Official Site:Â Star Citizen
Studio:Â Cloud Imperium Games Corporation/Roberts Space Industries
Launch Date: N/A
Genre:Â Sci-fi Sandbox
Business Model:Â B2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Gamescom 2016: Star Citizen’s annual presentation
Gamescom will once again play host to Star Citizen's annual presentation today. Kicking off at 3 p.m. EDT (when this post first goes live!), the event...
Gamescom 2016: Star Citizen’s free-fly event
Cloud Imperium is on the Gamescom show floor this week demoing Star Citizen for press and fans alike. If you're wishing you could join...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs have special areas for paying players?
I was poking around in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop this weekend when I realized that ArenaNet is selling teleports to Noble's Folly....
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon plans early access, Dual Universe plans Kickstarter (August 13, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon announced that it's revving up for its Steam early access launch. Wipes (and nerfs) will continue...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse on the lives of dynamic NPCs
This week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse kicks off with a check-in from the Austin team, specifically PR, animation, and QA. The...
Star Citizen’s Sandi Gardiner vacates social media over harassment
Cloud Imperium VP of Marketing Sandi Gardiner, best known to gamers for her role as one of Star Citizen's most recognizable faces thanks to her...
Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davis talk about shooting Squadron 42
You would think that if one were ever able to get Luke Skywalker, Gimli, and that Wing Commander guy into the same room together,...
Star Citizen deep-dives catastrophic capital ship damage
On this week's Star Citizen:Â Around the Verse, you can safely skip to about 19:30 and peel your eyes wide open. Not that the rest...
What drives Star Citizen’s superbackers to spend $10,000 or more
By now, Star Citizen's crowdfunding success is quite well-known. But perhaps what isn't common knowledge is that there is a group of players --...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s state-of-the-game address (July 30, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained closed out a quiet July with a newsletter and state-of-the-game address. CSE boss Mark Jacobs told players that progress since...
Star Citizen’s new season of Around the Verse shakes up the format
Season three of Star Citizen's long-running Around the Verse series is kicking off this week with a special guest: Chris Roberts himself.
Roberts joins regular...
Make My MMO: Hero’s Song’s update and the Elite: Dangerous mystery map (July 23, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, John Smedley tweeted a few teasers for his upcoming pixel MMORPG Hero's Song. "We're at 5400 items in our game...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse: Procedural planets, GrimHex, and free-fly
The fourth and final 100th episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse is up -- OK, so it's really 103, right? But they are...
The Soapbox: Calling an MMO launch a launch
It's launch.
Can we collectively accept that? Marketing, developers, and players alike? Launch is launch. When your game launches, it has launched. If I can...
Make My MMO: Descent Underground (July 16, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Descent: Underground released a major AI update this week -- the Moon Collider’s advanced Kythera AI system -- plus...
Star Citizen has the financial backing of 500,000 fans
While much is made of Roberts Space Industries' work on Star Citizen, perhaps much less known is the job that Turbulent has performed. This...
Star Citizen rep: ‘Nothing special’ about $3000 Kickstarter refund
A Star Citizen backer who says he believes the game is a "scam" now says he's successfully procured a series of refunds for his Kickstarter pledge...
Make My MMO: People are actually buying Richard Garriott’s blood (July 9, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shroud of the Avatar's Richard Garriott and Starr Long shocked gamers by auctioning off art pieces that include their...
Star Citizen’s celebratory Around the Verse features the Bengal Carrier
Star Citizen is continuing its rollout of a three-part Around the Verse in celebration of its 100th episode. Sandi Gardiner is joined this week...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s newsletter, SOTA’s $9M funding (July 2, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained released its latest newsletter (at just under 8000 words, if you were curious - it's tradition...
