Our latest coverage of Star Citizen.
Chris Roberts announced today that Cloud Imperium Games, the studio behind Star Citizen, raised $46M in funding from a private investor valuing his enterprise at $460M. Alongside the fundraising announcement Roberts revealed that Star Citizen's single player title Squadron 42 will be released sometime in the summer of 2020. No word on when the game's persistent universe is set to [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games announced today that Star Citizen will be launching on April 15th, 2018 with its full MMO module and all other promised features. To celebrate the official launch of the game, the game will be selling special limited edition Corsair X900 Capital ships for $79,000 each (50% off their regular price and with a special limited time insignia). [...]
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Slowly making its way towards the "longest time spent in development" record (though that will be hard to top when compared to Duke Nukem Forever), Star Citizen has released its 3.0 Alpha to all of the people who backed the game. To Star Citizen's credit, though, it appears as if they are making steady progress towards a release. Accessing the PTU will [...]
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Star Citizen faces its biggest legal challenge yet as German studio Crytek takes Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries to court for alleged breach of contract and copyright infringement. The case was filed in the Central District of California Western Division on December 12, 2017 and runs for 15 pages. After a brief overview, it seems Crytek has some [...]
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Star Citizen has just announced their new in-game faceware feature, Faceover Internet Protocol (FOIP), at a recent demo at Gamescom 2017. Faceover IP uses motion-capture technology that tracks a user's facial movements and expressions, and with real-time playback projects these facial movements onto their in-game character. Along with the Diogenic IP, which allows for realistic distortion of a player's voice [...]
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Star Citizen and delays go together like peanut butter and jelly. Or, peanut butter and chocolate if you prefer that. All jokes aside, it appears that the launch of Star Citizen's 3.0 Alpha could be delayed, according to a scheduled report from the developers. Reddit was quick to start to break down the report, with user JK3Farden being a sort [...]
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Star Citizen, also known as "Hey, wasn't that game supposed to come out a few years ago?", has revealed its changelog for Version 3.0.0! On top of that, a trailer for Star Citizen's Alpha 3.0 has been released as well - and to be fair, it really does look rather amazing, despite many people being tired of its persistent in-development [...]
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Star Citizen is always a hot topic for drama these days. The crowd-funded sci-fi space sim was due to release in 2014, but has been delayed for three years already. As a result, rumors have spread across the internet, from the idea that the game is not coming out to that Star Citizen is in debt and is now owned [...]
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On April 14, 2017 Star Citizen published a highly detailed schedule report for the 3.0 Planetary Tech update. The web post was accompanied by a bizarre 20 minute video that goes into the minutia of the development team's internal project management system. I'm not sure who such a video is aimed at, but the dialogue reminded me of the dystopian [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games, the studio behind Star Citizen, announced that they are considering parting ways with DirectX completely in favor of Vulkan. The graphics API would make Star Citizen compatible with Windows 7,8, and 10, with the possibility of making the game playable on Linux computers. Whereas DirectX requires players to be running Windows 10. “Years ago we stated our [...]
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