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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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