Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) has had quite the lucrative year, with Star Citizen breaching the $200 million milestone and launching its first planet, Hurston. In an end-of-year letter, CEO Chris Roberts revealed that CIG had secured an addition private investment of $46 million, as well as launched its Squadron 42 …
Read More »Star Citizen developer responds to Crytek’s lawsuit over misuse of its CryEngine
Developers of ambitious space simulator Star Citizen, Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries have responded to Crytek’s legal action taken against the teams for misuse of its CryEngine. This won’t be the only legal battle that Crytek is embroiled in, as it already has a former employee suing over …
Read More »Even Star Citizen’s damage is pretty
Considering backers of Star Citizen have spent $75 million between them on the game's funding, most of which has gone on ships that weren't out yet, presumably most are keen to keep their space faring vehicles in tip top shape. Still, if Star Citizen has done one thing throughout its …
Read More »Star Citizen funding continues to grow- hits $43 million
Star Citizen seems to be hitting new funding milestones so often that it can be hard to keep up, the upcoming space simulator has now raised $43 million in funding despite having only just hit the $42 million milestone two weeks ago. Chris Roberts announced the milestone in a blog …
Read More »Star Citizen continues to rake in millions
Anyone with more than a fraction of a bitcoin sitting in a wallet at the moment, is no doubt starting their day by popping up MtGox or a similar site and checking the current value. It's understandable, that currency's individual cost is flying up day after day. But if you're …
Read More »Star Citizen’s next stretch goal is incredible facial capture
Star Citizen just gets more and more exciting. A new trailer recently released during an AMD conference drew the attention away from even a new generation of GPUs and it looks likely to happen again. Having hit $20 million since its original campaign (which only ‘required' $500,000 for completion) project …
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