Star Citizen News

In spite of its overly-long development process, Star Citizen continues to bring in money from supporters and backers to fund its ongoing production. In the latest Robert Space Industries blog post, developer Cloud Imperium Games reports that they’ve received over $350 million in pledges after nearly a decade of crowdfunding with $5 million raised in February alone. The game has [...]

Star Citizen is running another Free Fly event to give potential space explorers a chance to take the game, and several spaceships, out for a test run. The free trial will run from February 15-25, during which time players will be able to pilot six of the game’s available ships. Each ship will give players a taste of the different [...]

After being delayed for a little over a month, Star Citizen has finally launched its first server-wide dynamic event dubbed “Assault on Stanton.” During the multi-part event, players will join forces with the UEE Navy to take on the terrorist organization known as XenoThreat in massive space battles against enemy capital ships. “Unmatched in size, scope, and scale for any [...]

A few days ago, Cloud Imperium Games announced that they were rolling out the first-ever Star Citizen server-wide dynamic event this week called Assault on Stanton. Unfortunately, the developers felt that the scenario needed a little bit more polish and decided to push it back to next year. The multi-phase event will supposedly span several days and will feature large-scale [...]

Just before the weekend, Cloud Imperium Games rolled out the Star Citizen Alpha 3.12 update that introduces a host of new features to the sci-fi space simulation MMO. The update, called Assault on Stanton features the addition of refinery decks, gas clouds, and a dynamic events system. According to a recent press release, the dynamic events system will be put [...]

Cloud Imperium Games will be making a number of adjustments to the ship-piloting system in the upcoming Star Citizen Alpha 3.10 update. The studio’s Vehicle Experience Team talked about these changes in last week’s developer stream. First on the list are adjustments to hovering. With the release of Alpha 3.10, hovering ships will gradually build up heat which, if left [...]

Cloud Imperium has just released the Alpha 3.8 Update for Star Citizen called New Frontiers. The massive update features a boatload, or should I say, shipload of new features and content as well as a new frozen planet called microTech and the final explorable planet in the Stanton System. “The home and HQ of the eponymous mega-corporation (makers of the [...]

This week’s Star Citizen Around the Verse episode starts off with a hilarious fan-made commercial featuring the all-terrain vehicle, the Cyclone, and huge guns. Character Art Director Josh Herman and LA Studio Director Erick Kieron Davis then follows up with a report on development progress starting off with visual effects work on the thrusters and a preview of the weapons [...]