Behold, your irregular Star Citizen funding replace is right here, with the information Cloud Imperium Video games’ controversial area sim has now raised over $800m – regardless of there nonetheless being no trace of a model 1.0 launch date some 12 years after its unique Kickstarter marketing campaign.
Star Citizen’s earlier main milestone arrived final Could, when Cloud Imperium’s funding tracker – which aggregates cash raised from likes of paid alpha entry and people eye-wateringly costly ship packs – ticked over the $700m mark. That does, in fact, imply the sport – so far as it may possibly at the moment be described as such – has raised an extra $100m in simply 11 months.
All this and there is nonetheless no signal of a 1.0 launch date for Star Citizen, though its paid public alpha continues to evolve with common updates. The area sim, you may recall, was initially concentrating on a 2014 launch, however sailed proper previous that (and simply saved going) as Cloud Imperium Video games’ plans grew ever-more formidable and the mission fell right into a vortex of characteristic creep.
The closest Cloud Imperium has come to suggesting an finish is in sight in current occasions got here final March when CEO Chris Roberts wrote that the “staff [was] laborious at work, heads down, driving in the direction of the end line.” However whereas the massively multiplayer, persistent universe portion of Star Citizen is probably nonetheless some important manner off, its story pushed, single-player spin-off – often known as Squadron 42 – is supposedly a lot nearer on the horizon.
Cloud Imperium final yr stated it was concentrating on a 2026 launch for Squadron 42, whose star-studded forged contains the likes of Gary Oldan, Mark Hamill, Gillian Anderson, and Andy Serkis. However given the variety of occasions the mission has already slipped again (it was described as “characteristic full” in 2023), it stays to be seen whether or not that 2026 launch window holds true.
