Star Citizen

Star Citizen, the in-development space simulator from Cloud Imperium Games, has launched its first free-to-play “Free Fly” event of 2024, giving players the chance to try the game out without spending a penny. 

The open-world space RPG genre has found itself in the spotlight thanks to 's massive popularity. The Bethesda title has been likened to a game in space, and being from such a big name developer and the marketing push that it has had makes it easy to overlook other amazing games of a similar style that came before it. While has many unique characteristics that make it stand out, there are also lots of other games set in space that offer hours of enjoyment, each with its own distinctive qualities that could set itself up as a new favorite.

Entering development all the way back in 2010 before being officially announced a couple years later, Cloud Imperium Games’ massive space-faring MMO Star Citizen has been one of gaming’s most curious stories for years. Development on the title has dragged on for what has felt like an eternity, and though it has been playable in varying stages of alpha for a long time now, with the project continuing to rack up mind-boggling amounts of crowdfunding (currently standing at roughly $670 million), it has continued to look like a game that’s never going to actually release.

Star Citizen is pushing towards the «finish line».

Yes, it happened - Chris Roberts, the man behind the unique gaming phenomenon called Star Citizen, has mentioned version 1.0 in his latest 'Letter from the Chairman' blog post.

With the Star Citizen Alpha 3.23 update very close to launching, Cloud Imperium Games has shared a new video that's all about the upcoming improvements to first-person combat in the game.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is the latest games company to cut staff, confirming “a small number of positions were eliminated” as part of a relocation plan some former employees have criticized. CIG failed to specify the number of staff affected.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games reportedly laid off some of its employees last month. Apart from these layoffs, which were allegedly excused as “staff relocation” at first, the Star Citizen developer is being accused of providing a toxic workplace environment.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has suffered layoffs amid unrest due to relocation and accusations of a «highly toxic company», reports suggest.

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Developers who have worked on the likes of Horizon: Zero Dawn, Doom Eternal, The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect have founded a brand new studio called Fun Dog Studios.

Star Citizen's latest DLC pack costs almost £46,000 (€53K /$58K).

Seemingly not content with having raised over $650 million for a game in development for over a decade without a full release date in sight, Star Citizen is now offering a new way for those with too much money to spend it: a bundle of digital ships costing £46,000.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games is releasing a ship bundle for its controversial space simulator that costs an eye-watering $48,000.

Developer Cloud Imperium Games has released a new ship pack for Star Citizen. As spotted by TweakTown, the ship pack, dubbed Legatus 2953, is one of the most expensive packs available to purchase in the game, and is priced at $48,000.

Ever since it first warped onto the scene, Star Citizen has been infamous for its rapacious monetisation. The game's development seems never-ending but, long before you could play it in any form, Roberts Space Industries would sell you all sorts of space-things: Like this mine-laying ship that cost over $600 before mine-laying was even a feature in the game.

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Star Citizen has a spaceship bundle which - somehow - costs $48,000.

Star Citizen’s latest in-game ship package, Legatus, will cost as much as buying a brand-new car in 2023. Though the game is known to have overtly expensive ship packs and content bundles, this latest bundle takes the cake in terms of price tag. 

Today, Cloud Imperium Games released Alpha update 3.22 (dubbed 'Wrecks to Riches') for Star Citizen. This is the fourth major update launched this year for the slowly but surely growing MMO space simulation game.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games showed off the game's underlying StarEngine technology with a new video of 24 and a half minutes. Boldly titled 'The Future of Gaming, ' the flyover video demonstrates the impressive visuals powered by the StarEngine. It all becomes even more remarkable when considering that it renders an open galaxy game that should host over a hundred star systems (when the final game is complete, according to the developer's original goal) in a completely seamless capacity.

There's a quote about early computer animation, which I can't track down now, that before Pixar came along everyone was using it to swoop cameras through outerspace and up a gnat's ass. Or perhaps it was a fly's butt?

Star Citizen kicks off another Intergalactic Aerospace Expo event today, with free flight for more than 130 vehicles, new reveals, an expanded show floor, and more to explore.

Developer Cloud Imperium Games has announced that its sci-fi space-based game Star Citizen will be available to play for free for almost two weeks as part of the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo 2953. As part of the event, players can sign up for an account on the game’s official website and simply download the title and play.

Star Citizen's single-player campaign, Squadron 42, is now «feature complete,» according to Cloud Imperium Games' Chris Roberts in a video released over the weekend at CitizenCon.

The massively popular, long-in-development, and often controversial space sim Star Citizen was always supposed to be accompanied by a single-player, story-focused spin-off called Squadron 42. Now, 11 years after the announcement of both projects, Squadron 42 is finally "feature complete," and developer Cloud Imperium Games has detailed what you can expect with a 26-minute-long new trailer.

Star Citizen's standalone single-player campaign Squadron 42 is now «feature complete», developer Cloud Imperium Games has said.

The developers of the highly-anticipated single-player sci-fi game, Squadron 42, just announced that this upcoming title is now feature-complete. 

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) has said the campaign portion of its controversial space sim is finally “feature complete”, over a decade after it was announced.

In a stunning new announcement, Chris Roberts has revealed that the single player component of Star Citizen, Squadron 42, is now feature complete.

This year's CitizenCon was a two-day event and apparently the biggest show Cloud Imperium Games has put on for its cautionary tale about scope creep in MMO form. It wasn't all engine demos and new ships for Star Citizen, however, with Cloud Imperium's singleplayer game, Squadron 42, finally ready to be shown again.

T his weekend, Star Citizen’ s CitizenCon 2953 will be back as an-person event at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Since this is the first time in several years that the con is being held in person, Cloud Imperium Games is making the event’s return a big one.

The Star Citizen alpha updates continue, adn this time we’re up to alpha 3.21 with the release of a new patch dubbed Mission Ready.

Star Citizen has just released Alpha 3.20, “Fully Loaded”. It's a big update, with new content, new maps, new ships, and top to bottom Arena Commander overhaul, complete with new content.

Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to the Alpha 3.20 stage.

Star Citizen, the massive multiplayer space simulation title, continues to march through a very long development cycle. The game’s most recent patch, Alpha 3.20, adds new PvP modes, maps, race tracks, missions, ships, and more. The patch also overhauls the Arena Commander module, which is a game inside Star Citizen that allows players to get to the meat of a spaceship battle without having to set up their own ship and prepare for a trek.

Star Citizen is an exciting space game that places players amid the stars where they can experience immersive combat, trading, and more. Cloud Imperium hopes to offer interstellar adventures like no other online game has with Star Citizen‘s full release, and has been working to frequently update the alpha build for fans currently traversing the stars. The developer has just announced the massive upcoming Alpha 3.20 update, revealing that the patch will bring full HDR support to the game.

As Star Citizen continues its long journey toward a full launch, eventually, the developer has changed how its going to be handling its public test universe moving forward.