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Star Citizen reveals a non-functional $600 ship at a private function for its...
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 ship costs currently available, but what may raise...
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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 there, we were seeing new project after new project get funded, not...
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Star Citizen hypes this weekend’s CitizenCon, plans new community hub and...
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 does for these events, Cloud Imperium is running a free-fly event...
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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 game will actually be considered fully complete, especially as it continues to...
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Star Citizen: Alpha 3.8 on the PTU, SOCS interview, Pillar Talk, and the BBC...
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 out to all backers on the PTU last night, with planet tech v4, the...
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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 shares worth $17.25M in additional funds. “Today, Cloud Imperium...
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Star Citizen alpha 3.9 Locked Up & Loaded is live with survival effects, new...
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 enters the stage with the release of alpha 3.9 to...
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Star Citizen Live highlights the creation of the music of New Babbage
If you’re among the Star Citizen players who appreciate some of the ambient music made for the game, then you’ll likely enjoy the latest edition of Star Citizen Live, which featured composer Pedro...
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Chris Roberts says Star Citizen is ‘not a pipe dream’ in spite of taking...
It’s been some time since we’ve heard a peep from Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts — the 10 for the Chairman video series has ended, and we haven’t had a roundtable Pillar Talk since April, though that’s...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 288: ArcheAge again
Justin, Bree, and Mia discuss ArcheAge 2, TERA, LOTRO, Wizard101, Corepunk, Raph Koster's new MMO, and Star Citizen, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, Black Desert, Echo of Soul, SWG Legends, and...
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Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts says the game’s economy simulation tech is still...
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts, bleary-eyed and exhausted from the self-reported “running a company of 630 people spread around the globe, while directing two projects [which] already takes way more than...
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Star Citizen marks its eighth birthday with alpha 3.11’s release, free...
This coming Saturday, October 10th, will mark the eighth anniversary of Star Citizen’s reveal to the public, which in CIG terms is the game’s official birthday, and that means it’s time to celebrate....
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Star Citizen’s AMA confirms Squadron 42 has ‘a ways to go’ before beta, will...
The question that’s been on the lips of the Star Citizen community for the past several months has been in relation to Squadron 42’s development progress. So naturally, that would be one of the...
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Chris Roberts talks up Star Citizen and Squadron 42’s future, likening...
As part of the ongoing eight year birthday of Star Citizen’s launch (of alpha development), Chris Roberts tapped out a lengthy letter to the community in which he talked about the community, the...
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Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts and Richard Tyrer talk about plans for character...
We haven’t seen a whole lot of Chris Roberts in video form for quite a while (save for that brief cameo in the latest Inside Star Citizen episode), but with the recent Calling All Devs episode, the...
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Biggest MMO Disappointment of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Disappointment of 2020, which was awarded jointly to the cancellation of Peria Chronicles and the decline of...
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Star Citizen releases roadmaps and financials, Squadron 42 withholds release...
It’s been rather active over in the world of Star Citizen recently. The past few days have seen a number of unveilings, announcements, and posts, so let’s see if we can’t condense all of this for you...
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Star Citizen’s Tony Z on how dynamic events will work in the game
It’s pretty easy to assume that the entirety of gameplay in Star Citizen will be player-driven in the sandbox, but the Assault on Stanton event — and more specifically this week’s Star Citizen Live —...
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Chris Roberts checks in with word on Star Citizen alpha 3.15, server meshing...
“It was meant to be a five minute video,” remarks creative producer Jared Huckaby in the background of the final minutes of Star Citizen’s latest video. However, since this video features Chris...
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Star Citizen offers a rundown of new healing, injury, and death mechanics...
CIG has been talking up the proposed changes to how healing, injury, and death work in Star Citizen for a while, from Chris Roberts’ “Death of a Spaceman” vision, to plans and previews, all the way...
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Star Citizen posts scheduled times for this year’s CitizenCon panels
Tomorrow is the all-digital CitizenCon, and while fans of Star Citizen were already aware of the panels that are coming for the event and their overall content, what was missing was the start times for...
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Star Citizen financial report outlines over £1M in paid dividends to...
Since CIG is a UK company, the studio is required to share its fiscal filings, and so it has with the Star Citizen developer’s group financial report through December 2020, which has a number of...
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Star Citizen’s alpha 3.15 is live with new health and death mechanics plus...
CIG has been making a lot of noise about the “Death of a Spaceman” and the “vision” of Chris Roberts in bringing more consequences to injury and death in Star Citizen, and now it’s time to see if all...
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Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
Last year’s MMORPG predictions didn’t exactly go to plan, since in 2019, we weren’t really expecting 2020 to play out the way it did. But at the end of 2020, we actually did have a pretty good idea how...
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Star Citizen players come together to create a heartwarming Luminalia holiday...
