Our latest coverage of Star Citizen.
In a special episode of 10 For The Chairman, Chris Roberts sits down with Character Art Director Josh Herman to talk character face designs, and show-off footage that's closing in on the uncanny valley: the point where we can't differentiate between humans and replicas. The show answers player questions, but the highlight is the facial design footage. When the game [...]
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Those of you that are following Star Citizen's progress may be interested in checking out the 52-minute Alpha 3.0 demo from gamescom. In the demo, a player is shown partaking in a planetary landing, grabbing a quest from an NPC in cinematic style, disembarking from their ship to board a derelict ship in first-person shooter mode, and more. It's all [...]
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What happens when Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues and Star Citizen, two of the most successful crowdfunded games of all time, work together on a cross-promotion? Apparently this. The first 250 players to purchase the $65 Star Citizen Aeronaut Helmet Starter Bundle and the first 150 players to purchase the $400 Star Citizen Airship City Home Bundle will receive [...]
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In a recent post on Gamasutra, Star Citizen's Lead Level Designer Michael Barclay discusses what goes into designing a sandbox-oriented level in Star Citizen. The game has a number of "scripted" levels, but Barclay wanted to focus on "sandbox" levels specifically. The result is mostly a bunch of high level chatter about how the team is working to provide massive [...]
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The new year is barely a month old and the 2016 MMO line-up continues to grow. It's easy to get whirled away on the hype-train express in eager anticipation of an upcoming title. I was amped for WildStar, spoon-fed excitement by online communities and gossip from friends telling me that World of Warcraft's killer was about to be unleashed. Hype rarely lives up [...]
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Say what you will about Star Citizen. Really, say whatever you want because, regardless of all the drama surrounding the world's largest crowdfunding project, it is still raking in a whole lot of cash. As of several hours ago, Star Citizen has broken the $100 million mark. For those of you who haven't been keeping up, that's "so much money [...]
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Following a short period of limited access, the long-awaited 2.0 update for the Star Citizen Alpha is now available for all backers. Everyone who has backed Star Citizen at a level that gives them access to the game can now take part in the same activities shown in the awesome trailer first shown at The Game Awards. Run around in [...]
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Shortly after watching Mark Hamill awkwardly ask Chris Roberts if he was going to be on the Squadron 42 poster at The Game Awards last night, the awards show got to be the first place that gamers could see the new Star Citizen Alpha 2.0 trailer. The new trailer shows off the FPS module, multiple players, seamlessly jumping into ships, [...]
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Roberts Space Industries are currently holding their annual convention, CitizenCon. As part of this year's festivities, part of Squadron 42's all-star cast has been revealed. Gary Oldman is headlining the current lineup as the only cast member to have their in-game character revealed as of yet. Gary Oldman will be playing Admiral Ernest Bishop, pictured above. Other familiar faces include [...]
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Upcoming Sci-Fi Persistent World MMORPG, Star Citizen, has closed the doors to their forums for public use. Only users who have "BACKER" or "READY" status on their accounts will be able to post on the forums, Community Hub, and Issue Council. The official post is by Community Manager, Jared Huckaby, and was made due to the amount of negativity and [...]
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