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Articles August 16, 2026, 04:00 PMStar Citizen has raised over $1 billion over the past 14 years—and still hasn’t been released. How crowdfunding has grown, where the money went, and whether it’s a scam or a brilliant project. An analysis by VGTimes.
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Gaming News August 8, 2026, 02:35 PMCloud Imperium Games opened its latest Star Citizen broadcast with an updated look at Siege of Orison, but the livestream quickly turned into a stress test of the event's technical state. The demo, presented as a closer look at the first-person PvE content, drew criticism when viewers saw rough frame rates, broken AI, and desync in a project that has already spent 14 years in development and raised more than $1 billion.
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Gaming News June 21, 2026, 08:52 PMSquadron 42, the long-awaited story-driven campaign set in the Star Citizen universe, will finally be available for hands-on play by press and bloggers at a special event in Manchester from October 9 to 11, 2026. This marks the first time the public will get to experience a playable demo, representing a significant milestone for the project after years of anticipation.
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Star Citizen Developer Suffered a Data Breach Six Weeks Ago — Players Aren’t Happy About How (and When) They Found Out
Gaming News March 4, 2026, 02:54 AMCloud Imperium Games, the studio behind Star Citizen, has confirmed that it was the target of a cyberattack on January 21, 2026. According to the company, attackers gained unauthorized access to part of its backup systems, including a limited amount of user personal data. -
Long-Running Star Citizen Nears $1 Billion in Crowdfunding — A Wild $153 Million Raised in 2025 Alone
Gaming News December 26, 2025, 12:54 AMThe space sim Star Citizen is on track to set one of the most absurd records in industry history. At its current pace, the game is expected to surpass $1 billion in player funding in 2026, despite still lacking a full release — and without any firm confidence around the launch window for its single-player campaign. -
Gaming News December 23, 2025, 10:04 PMThe developers at Cloud Imperium Games have announced that Squadron 42, the single-player campaign for Star Citizen, is now fully playable from start to finish and offers over 40 hours of gameplay. The release is still slated for 2026.
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Gaming News November 17, 2025, 08:09 AMIt looks like Star Citizen’s journey toward a full release will remain a long one. Thirteen years have passed since the original announcement, the project is still in its alpha phase, and the amount of funding continues to climb, now nearing a staggering $900 million.
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Gaming News September 13, 2025, 01:54 PMSome things never change — the developers of the record-breaking costly space simulator Star Citizen have once again raised concerns about the game’s release. This time, Cloud Imperium Games admitted they’re not certain that the single-player campaign Squadron 42 will launch in 2026.
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Gaming News August 21, 2025, 06:18 AMTake-Two has laid off about a third of the staff at Cloud Chamber, the studio developing the next BioShock game. The cuts affected over 80 of the roughly 250 employees. As a result, the game—which was previously slated for a late 2026 or early 2027 release—has now been delayed indefinitely, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.
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Gaming News April 10, 2025, 02:36 PMAn astronomical sum for a space life simulator — the creators of Star Citizen have raised over $802 million for the development of the game. Let us recall that the crowdfunding campaign started back in 2012, but the project is still in the alpha stage.
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Gaming News November 29, 2024, 03:09 PMAs Insider Gaming writes, the studio that developed the long-term project Star Citizen is not doing well again. According to some reports, Cloud Imperium Games fired some of its employees without compensation after overtime.
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Gaming News October 20, 2024, 11:12 AMThe developers of the ambitious long-term project Star Citizen have finally announced the release date of the single-player story mode Squadron 42. The announcement took place during the next Citizencon — although not without some unfortunate incidents.
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