I'll be honest, I feel like Star Citizen has grown so large that it now encompasses all games. Like, that game you just played last week? It's actually part of Star Citizen. But the dev team at Cloud Imperium Games certainly has a vision and plan for their title, and they showcased some of that at Gamescom last week.
Roberts Space Industries have released a brand new five minute trailer showcasing the current status of Star Citizen, the upcoming epic space universe that has now reached over 75 million dollars in crowd funding. What originally started as a small space combat game has exploded into a huge universe with space combat, ground combat, economy and trading, and world exploration.
Star Citizen, largely famous for being one of the most ambitious games currently in development (or ever, potentially), has just recently crested the $68,000,000 mark in its crowdfunding endeavor. Touting lifetime insurance as one of the many perks of pre-purchasing a souped up spaceship, developers Cloud Imperium have made the allure of buying into their unreleased MMO as tantalizing as ever. Luckily, though, nearly every interview with head honcho, Chris Roberts, has worked to assure "investors" that every dollar being spent isn't necessarily being whisked away to fulfill his dream of owning the world's first Wing Commander island theme park.
Star Citizen's Arena Commander module has been updated to version 0.9. The module is meant to give Star Citizen backers a taste of what the game has to offer, providing a glimpse into both the technology and gameplay that the full game will provide when it launches later next year.
PC Gamer caught up with Wing Commander and Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts at PAX Prime last week. In the interview they talk about the current state of the 50 million dollar crowd funded game, what the road map looks like for features, and where the game will be in 10 years.
Star Citizen, the upcoming game from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, has just broke the 20 million dollar threshold for funding. While the game had an initial funding phase on both Kickstarter and the Star Citizen website, once those campaigns close funding continued through add-on purchases and member additions.
We've only briefly talked about Star Citizen, which is Chris Roberts (Wing Commander, Privateer) return to PC gaming after a 10 year hiatus. The game started up crowd funding a little over a month ago on both its own site and more recently on Kickstarter. Funding actually wraps up tomorrow and while the initial goal was around 2 Million - the game is has crested the 5 million dollar mark with over 73,000 backers.
No, that image is not the TCS Tiger Claw you see above, though the ship's creator is very familiar with the famous ship from Wing Commander. That is a screenshot from Star Citizen, an incredibly ambitious new project from Chris Roberts. Roberts is famous for his days at Origin systems creating the Wing Commander series and then moving on to launch Freelancer and Starlancer. All of these games are from a genre that is all but extinct lately, the space simulator.
