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Crowdfunded space exploration game already nearing $63m in consumer donations
Read More »INTERVIEW: Braben and Roberts lock coordinates on open space
The space race has returned. More than 20 years after seminal franchises like Elite, Wing Commander and Star Wars: TIE Fighter set the bar for space simulation gaming, those that helped the genre first blast off are returning to making out-of-this-world games. Chief among them are David Braben, creator of …
Read More »International guests for PAX Australia announced
PAX enters its second year as an international expo with Australia's keynote address to be delivered by Pete Hines from Bethesda.
Read More »Star Citizen to enter Guinness Book of World Records
In-development space sim Star Citizen will enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest crowdfunded effort ever, lead developer Chris Roberts has announced. Roberts stated in a new post on Roberts Space Industries that the title will go into the record books "not as the largest crowdfunded game …
Read More »Roberts: There’s ‘potential’ for Star Citizen on PS4 and Xbox One
Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts has said that there’s some ‘potential’ to the idea of his $49m space sim appearing on next-gen consoles. I definitely decided very early on that I wasn’t going to focus or be worried about the last-gen consoles,” he told MCV. The current PS4 and Xbox …
Read More »268 people working on Star Citizen
Team behind crowd-funding sci-fi title spread across the world
Read More »Meet Foundry 42’s Star Citizens
New studio working on the biggest crowd-funded game IP in history. And it's hiring.
Read More »Chris Roberts ‘frustrated’ by Star Citizen scam accusations
Criticism of problems with the early build of crowdfunded record-breaker Star Citizen has bothered creator Chris Roberts. To date the game has raised an incredible $44,721,324 from nearly 500,000 backers. The game’s first playable build, the Arena Commander, finally released this week after some delay. However, the early access build …
Read More »Blizzard’s Alex Mayberry joins Star Citizen dev as executive producer
Chris Robert’s studio Cloud Imperium Games has hired on ex-Blizzard producer Alex Mayberry as executive producer of its crowdfunding hit, Star Citizen. Mayberry will join Roberts and his team to wrangle the ever-expanding space simulation game, which currently boasts a purely crowdfunded budget approaching $44m. "After 10 years at Blizzard, …
Read More »Chris Roberts vows that Star Citizen won’t be sold
Star Citizen will not be sold, the many backers of the space simulator have been assured. The pledge comes as Chris Roberts’ crowdfunded title passes the astronomical $41m funding mark. To answer [those] worrying about the possibility of Cloud Imperium being acquired by another, bigger company – don’t worry! We …
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