GamingShogunStar Citizen Hits 8 Million Dollars in Funding
AUSTIN, Texas, February 15, 2013 — Star Citizen™, the highly anticipated space sim from legendary game developer Chris Roberts, continues to set new records for a crowd funded game. Today Roberts’ company, Cloud Imperium Games™, announced that Star Citizen has reached the eight million dollar mark in money collected from backers. The latest total is more than $1.75 million beyond the amount raised when the original campaign (including Kickstarter) ended on November 19 of last year. As of midday on February 15, the funding campaign for Star Citizen had reached $8.08 million with more than 142,000 pledges. More than 3,400 new accounts have been created and…
Elite: Dangerous Makes Kickstarter Goal
3rd January 2012. Cambridge, UK: Frontier Developments (“Frontier”) is delighted that its Kickstartercampaign for the ‘Elite: Dangerous’ game has reached its funding target of £1.25M attracting over 21,000 backers. “Thank you to everyone who helped us reached that total – it’s incredibly heartening and uplifting to see so many people supporting Elite: Dangerous,” said David Braben, CEO of Frontier and co-author of the original Elite. “The help, feedback and ideas given and the enthusiasm shown has been remarkable, vividly illustrating the power of the community which is a force to be reckoned with in today’s connected society. This has made us even more determined…
Chris Roberts Return Game “Star Citizen” Announced
AUSTIN, Texas, October 10, 2012 — Chris Roberts, who helped define the space sim genre in computer games during the 1990s with his Wing Commander® and Privateer® franchises, is back in the cockpit again with a new title he says will change the way people perceive games for the PC and will breathe new life into space combat games. The new game, Star Citizen™, was officially announced today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) Online taking place at the Austin Convention Center. The game is being developed by Roberts’ Cloud Imperium™ Games studio, located in Los Angeles. Roberts’ re-entry into…
New Black Prophecy Episode 2 Screenshots
Reakktor Media and gamigo AG have released some new screenshots from the upcoming Episode 2 “Species War” content expansion to their online space actioner, Black Prophecy, which is due out early this month and adds numerous features to the PvP aspects of the game – including warzones. Screenshots
Black Prophecy Gets New Patch and Missions
Reakktor Media and gamigo AG have announced a new patch for their online space combat game, Black Prophecy. In addition to a multitude of enhancements and bug-fixes, the patch also adds a number of new missions for players to undertake. Black Prophecy is free-to-play and available now on the Windows PC platform. For more information on the game, please visit the official website. Official Patch Notes MISSIONS Following new missions were implemented: * “Cash for clunkers”, Comadrome, Level 7, Tyi * “Valuable freight”, Caldeena Tyi Hub, Level 34, Tyi * “Boosting morale”, Caldeena Tyi Hub, Level 35, Tyi *…