Our latest coverage of Star Citizen.
Star Citizen has caught the extraction shooter bug as it rolls out a limited-time mission based on the player-initiated Jumptown wars of Alpha 3.16. The update introduced a hidden drug lab that drew players in from across the galaxy for some unsanctioned mayhem. “This clash resulted in a perpetual tug-of-war between far-flung factions and home-grown heroes over control of the [...]
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Star Citizen is giving its interstellar pilots their own personal parking space with the addition of persistent hangars in Alpha 3.23. They’re basically instanced locations where players can dock their owned ships and hang out after a hard days’ work among the stars. Persistent hangars will be available on a player’s home planet and can be accessed by getting landing [...]
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Star Citizen has been in alpha testing for over a decade now, with the finish line still seemingly far out of sight. Cloud Imperium Games, however, reports that its now making headway on the multiplayer space sim’s development and that it’s closer than ever to the game’s long-awaited Version 1.0 “commercial release” with just few more major hurdles to overcome. [...]
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Star Citizen is taking its first-person shooter experience to the next level with new features and improvements to bring the sci-fi space simulator’s MMOFPS side up to par with AAA shooters. That includes the addition of backpack reloading, dynamic crosshairs, new scopes, and procedural recoil. First up is backpack reloading which is a longer reload that will replace the original [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games has confirmed ongoing rumors of multiple rounds of layoffs at the Star Citizen studio over the past few weeks. The layoffs were reportedly tied to the studio’s back-to-office mandate and multiple employees’ reluctance to move from Austin, Texas to the new office complex in Manchester, UK. “Now that we are back in office and seeing the progress [...]
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Star Citizen is running another Free Fly event to help draw more players into its persistent sci-fi sandbox universe. The free-play event will allow new players to explore the entire game world with a handful of free ships that you can use to get around. Developer Cloud Imperium Games is also encouraging existing Star Citizen players to invite their friends [...]
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Star Citizen broke its year-to-date crowdfunding record when it raked in $28.4 million in sales last month, with its annual Intergalactic Aerospace Expo doing the heavy lifting. Sales are also expected to surpass last year’s figures, assuming that December turns out to be at least as profitable as the past month. So far, the still in-development MMO has raised a [...]
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It’s that time of the year when you can take free spaceship rides in Star Citizen as the sci-fi MMO kicks off its annual in-game Intergalactic Space Expo. As part of the event, everyone can jump into the game for free and test drive different ships from various manufacturers until November 30th. This year’s event is being held in New [...]
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Star Citizen’s big Intergalactic Aerospace Expo returns next week for its annual two-week run. The free-play event will run from November 17th to November 30th, allowing existing players to try out a long list of ships and hopefully encourage new players to buy-in to the MMO space sim. Throughout the event, everyone will be able to test drive over a [...]
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Cloud Imperium Games took the wraps off Star Citizen’s new “preview channel” that will run alongside the Persistent Universe alpha server. The new test server will go live on October 31st and will feature the first playable version of the new Pyro System at launch. The preview channel, however, will initially be available exclusively to a randomly selected group of [...]
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