Star Citizen

PC / Simulation / Release: 2014 / ESRB: U

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Star Citizen lead would 'definitely consider' PlayStation 4 port

Star Citizen lead would 'definitely consider' PlayStation 4 port

Star Citizen, the ambitious space sim from Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts, raised a staggering $6.2 million. That met the game's PC development goals and then some, but Roberts says he's not opposed to putting it on other platforms as well.

Read more: 'It's essentially a PC with a friendlier operating system' »

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Star Citizen ends crowdfunding with $6.2 million

Star Citizen ends crowdfunding with $6.2 million

Chris Roberts' ambitious space sim Star Citizen has completed its push for cash, gathering more than $6.2 million from Kickstarter and pledges on its official Roberts Space Industries site. The combined total makes it the largest crowdfunded game to date.

Read more: More than $2 million collected over the weekend »

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Star Citizen video shows off first gameplay with AI pilots

Star Citizen video shows off first gameplay with AI pilots

Star Citizen is winging its way to the conclusion of a highly successful crowdfunding campaign, with only six days remaining and more than $3.4 million collected. But developer Chris Roberts still wants to hit the $4 million mark, so his company Cloud Imperium Games has released a new video showing a very early version of gameplay and pilot AI responding to commands.

Read more: 'Most sophisticated AI I've attempted' »

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Star Citizen dev: Mobile game scene will be a bloodbath

Star Citizen dev: Mobile game scene will be a bloodbath

In part one of our Chris Roberts interview, the Star Citizen developer talked about what made him take a break from game making in the first place, and why he has returned. Today, he tackles the prospect of financing the development of a high-end PC-only game, and the tendency of the games industry to be bandwagoneers, particularly when it comes to the rise of new platforms like social and mobile.

Read more: PC gaming is not dead »

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Star Citizen blows through Kickstarter goal, still short overall

Star Citizen blows through Kickstarter goal, still short overall

Update: Star Citizen has surpassed it's $2 million goal and is now working on its stretch goals.

Chris Roberts' ambitious return to the space sim genre continues to gather momentum. The Kickstarter campaign for Star Citizen has reached its modest $500,000 goal with 26 days remaining, but the project still remains slightly behind the necessary $2 million needed to trigger the additional funding required to create the game.

Read more: Funding now stands at $1.85 million »

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Chris Roberts: Time between my new games was getting too long

Chris Roberts: Time between my new games was getting too long

When game developer Chris Roberts stopped by a couple of weeks ago to demonstrate his upcoming space combat opus, Star Citizen, he talked at length about his hiatus from the games industry, and why now was a prime time for his return.

In 2001, after helming multiple entries in the Wing Commander series--followed by Privateer and Freelancer--Roberts decided he needed a break. One of the key reasons was the technological limitations of the time.

Read more: Betting big on PC »

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Weekend Confirmed 135 - Star Citizen, Dishonored, Hitman: Absolution, ZombiU

Weekend Confirmed 135 - Star Citizen, Dishonored, Hitman: Absolution, ZombiU

Host Garnett Lee is away this week to attend the Nite to Unite charity event, but Jeff Cannata, Jeff Mattas are joined by special guest Xav de Matos from Joystiq to talk about a whole bunch of current and upcoming video game releases. Chris Roberts' Star Citizen project gets some love, as do Dishonored and Hitman: Absolution, and Cannata explains his growing excitement for the WiiU launch lineup, after having had some more hands-on time with the system. Finishing Moves wraps up the show proper, followed by another brief TailGate session.

Listen: Weekend Confirmed Episode 135 »

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Star Citizen adds Kickstarter as crowdfunding option

Star Citizen adds Kickstarter as crowdfunding option

After the faulty launch of its own crowdfunding campaign for Star Citizen, Cloud Imperium Games and developer Chris Roberts have added Kickstarter as a payment option to relieve its beleaguered Roberts Space Industries web site.

Read more: $2 million is still the goal »

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Star Citizen demands Kepler GPU for 'full experience'

Star Citizen demands Kepler GPU for 'full experience'

Chris Roberts wants his new space sim Star Citizen to bring back the glory days of high-end PC gaming. An FAQ on the official site has revealed just how high-end your PC will need to be to run the game when it is finally released.

Read more: i7 2500 with GTX 670 for 'full experience' »

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Star Citizen is Wing Commander creator's next game

Star Citizen is Wing Commander creator's next game

Just one short month ago, we reported that Chris Roberts, the creative mind behind titles such as Wing Commander, Privateer, and Freelancer, was working on a new game. This past Monday, Roberts dropped in to give us a first-look at Star Citizen, and talk about his return to creating epic space sims.

If you were a PC gamer back in the early 1990's, there's a pretty good chance that you're familiar with the Wing Commander series. As a gamer, I'd thoroughly enjoyed much of Roberts' work, so I was was optimistic about the early tech demo.

Read more: The return of the epic space sim »

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Wing Commander creator making a new game

Wing Commander creator making a new game

Chris Roberts has been out of the gaming public eye for more than 15 years since his work on the highly acclaimed Wing Commander games. But now, a series of bread crumbs are starting to appear that make it clear that Roberts is coming back for an encore.

Read more: Working on something 'that embraces everything' »

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