Studio known primarily for Star Citizen.
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Whatever happened to Line of Defense, The Exiled, and Pathfinder Online?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
Star Citizen looks ahead to 3.2, unveils the new Hercules Starlifter concept ship for sale next week
CIG's Sandi Gardiner and Eric Kieron Davis are back with another installment of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, bookending a brief check-in with the...
One Shots: A well-rounded Hobbit (breakfast)
With the prodigious and well-known appetite of Hobbits, it's a total surprise to me that the Shire hasn't been stripped bare with these creatures'...
Star Citizen shows off its sleek starter ship while Squadron 42 discusses its storytelling
The word "Origin" has a special meaning to Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen team, so it's not surprising that there has been special...
Star Citizen deep-dives the guts and glory of the character customization system
Cloud Imperium Narrative Director Dave Haddock joins the Around the Verse crew for this week's episode of the Star Citizen community video. The majority...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
Star Citizen promises shirts for its two million backer milestone
Back in 2015, Star Citizen passed a million registered users. At this point, the game has passed two million. Three years later, it's doubled....
Saga of Lucimia defends Star Citizen’s slow progress, Shroud of the Avatar’s transparency
One of the challenges for indie and crowdfunded MMORPGs is surely the nature of their development: plugging along without much fanfare, with players seeing...
Star Citizen runs down ships and kicks off a free-fly weekend
On this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, I can't decide whether Sandi Gardiner or Eric Kieron Davis has the cooler shirt, but it...
Star Citizen homes in on the mobiGlas, checks in with the UK team, and rolls back alpha 3.1.1
The Star Citizen team is still riding high on the launch of alpha 3.1 last weekend. The latest episode of Around the Verse checks...
Star Citizen’s 3.1 alpha is live for the holiday weekend
If you're bored on the holiday weekend, and you happen to be a Star Citizen backer, you're going to be taking to the skies,...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse updates players on Squadron 42 and flight AI
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is only indirectly about Star Citizen. The episode instead centers on Squadron 42, which is either a...
Perfect Ten: More anthropomorphic MMO studio conversations
A while back, you may recall that I posted some of my conversations with anthropomorphized concepts of MMO studios. If you don't remember this,...
Over 2,000,000 people have now registered accounts for Star Citizen
Star Citizen hit another milestone this week: It's reached 2,000,000 citizens. Accounts, specifically.
The game has been in production since before its Kickstarter launched almost...
Star Citizen brings back old ships for sale, asks backers to vote on alpha 3.2’s priority projects
Do you have too much money? Awesome. Star Citizen has some ideas for where you can spend it - say, on some new ships?...
Here’s how Star Citizen’s character customizer is coming along
Sea of Thieves' character customization got you down? Star Citizen won't be making that mistake. This week's Around the Verse details the game's roadmap...
The Daily Grind: Is ‘griefing’ possible in an open PvP sandbox?
I was snooping around the Star Citizen Spectrum forums last week when I bumped into a topic that made me back up my snooping...
Star Citizen on some of the big ships of alpha 3.1 and the St Patrick’s Day event
I hope you like starships because in this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, you're getting two whole segments on just that....
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse talks persistent universe progress and optimization
Were you in the audience for this week's live filming of Star Citizen's Around the Verse? Probably not, but some superfans were. Don't worry;...
One Shots: This is too weird for even me
I like to think that I have a fairly open mind when it comes to accepting strange sights and races in fantasy MMORPGs, but...
