Tag: star citizen

Squadron 42, Star Citizen’s single-player campaign, beta has been delayed by 12 weeks

Posted on: August 31, 2019 /

Categories: General Gaming News

A bit of bad news this weekend for Star Citizen fans, as Cloud Imperium games has announced that the beta phase for Squadron 42 is delayed for some time. The last time we covered the ambitious and cinematic singleplayer component of the online game, it was only a few months away from its next development

[UPDATE] Star Citizen backer FAKES massive $45,000 refund

Posted on: September 14, 2017 /

Categories: General Gaming News, Star Citizen

UPDATE: The refund is faked according to a statement by CIG. Cloud Imperium spokesperson Dave Swofford tells Ars that “a lot of the information was fabricated” in the Reddit post. Swofford says the account in question was issued an individual refund of $330, not the $45,000 claimed in posted screenshots and videos which Swofford says

Star Citizen: Around the Verse – Outposts and Environmental Storytelling

Posted on: August 21, 2017 /

Categories: General Gaming News, Star Citizen

Chris Roberts’ Cloud Imperium Games released a new video of its upcoming space simulator Star Citizen. The newest video in the “Around the Verse” series showcases different types of planetary structures, landmarks and environments found on planetary bodies. Players will be able to freely fly in and out of the atmosphere and land on celestial

Star Citizen 2.1.2 patch notes released – New Players play free for the next week

Posted on: January 31, 2016 /

Categories: Star Citizen

Cloud Imperium has just released the Star Citizen 2.1.2 alpha and are giving everyone the chance to tray it out for the next week. Even with the recent announcement of the folding of previously standalone Star Marine directly into the PU of Star Citizen; there is still quite a bit to look forward to, and

Mark Hamill to star in Squadron 42 and other CitizenCon 2015 news

Posted on: October 11, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

During today’s CitizenCon, Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen team unveiled the all-star cast of Squadron 42, the single player portion of the game. Fans will recognize such luminaries as Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davies. In addition, a new Squadron 42 site has been unveiled to give potential players much more

CIG Responds to The Escapist with Legal Demands

Posted on: October 5, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

The ever-evolving saga of drama between Cloud Imperium and it’s critics has developed to a new height. CIG published an extensive legal demand letter to Defy Media, the parent company of The Escapist. In said letter they challenged the legitimacy of several claims within The Escapist’s recent article about Star Citizen. The letter makes several

Star Citizen team sees multiple departures [UPDATE]

Posted on: September 25, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

As of this weekend, at least six people have either left or been fired from Cloud Imperium Games. Many of these have since been confirmed by LinkedIn employment history changes of various now-former employees and various tweets. As usual with developments like these, people are speculating as to the motives for these changes across the

Derek Smart gets response from RSI over legal action and other drama

Posted on: September 4, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

After Derek Smart leveled legal threats at RSI over the funding drama involving Star Citizen, RSI has responded. For a quick summary, A letter was sent to RSI which demanded forensic accounting of the Star Citizen project along with a completion date and refunds for backers unhappy with the progress of development. The response from the

Derek Smart assembles legal team, threatens class-action suit against RSI

Posted on: August 24, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

In the latest salvo fired across the bow of the Roberts Space Industries’ ship, Derek Smart has hired the legal firm of De La Pena & Holiday LLP that has sent a letter demanding, among other things, immediate refunds to all parties requesting them regardless of Terms of Service restriction, a forensic accounting of the

Star Citizen’s FPS development moves in-house

Posted on: August 18, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

With the pressure against Cloud Imperium Games mounting, and in what seems to be a cost-saving measure, they’ve moved development of the Star Marine FPS module in-house. The effort was previously handled by contracted developer Illfonic. As expected, Illfonic announced that they would undergo a “slimming down” that involves laying off staff and reassigning remaining

Star Citizen at Gamescom 2015: Full Video

Posted on: August 8, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

This year at Gamescom, RSI brought out an impressive albeit buggy presentation of Star Citizen and it’s various in-development features. Everything from an obviously rushed cosplay contest to details of new modules for the expansive space simulation were shown off this year. The actual presentation began with a detailing of various release schedules for

Cloud Imperium answers fans on Derek Smart decision

Posted on: July 17, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

German Twitch channel Crash_Academy managed to pin down Cloud Imperium’s Ben Lesnick to discuss the current state of Star Citizen. After the events of the past week regarding refunds, the host managed to get a few answers to some pressing questions about the funding and the state of the game. On the subject of crowd funding

Drama between CIG and Derek Smart over Star Citizen transparency continues – results in unrequested refund

Posted on: July 15, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

Derek Smart has been a vocal critic of CIG for the last few weeks, and has made it well known that he wants the project to succeed, but has serious doubts about the financial management of the game. In a lengthy post on his blog about what he feels is the proper course of action,

ComicCon brings more Star Citizen info – New Arena Commander after GamesCom

Posted on: July 14, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

ComicCon this week saw lots of gaming news take center stage. Among those tidbits were various new updates and announcements for CIG and Star Citizen. A panel session for the game detailed things both new and old for fans. Details were focused on the upcoming GamesCom conference, where CIG plan to show off several new

CIG publish community update on Star Marine FPS Module

Posted on: July 12, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

Despite some early reports that Star Citizen’s Star Marine FPS module has been canceled, the project is ongoing. In a CIG community forum post a few days ago, several new updates and changes have been announced. Among these is a new launcher version, the return of the cover system, and a series of fixes for

Star Citizen FPS Module “Star Marine” Delay Response

Posted on: July 1, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

The delays and issues for Cloud Imperium and Chris Roberts seem to be pilling on these last few weeks. Chris Roberts has been busy working on motion capture for the Squadron 42 single player portion of Star Citizen and it sounds like it’s going well, but it’s not good news for backers who were looking forward to

48GB of Star Citizen assets leaked

Posted on: May 25, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

Star Citizen has seen a sizable leak of unreleased resources to a few members of the public, after a community manager posted a partial URL in a screenshot. Someone guessed the rest, and the rest is now history. Around 48GB of work in progress assets have been acquired by — at least — a couple of

New Modular Hulls For Star Citizen Released

Posted on: April 26, 2015 /

Categories: Star Citizen

Fulfilling it’s $65 Million stretch goal, a set of modular ship hulls are now on sale for Star Citizen. The MISC class hulls A through E cover a variety of roles and price points for players of Cloud Imperium Games’ Star Citizen. The MISC Hull series, ranges from the creatively-named and diminutive Hull A up