In a recent update on the Xbox Wire site, the team at Chucklefish spoke about bringing Starbound from the PC to the Xbox One. In the post, Chucklefish touches upon the different technological challenges as well as the hurdles of bringing a story to a sandbox game. If you are a fan of Starbound currently or looking to take to the stars when the game comes to Xbox One ‘Later this year’ the article breaks down the thought that goes into making a successful game more accessible.

After five years of development and a year and a half of Early Access, Starbound is officially released. Sure, most of us have been playing it since 2013, but that was rough alpha and beta territory. Now, with the landmark one-point-oh number on the end, Starbound is feature complete and ready to impress.

You and your swarthy seven person crew have battled across the galaxy. Creeping around hostile bird-person ruins, mining alien deserts for their precious resources, and vaporizing everything that runs at you with the urge to kill has only served to strengthen the bonds of you and your posse. However, you soon realize that the universe is a lot more narrow in scope than you expected, so you and your friends return to Earth and convert your space ship into a novelty food truck specializing in fajitas or something.

Starbound continues rolling through the updates, preparing for the inevitable day the developer proclaims it "ready". The latest release overhauls the combat system once again, taking one small step away from the smack and run style and one giant leap towards interesting and varied fights across the galaxy.

Well it's about time! A seemingly simple feature Starbound players have been calling for since day one is the ability to bookmark discovered planets for easy travel. At long last, storing the cool worlds you found is as simple as clicking "add bookmark"!

Remember that Starbound winter update that was teased back in December? Well, it's finally out in the stable build, and it's a big one. So many things have been tweaked and overhauled in Upbeat Giraffe, it's like playing a brand new game. Er, kinda.

If you've been following Starbound's development for the past year, you've been waiting for a few big features before you let yourself progress to the "painfully addicted" stage. That time may be soon, as the impending winter update has a massive list of changes, overhauls, re-balances and extras that we've been eager to get our hands on.

Having new items, enemies, weapons and worlds is always great, but so far most of Starbound's updates have required a complete wipe of your characters and worlds. All that exploration gone in an instant! With this latest patch, however, the game takes a huge step forward in removing that crippling feature. Just one more wipe to go!

We have new info regarding Starbound's upcoming patch, including new weapons, aesthetics, and games modes! But look out, for another wipe of hard earned player content and game saves is sure to come. Don't worry though: it's well worth it.

Starbound, the latest big splash onto the scene of indie-exploration games, has already sold over a million copies according to developer Chucklefish. That's pretty impressive considering that the game is still in beta and it's only been available for purchase for a month!

Days after launching as an early release beta, Starbound has rolled out the first of many updates to add new content and tweak the old. The main focus of this patch was to re-balance weapon damage and the leveling system, but several new items and enemies made the cut, including a staple for sandbox games: grappling hooks!

The team at Chucklefish is still toiling away on the Terraria-like sandbox game Starbound. Pre-orders opened up in mid-April and have been a rousing success, bringing in over $1.1 million from almost 50,000 future players. That's a lot of funding, especially for a small indie studio, and it bodes well for the future of Starbound.