From the outside looking in, one could perhaps assume Star Citizen’s Luminalia holiday is about Chris Roberts coming down your chimney, eating your wallet, and then leaving a JPEG of a cookie. A...
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One Shots: Sailing into the port of 2022
Twenty Twenty-Two ho! As we sail into unexplored territories, Rees Racer is kicking off a new year of One Shots with a farewell to the old. “I’ll leave 2021 with a holiday-themed shot from port in...
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Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are still years from launch, CIG confirms
It’s a source of endless frustration for backers and MMO players and a running joke in our own comments: Will Star Citizen ever release, and will we be too old to even play it when it does? Well, we...
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Vague Patch Notes: Stop giving rich people money to make failed MMOs
Richard Garriott has been to space. I’m going to repeat that a lot for emphasis, just because I feel like it’s important. Richard Garriott has been to space. He was a celebrity tourist going to space...
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Video essay explores why Star Citizen has taken so long to put together
Many people are wondering what is taking Star Citizen so long to come out of alpha, let alone a release state. With ten years in alpha and CIG’s own admission that its development will still take...
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Star Citizen boss rests feature delay blame on COVID, touts rise in new...
Chris Roberts has seen fit to peer down from his tower and issue his annual Letter from the Chairman, which looks back at the prior year’s pitfalls and advances for Star Citizen over the past several...
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Stick and Rudder: Some thoughts on Chris Roberts’ annual Star Citizen address
As many of our readers are familiar by now, Chris Roberts has put out his annual Letter from the Chairman for the Star Citizen faithful. As the length of the news post indicates, there was a lot of...
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Star Citizen QA tester is out of a job after pushing back against the...
“Today, I lost my job at Cloud Imperium Games for standing up for my fellow coworkers,” opens a LinkedIn post by a former employee for Star Citizen. Kiplan Case, a QA tester who worked at CIG’s Austin,...
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Star Citizen says persistence is on ‘a straight line to deployment’
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 a few items on the ground, log out on the surface of the...
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Star Citizen’s total crowdfunding just hit over half a billion dollars
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 total funding has just crested half a billion dollars to keep...
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Stick and Rudder: Everything we learned from Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2022...
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 it was interesting as CIG detailed what it called its “Road...
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Star Citizen heralds 2022 as a year of growth, touches on 3.18’s features and...
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 the current year, noting plenty of growth for the former and big...
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Star Citizen kitbashes a hovertank together and talks about vehicle creation...
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 minis and model figure circles to reference putting together...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs whose worlds were built from scratch
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 on some sort of previously established IP. That makes sense, as MMOs are inherently risky...
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CIG says Squadron 42 is ‘feature complete’ and entering polish phase in new...
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. A new gameplay trailer heralds that Squadron 42 is now “feature...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs as Saturday morning cartoons
My insane MMO and MMORPG thought experiments do indeed continue: Previously I considered what muffins MMO NPCs are, then I considered what flavor of gelatin games would be. Now I am being allowed –...
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Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts confirms development is moving to a full 1.0...
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 that Cloud Imperium Games was moving from alpha to launch. Those plans...
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Star Citizen’s 2022 financials offer additional information about investors...
When Star Citizen finally elected to post its 2022 financial report to the UK government (and in related reporting since), you might have seen some people in the comments shout, “CALDERS CALDERS...
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Star Citizen’s current development roadmap tentatively plots alpha 4.0 for...
Regular readers and followers of Star Citizen news know that CIG has been promising a “road to 4.0” in recent months — recall that it was the throughline for 2022’s CitizenCon and Chris Roberts alluded...
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Slayscape, the procedurally generated battle royale RPG from Shroud of the...
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 generated maps is being clapped together...
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Rumor: Star Citizen fans uncover a trademark filed by CIG for a potential...
The plot is either thickening or getting muddier depending on how one reads this latest bit of news uncovered by Star Citizen fans, as a couple of followers of the project have shared a trademark...
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Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and...
The news that Star Citizen studio CIG forced developers to give up two weekends in order to make CitizenCon happen – followed by a suspiciously timed internal email that gave employees an extra day off...
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Stick and Rudder: Star Citizen talks tools, gear, social features, and...
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 the sci-fi sandbox that’s been in a state of alpha development for 12...
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Star Citizen alpha 4.0 releases as a ‘preview’ version that runs parallel to...
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 delivered that goal: The new alpha build is indeed live, but as...
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MMO Hype Train: Why it’s hard to hold on to hope for Star Citizen
My very first PC was a 386 Pentium that I purchased with my own money in the early ’90s. And I dearly loved that machine, reveling in the wonders of Windows 3.1, configuring Autoexec.bat, and going on...
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Star Citizen’s alpha 4.0.1 is such a mess that CIG has cancelled the Red...
Last December, CIG head Chris Roberts stated an intention for alpha builds of Star Citizen would focus on “decoupling feature development from content creation and general fixes” in order to ultimately...
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