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…
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…
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…
Chris Roberts Returns to Gaming (special link here)
Those of you who are old enough to remember playing Wing Commander or Privateer or even Strike Commander will also remember the genius of game maker Chris Roberts. Well, Chris took a decade off from making games to make films and is now returning to the gaming industry. The project is so far untitled but you can sign up for what they are calling a “Golden Ticket” at Chris Roberts Space Industries Website. IN order to receive your Golden Ticket (which entitles you to special in-game items and access to community tools and polls) you need to hit the site…