GamingShogunCloud Imperium Games Opens Santa Monica Office
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 23, 2013 — Cloud Imperium Games™, led by legendary game designer Chris Roberts, has opened an office in Santa Monica to help create Roberts’ new space sim game, Star Citizen™. The game marks Roberts’ return to the gaming industry and has garnered headlines in the last six months by bringing in more money via crowd funding than any other game to date. Cloud Imperium has raised more than $8.6 million since October of 2012 for the development of Star Citizen. Roberts is best known for creating the hugely popular Wing Commander line of games in the 1990s. Those games sold millions of…
Star 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…
Star Citizen Shatters Crowd Funding Record
AUSTIN, Texas, November 19, 2012 — Star Citizen™, the highly anticipated space sim from legendary game developer, Chris Roberts, today set a new record for a crowd funded game as pledge totals reached $6.23 million and the game’s Kickstarter campaign came to a close. Star Citizen is currently under development by Roberts’ new game company, Cloud Imperium™, which has offices in Los Angeles; Austin, Texas and Montreal, Canada. An early alpha play test for backers of the project should be available next winter. The previous crowd funding record for a game had been held by Obsidian Entertainment’s Project Eternity title. An October 17 posting on the Project Eternity…
Star Citizen Last Push for Crowd Funding and Video
Chris Roberts is making his final push for crowd funding of his upcoming Star Citizen – his return to space combat gaming. The game has already raised over $3 million dollars and looks to be doing very well. There are only six days left in the crowd funding program on Kickstarter and on the Roberts Space Industries site. Let’s help make this awesome game possible. In celebration of this final push, Roberts Space Industries has released a cool new video of player wingmen obeying formation commands and a tongue-in-cheek video of Roberts himself addressing the fans. Check it out! Videos
Star Citizen Blasts Through KickStarter Goal
Los Angeles, October 24, 2012— Legendary game developer Chris Roberts and his newly formed company, Cloud Imperium, announced today that the company has raised more than $540,000 in pledges on Kickstarter for their new space combat game, Star Citizen, currently in development. The Kickstarter campaign, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen, launched on October 18 with a stated goal of raising $500,000 in pledges. The goal was reached overnight on October 23, in five and a half days. Currently on Kickstarter there are 12,000 backers of the project which signals the return to gaming for Roberts after a decade long hiatus as a Hollywood filmmaker. Roberts made his…
Star Citizen Moves to Kickstarter Needs Your Help
LOS ANGELES, October 18, 2012 — Last week’s high profile announcement of Chris Roberts’ return to gaming and his highly anticipated PC space sim game, Star Citizen™, caused such a rush of support, the servers at www.robertsspaceindustries.com (the Star Citizen site) that hosted the game’s independently maintained crowd funding program simply collapsed leaving thousands of would-be pledgers and supporters on the outside looking in for days. Today, the legendary game designer announced a solution to that problem. Roberts and his newly formed company, Cloud Imperium™, launched a Kickstarter campaign, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cig/star-citizen, which will provide a stable and scalable crowd funding platform in addition to the custom one hosted…
Star Citizen Website Back Online
In all the fervor over Chris Roberts Star Citizen announcement the other day, their website was so overloaded with traffic that it had to be taken offline. Here is a letter from Ben Lesnick, Community Manager of Cloud Imperium Games, announcing the website’s return. Official Letter What a long, strange trip it has been! I’m very pleased to announce that the Roberts Space Industries website is coming back online as originally intended. Thanks to the heroic efforts of our web team, you can now pledge as originally intended as well as access your account information and view the real time…
A Letter from Chris Roberts on Star Citizen Announcement
Here is a letter from Chris Roberts, creator of the Wing Commander franchise and the upcoming Star Citizen: When I said I missed old school difficulty to gaming you probably didn’t think that I would make the pledge process more difficult than fighting the toughest boss monster in Demon’s Souls! Well neither did I! Wednesday morning we set out to prove that PC gaming and Space Sims are not dead… and prove it, we did! We’re absolutely floored by the attention and humbled by your comments. We hoped everyone would be excited about the big idea behind Star Citizen and…
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…