Tagged: chris roberts

August 2, 2013 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

When we last reported on crowdfunding video game Star Citizen it stood at $14 Million.  This was back in early July.  The ongoing crowdfunding voyage now stands at over $15 Million supported by over 221,000 “Star Citizens”. For those who have not been following the… Read More

July 7, 2013 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Video game Star Citizen, created by Chris Roberts and his Roberts Space Industries (RSI), is ready to surpass $14 Million raised.  This crowdfunding campaign has the potential to be the single largest campaign ever and already stands in the top crowdfunding campaings to take place… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 4:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: Funding successful! The documentary was fully funded overnight and the project is a go. Kickstarted, the Kickstarter documentary crowdfunding on Kickstarter, is teetering on the edge of missing a funding goal with less than 24 hours left in the campaign. We first reported on… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Polygon  |  

Chris Roberts is feeling good. He has persuaded over 150,000 people to kick-in $10 million for a product that doesn’t exist and won’t be completed until the end of 2014. But it’s not the pile of cash that’s lighting him up, not even the opportunity… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 8:04 am By The Escapist  |  

Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen Kickstarter has raised over $8 million, and fans continue to jump in, despite the game being over a year away from release. “I can make the same game for a fifth of the revenue [of a AAA title], a fifth of… Read More

February 13, 2013 @ 7:01 pm By Dean Takahashi  |  

Chris Roberts is under a lot of pressure to get Star Citizen right. The new massively multiplayer online sci-fi title from the creator of the legendary Wing Commander sci-fi spaceship combat games raised $7.7 million via crowdfunding on the promise of bringing back the glory days of science fiction combat simulations in… Read More

December 15, 2012 @ 4:27 am By Statesmen.com  |  

A few years ago, Chris Roberts felt the itch to return to his old stomping grounds – making video games. The veteran Austin designer responsible for the iconic “Wing Commander” franchise had been making movies for most of the past decade. Meanwhile, the gaming universe… Read More