Star Citizen Has Raised $1 Billion, Remains In Early Access After Nine Years
Single-player spin-off Squadron 42 is "in the closing stages" but doesn't have a release date either.
Cloud Imperium Games
Amid suggestions that Rockstar Games is spending as much as around $1.5 billion on the development of Grand Theft Auto VI — which would mean it's the most expensive video game ever made — there's at least one other game confirmed to have reached 10 figures in funding. Star Citizen has now raked in over $1 billion in funding from more than 6.5 million people.
Star Citizen first emerged in 2012 with a Kickstarter campaign that had a relatively modest target of $500,000. Developer Cloud Imperium Games smashed that goal as backers ponied up over $2.1 million (a separate campaign at the time pulled in $4.1 million). The project went on to snag a crowdfunding world record in 2014 after topping $55 million in funding.
By the time Star Citizen...
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