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Star Citizen – Hangar Module Showcased

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Cloud Imperium has released the Hangar Module for its upcoming space game, Star Citizen. The Hangar Module is a standalone release that reveals where players will store their ships and collected items. Currently, there are three types of hangars. The size of your hangar is determined by the largest ship in players’ collection, and players will be able to upgrade it while playing the game. Continue reading Star Citizen – Hangar Module Showcased

Star Citizen – New In-Engine Footage Revealed

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RSI and Cloud Imperium have released a new video featuring in-engine footage from their upcoming space combat title, Star Citizen, showcasing one of the new spaceships that will be featured in it. Star Citizen is powered by CryEngine 3 and looks spectacular. Although there isn’t any release date yet, the game will be entering its alpha phase in Q4 2013. Special thanks to our reader ‘Ghost Rider LSOV’ for informing us. Enjoy! Continue reading Star Citizen – New In-Engine Footage Revealed

Holy Batman, Star Citizen Breaks Every Crowd-Funding Game Record & Hits Its $6 Million Dream Goal

Now this is bloody amazing. Star Citizen’s crowd-funding campaign has ended and managed to surpass its dream goal, as it has raised well over six million dollars. Yeap, that’s SIX MILLION DOLLARS. You know, this sounds like Konami’s memorable E3 line “one million trooooooooops”. But whatever, we are excited so we don’t mind that. And in case you did not get it, it’s six million dollaaaaaaaaars. Continue reading Holy Batman, Star Citizen Breaks Every Crowd-Funding Game Record & Hits Its $6 Million Dream Goal

The final hours of Star Citizen’s crowd-funding campaign initiated

Star Citizen’s crowd-funding campaign is nearing its end, therefore, Chris Roberts and his team decided to push it a little bit more and announce a new stretch goal. After all, they are currently well over $4 million and they’ve already set the record for crowd-funding games. Continue reading The final hours of Star Citizen’s crowd-funding campaign initiated

Star Citizen Footage Showcases Pilot AI, 24 Months Away From Release

Cloud Imperium has released a new gameplay video for its upcoming space combat game, Star Citizen, that showcases the pilot AI in its early stages. Before jumping around like little kids, know that the following footage isn’t as polished as the team would normally put out. After all, Star Citizen is planned for a 2014 release, meaning that what you’re about to see does not represent the quality of the final product.  Continue reading Star Citizen Footage Showcases Pilot AI, 24 Months Away From Release

Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts: Current top-end PCs are more powerful than next-gen consoles

A lot of gamers are anxiously waiting for the next-generation consoles, but did you know that current high-end PCs might be more powerful than both X720 and PS4. Of course you did, as this is something we’ve covered in the past. High-end PCs are currently way ahead of anything you can imagine, and let’s not forget that by the time X720 and PS4 hits streets, Nvidia and AMD will have unleashed even more powerful GPUs. Continue reading Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts: Current top-end PCs are more powerful than next-gen consoles

Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen hits its Kickstarter goal of $500K in five days, new details unveiled

Good news for all PC space fans, as Cris Roberts’ Star Citizen has hit its Kickstarter goal and managed to raise $500K in five days. What this obviously means is that the game will be funded, and there are 26 days left for this Kickstarter campaign. Star Citizen is a PC exclusive space combat game that – according to Chris Roberts himself – is the vision he had for Freelancer (but in a different universe with a more realistic gritty tone). Continue reading Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen hits its Kickstarter goal of $500K in five days, new details unveiled

Star Citizen – Kickstarter Campaign Launched

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 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. Continue reading Star Citizen – Kickstarter Campaign Launched

New Star Citizen Details; No monthly fee, estimated system requirements, full mod support

Wing Commander creator, Chris Roberts, and Cloud Imperium have unveiled some new details about their upcoming PC exclusive space combat game, Star Citizen. According to Roberts, Star Citizen will fully support mods, as players will be able and encouraged to mod the game when operating private servers. Cloud Imperium is also considering implementing a mod approval feature that will allow ‘the best of the best player created ships and other additions to be integrated into the central persistent world as well.’ Continue reading New Star Citizen Details; No monthly fee, estimated system requirements, full mod support

Star Citizen’s website crashed due to high demand, 4564 backers pledged $455,590 so far

Well, it was to be expected. A new PC exclusive space game from Chris Roberts that was accompanied with screenshots and an extended trailer, showcasing what the team could achieve with CryEngine 3? Who wouldn’t want to find out more about it? And as  you may have expected, the official website of Star Citizen was crashed due to its high demand. Continue reading Star Citizen’s website crashed due to high demand, 4564 backers pledged $455,590 so far