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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 ȣ100 Elite Dangerous Premium Beta begins as Star Citizen stalls
Frontier’s Elite: Dangerous has exited alpha and officially entered premium beta. Presumably the premium beta phase is thus named because entry to it requires a 100 purchase. Normal beta access (to kick off at an as-of-yet unspecified time) costs 50 while a standard game pre-order costs 35 – although there’s …
Read More »Star Citizen dev snaps up Diablo III lead game producer
Blizzard lead game producer Alex Mayberry has joined Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium as executive producer. Mayberry will oversee all product development for the crowdfunded space sim and will manage development across its studios around the world.He will report directly to Cloud Imperium Games CEO and co-founder Chris Roberts. After …
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 »Diablo III lead game producer joins Star Citizen team
Alex Mayberry overseeing product development of crowdfunded space sim
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 …
Read More »Star Citizen funding passes $40m
Chris Roberts' crowd-funded space exploration title generates $99 per backer
Read More »Star Citizen receives $4m in two months
Chris Roberts' Space sim MMO has now raised a total of $37m
Read More »Eidos Montreal and Star Citizen pledge AMD Mantle support
AMD’s new PC graphics API Mantle has received the backing of two new game developers. Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Thief creator Eidos Montreal and Star Citizen creator Cloud Imperium Games have both said they will utlilise the software in future titles. Mantle is a new API that will supposedly …
Read More »Star Citizen crowdfunding pot reaches $25m
Star Citizen, the galactic space trading game by Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts has now raised $25 million in crowdfunding In aproject update, Robert’s wrote that the game had reached $24m just last week and has added another million in the week since: This milestone also means that October has …
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