There is no doubt that Star Citizen is the most successfully crowd-funded game of all time. Cloud Imperium has been constantly breaking records and the team has just hit its $140 million milestone. Continue reading Star Citizen’s crowdfunding has reached $141 million →

Yesterday, we informed you about Cloud Imperium’s decision to ditch CRYENGINE in favour of Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine. And today, Cloud Imperium’s Chris Roberts explained why the team decided to switch engines. Continue reading Chris Roberts explains why Star Citizen & Squadron 42 will be now powered by the Lumberyard Engine →

Cloud Imperium Games announced today the company is using the Amazon Lumberyard game engine to create its ground-breaking space sim games, Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Both games are currently in development and are backed by a record-breaking $139 million crowd funded effort. Continue reading Star Citizen & Squadron 42 ditch CRYENGINE over Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine →

During CitizenCon 2016, Cloud Imperium revealed some new information about Squadron 42; the single-player mode of Star Citizen. According to the team, Squadron 42 will feature 28 chapters that will be equivalent to 60+ missions. Continue reading Squadron 42 gets new details, delayed to 2017 – Star Citizen 3.0 showcased and looks beautiful →

Star Citizen – and its SP counterpart, Squadron 42 – has been in development for five years. The game is powered by CRYENGINE and is among the most ambitious projects we’ve ever seen. However, the game appears to be nowhere near to completion. Not only that, but Cloud Imperium had to rewrite entire whole sections of the engine so that it could support the specific needs of Star Citizen. Still, Chris Roberts defended CRYENGINE, claiming that these changes had to be made, and that things would not have been better if the team chose Unreal Engine 4 or Unity. Continue reading Cloud Imperium’s Chris Roberts defends CRYENGINE: “I don’t look back and say ‘I wish I’d gone with Unreal’.” →