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Star Citizen’s alpha 4.0.1 is such a mess that CIG has cancelled the Red Festival free-fly event

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Last December, CIG head Chris Roberts stated an intention for alpha builds of Star Citizen would focus on "decoupling feature development from content creation...
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MMO Hype Train: Why it’s hard to hold on to hope for Star Citizen

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My very first PC was a 386 Pentium that I purchased with my own money in the early '90s. And I dearly loved that...

Star Citizen alpha 4.0 releases as a ‘preview’ version that runs parallel to the ongoing alpha 3.24.3

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CIG promised over and over that Star Citizen would get its alpha 4.0 release before the end of this year, and technically speaking, it...

Stick and Rudder: Star Citizen talks tools, gear, social features, and Squadron 42 at CitizenCon day one

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It's that time of year again for fans and followers of Star Citizen to come together in-person and digitally to see what's next in...

Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42

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The news that Star Citizen studio CIG forced developers to give up two weekends in order to make CitizenCon happen - followed by a...

Rumor: Star Citizen fans uncover a trademark filed by CIG for a potential third game

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The plot is either thickening or getting muddier depending on how one reads this latest bit of news uncovered by Star Citizen fans, as...

Slayscape, the procedurally generated battle royale RPG from Shroud of the Avatar’s execs, opens its Steam page

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The weird tale of Slayscape continues to unfurl. As a refresher, this self-described blend of battle royale, extraction FPS, and "RPG flavor" with procedurally...

Star Citizen’s current development roadmap tentatively plots alpha 4.0 for the third quarter of this year

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Regular readers and followers of Star Citizen news know that CIG has been promising a "road to 4.0" in recent months -- recall that...

Star Citizen’s 2022 financials offer additional information about investors and their expected returns

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When Star Citizen finally elected to post its 2022 financial report to the UK government (and in related reporting since), you might have seen...

Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts confirms development is moving to a full 1.0 release

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Last week, one of the developers of Star Citizen made what looked like a passing few references to "SC 1.0" that seemed to suggest...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs as Saturday morning cartoons

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My insane MMO and MMORPG thought experiments do indeed continue: Previously I considered what muffins MMO NPCs are, then I considered what flavor of...

CIG says Squadron 42 is ‘feature complete’ and entering polish phase in new gameplay trailer

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With all of the noise coming out of CIG's CitizenCon, the studio decided to unveil one last surprise at the closing of the event....
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs whose worlds were built from scratch

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Maybe I'm the only one to have stopped to think about it, but a great deal of the MMOs that we enjoy are based...

Star Citizen kitbashes a hovertank together and talks about vehicle creation in livestream

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We'll start with a bit of a vocabulary lesson just in case that headline confuses you: Kitbashing is a term usually used in tabletop...

Star Citizen heralds 2022 as a year of growth, touches on 3.18’s features and update plans for 2023

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At the close of 2022, CIG's Chris Roberts put out another chairman's letter that looks back at Star Citizen's last year and ahead to...

Stick and Rudder: Everything we learned from Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2022 presentations

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I've lost five hours so you don't have to. This year's CitizenCon event for Star Citizen was definitely something, and while a great deal of...

Star Citizen’s total crowdfunding just hit over half a billion dollars

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What can $500M get you? In the case of Star Citizen, more development coals shoveled into the fires of Chris Roberts' vision: The game's...

Star Citizen says persistence is on ‘a straight line to deployment’

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The PU of Star Citizen stands for "persistent universe," but that's only mostly true; players can't land on a planet with their ship, place...

Star Citizen QA tester is out of a job after pushing back against the company’s return-to-office policy [Updated]

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"Today, I lost my job at Cloud Imperium Games for standing up for my fellow coworkers," opens a LinkedIn post by a former employee...

Stick and Rudder: Some thoughts on Chris Roberts’ annual Star Citizen address

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As many of our readers are familiar by now, Chris Roberts has put out his annual Letter from the Chairman for the Star Citizen...

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