Star Citizen

The Star Citizen site has been updated with both a comprehensive blog post and updated patch notes for Alpha 2.4, which is now available for qualified players. The latest version of the game brings a significant number of improvements and features into the game, including the first iteration of persistence in the game world.

The latest edition of the Star Citizen 'Around the Verse' series has been released. In this episode, the team speaks to Character Artist Cheyne Hessler, takes a look back at 2013's Galaxy Map Tests, spotlights a community videographer and takes a look at the upcoming Aegis Javelin Destroyer.

Star Citizen fans who are interested in learning more about the MISC Prospector, a mining vessel, will want to head to the official site to check out an internal Q&A. The MISC Prospector is sold in the shop for $140 and is considered ideal for those who want to be less-than conspicuous about their mining activities.

In the latest 10 For the Chairmain, Star Citizen's Chris Roberts revealed that "some of the latest stretch goals" will not be included in the initial commercial release, something he called the "minimal viable product". The team will be including the missing stretch goal items and features into the game at a later point.

Andy Serkis, actor of note from Gollum in Lord of the Rings to Caesar in Planet of the Apes, has a role in Star Citizen's Squadron 42. Serkis took part in a recent motion capture event at The Imaginarium that was caught on film. Check out the video below to see how it all went down!

Players looking to try out Star Citizen will have an opportunity to do so thanks to the next week's Free Fly Event. During the special promotion those taking part will have access to all currently available ships, the Arena Commander module and the recently implemented social module.

The Star Citizen site has been updated with a new FAQ to clear up some of the confusion that last week's announcement caused with regard to the separation between Star Citizen, the persistent world, and Squadron 42, the single-player campaign.

Fans who are interested in learning more about Star Citizen have been invited to try out the game for free this week. Potential players are required to create an account on Star Citizen site and will be able to check out Star Citizen 2.1.2, Arena Commander and the Social Module.

Gillian Anderson has a role in Star Citizen: Squadron 42 as Captain McLaren. Last summer, Anderson traveled to London's Imaginarium Studios for some motion capture acting to prepare her character's role. Check it out for some fascinating footage of a work in progress. It's quite cool!

The Star Citizen site has been updated with a look at the latest version of the alpha. The latest alpha client features new ships, a few put on sale in celebration of v2.1, a new weapon and a more streamlined bug reporting system.

Roberts Space Industry has sent out a brand new holiday gift for fans in the form of a Star Citizen trailer showing procedurally generated planet systems. It's a gorgeous video shot 100% in-engine with some pretty cool explanations of what is being shown. Check it out and leave us your thoughts in the comments.

Star Citizen has entered its next major phase of development with the arrival of Alpha 2.0. Now live, Alpha 2.0 brings space combat, FPS and multi-crew ships into the game simultaneously for the first time.

During last night's Game Awards, Chris Roberts and Mark Hamill took center stage to present a brand new official trailer from Star Citizen Alpha 2.0. Hamill is one of the primary stars of the Squadron 42 portion of Star Citizen and co-presented an award with Chris Roberts. The video spotlights some of the in-game motion-capture footage recently completed by RSI.

The latest Star Citizen Weekly Development Update has been posted to the game's official site with the exciting news that 50,000 more 'Citizens' will soon be added to Alpha 2.0 to continue to assist the team with bug squashing and to, as the letter states, take part in "emergent gameplay" as evidenced on YouTube and Twitch.

As part of a live stream event earlier today, Chris Roberts announced that the v2.0 beta for Star Citizen first person shooter module will be entering its first phase of beta testing with invites going out over the next several weeks.