Official Site: Star Citizen
Studio: Cloud Imperium Games Corporation/Roberts Space Industries
Launch Date: N/A
Genre: Sci-fi Sandbox
Business Model: B2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous betas Commanders 2.3 next month (January 28, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Frontier announced that the beta for Elite Dangerous' 2.3 update, dubbed Commanders, will release to Horizons beta players...
Star Citizen cracks the code of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence isn't merely being thrown into Star Citizen because of its futuristic theme but because the tech is essential to how the game...
Star Citizen aims for a mid-February patch
If you are not satisfied with being aware of a game at its broadest, highest-level perspective during development, you might be keen instead to...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s new shop, Crowfall’s investor tally (January 21, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon opened up a brand-new web store. "Currently, we are listing four crowdfunding packages from our prior...
Star Citizen fends off pirates (the fun kind)
One thing that's for certain in the future of interstellar expansion, and that is the assurance that plucky pirates will take their Jolly Rogers...
Star Citizen Q&A addresses the persistent universe
For MMORPG players, at least, the holy grail of Star Citizen's rollout is its persistent universe: a shared, ongoing server that's most familiar to...
Make My MMO: The Repopulation’s new owner, Shards Online’s alpha (January 14, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Above & Beyond announced that Hero Engine company Idea Fabrik has acquired all rights to its indie sci-fi sandbox...
Here’s how Star Citizen’s alien languages are being constructed from nothing
"Don't waste your time learning Klingon, it ain't no use," Luna sang way back in 1996, but clearly, they had never met Britton Watkins,...
Star Citizen players capture the game’s beauty in new dev video
Thanks to the new camera controls that came in Alpha Update 2.6.0, Star Citizen players have been capturing all sorts of striking vistas from...
Make My MMO: Refunds for Hero’s Song (January 7, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, refunds continue for Hero's Song, which was canceled the day after Christmas with the promise to reimburse all...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2016
Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2016, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...
MMO Year in Review: Turbine gave the ring to the eagles (December 2016)
This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
Star Citizen talks about the process of creating lore
"We wanted to take some time to day and talk about the process, how lore is actually made for a video game, since that's...
Betawatch: Hero’s Song abruptly stops the music (December 30, 2017)
This kill-happy year of 2016 has claimed a lot of lives, and the last week has also killed another game. Hero's Song has been...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Anticipated MMORPG for 2017 and Beyond
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Anticipated MMORPG for 2017 and Beyond, which was awarded to Star Citizen last year in...
Here’s why Star Citizen is using Lumberyard – and why CIG waited to tell us
Just before the holiday weekend, Cloud Imperium announced that both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Lumberyard, Amazon’s robust game engine, and in...
Make My MMO: Shards Online’s January alpha, Star Citizen’s Star Marine (December 24, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shards Online announced it'll kick off its alpha early in the new year, on January 13th. "Based on the...
The Game Archaeologist: Wing Commander Online and Privateer Online
In late 2012, former Wing Commander developer-slash-movie director Chris Roberts emerged from a decade of obscurity to ask for help to fund his vision...
Star Citizen launches 2.6 Star Marine, announces Amazon Lumberyard partnership
It's always nice to be able to report good news about Star Citizen, as one of our readers noted when sending us this tip, and...
Betawatch: Revelation Online does the beta warp again (December 23, 2016)
It was bound to happen. No, really, it was; we were told that Revelation Online would head into its second round of closed testing,...
