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Star Citizen alpha 3.9 Locked Up & Loaded is live with survival effects, new mission, and prison (!)
It'll probably never stop sounding silly when alpha MMOs make a bit to-do about their patches, but it's gonna keep on happening, and today...
Star Citizen studio Cloud Imperium just picked up another $17.25M from investors
Looks like Star Citizen and Squadron 42 company Cloud Imperium just got a bit more rope, as its investor groups have bought up more...
Star Citizen: Alpha 3.8 on the PTU, SOCS interview, Pillar Talk, and the BBC Click investigation
Star Citizen is having a huge last week before the holidays. Let's round it all up, shall we?
First, the patch: Alpha 3.8 was pushed...
BBC tech program Click promises investigation into Star Citizen’s delays
No matter what sorts of progress the alpha builds of Star Citizen make, there's always going to be a question of when the...
Star Citizen hypes this weekend’s CitizenCon, plans new community hub and free-fly event
We're about to have another big MMO convention weekend: this one for Star Citizen, as CitizenCon begins on Saturday. But as it so often...
Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...
Star Citizen reveals a non-functional $600 ship at a private function for its Concierge level backers
There's apparently another new Star Citizen ship on the way. A pretty pricey one, too. That news isn't terribly remarkable considering some of the...
Star Citizen’s new Pillar Talk series stars key devs discussing the 3.6 alpha
Your eyes aren't deceiving you: Cloud Imperium has brought back Pillar Talk as a real thing for the Star Citizen community, and it's not...
Lawful Neutral: The war over Star Citizen in Crytek v. Cloud Imperium Games
Hello citizens! Today, I'm going to talk about a little game that's been flying under the radar and I think deserves some air time:...
Forbes characterizes Star Citizen’s development as ‘incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale’
If you have only the faintest idea what has gone on with Star Citizen since its initial Kickstarter, a new Forbes piece on the game...
Star Citizen swaps Around the Verse for Inside Star Citizen as it deep dives its own Cloud City
Around the Verse is back this week for Star Citizen fans, although it's gotten a bit of an overhaul: It's now called Inside Star...
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts thinks that Anthem is worth saving
Not content to merely oversee the construction of the greatest space sim of all time, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts has ideas how to right...
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts dishes on alpha 3.5 and 3.6, including customization, multi-crew, and persistence
There is no Around the Verse this week, as folks tuned into Star Citizen already know - the studio announced last week that it...
Squadron 42 studio Foundry 42 is rebranding under Star Citizen’s Cloud Imperium conglomerate
Foundry 42, the Chris Roberts subsidiary studio that's been working on Star Citizen's singleplayer spinoff Squadron 42, is getting a bit of a rebrand...
Perfect Ten: Hit franchises that were almost made into MMORPGs
For my money, there are few more tantalizing and agonizing thoughts than the great "What Ifs?" of the MMO genre. What if one title...
Perfect Ten: MMO arguments we need to put down
You know what I hate? No, not just botting. No, not people with more cash to spend on game development than sense about whether...
Star Citizen is working on planets and tech, and also Chris Roberts’ kids are adorable
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is... let's call it mini, clocking in under five minutes. But CIG's Chris Roberts and Eric Kieron...
Choose My Adventure: Sorry, everyone, but I had fun in Star Citizen
In spite of best efforts and even better advice, it's often pretty easy to have other folks bring you down for enjoying something. We...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG studio had the best communication in 2018?
This past fall, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts raised more than a few eyebrows when he claimed that "no other game shares as much information...
Star Citizen ATV, Squadron 42’s projected 2020 beta, and Cloud Imperium’s $46M private investment
This week's Around the Verse does touch on the 3.4 release of Star Citizen, but the big news is definitely from Squadron 42, which...