplish this, they’ll need to infiltrate underground facilities, access the servers holding the data, and defend the [...]
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A former Cloud Imperium Games developer has spoken out about his views on the studio’s management of Star Citizen’s development. The exposé comes hot on the heels of our report on the game’s total crowdfunding numbers and layoffs within the studio. The anonymous developer, who reportedly worked on multiple gameplay systems for the sci-fi sim in the seven years that [...]
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Back in June, we reported that Star Citizen had managed to rake in $590 million in crowdfunding since development started on the game over a decade ago. This week, the still-in-development sci-fi space sim has hit another crowdfunding milestone when it broke the $600 million crowdfunding mark. As of this writing, Cloud Imperium Games has amassed a total of $600,578,063 [...]
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It’s now been roughly 12 years since development started on Star Citizen. Over the past decade, developer Cloud Imperium Games has promised custom tools that would help speed up development on the multiplayer space simulator, the latest of which is the new mission maker that the studio revealed earlier this month. Unfortunately, it looks like the tools did nothing to [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games has officially welcomed Turbulent, its long-time development partner on Star Citizen, as a permanent member of the CIG family. Turbulent is best known for its work on the sci-fi MMO’s web presence, platform capabilities, and the development of its persistent universe, and has been working with CIG on the project since 2019. The partnership with Turbulent has [...]
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Star Citizen continues to amass funds through its crowdfunding campaign despite being in an extended alpha testing phase for nearly a decade. The game has recently reached an impressive total of $590 million in crowdfunding, with a surge in pledges observed in May, possibly attributed to the Invictus Launch Week free-fly event. To put this enormous budget into perspective, PCGamesN [...]
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Last week marked the official debut of Star Citizen’s newest ship manufacturer: Mirai, the performance brand of the sci-fi MMO’s industrial-oriented shipbuilder, MISC. In Cloud Imperium Games’ latest developer video, the studio unveiled one of the manufacturers creations in the form of the Mirai Fury, which looks a lot like Star Wars’ TIE interceptor. Picture a compact seat with a [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games is gearing up for the next stage of Star Citizen’s seemingly never-ending alpha as they begin testing Alpha 3.19 in preparation for its launch on the live alpha servers. The update will bring a whole host of new features to the space simulation MMO, including a revamped layout for Lorville, salvage missions, improved AI behavior, new tractor [...]
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