Chris Roberts, lead dev on the Wing Commander Series and involved in severla other Space flight sims is working on a PC exclusive Space Sim with modern PC hardware in mind:
The plan is to have a persistent online world in a similar vein to Dark Souls, essentially existing around a sprawling single-player/Co-Op friendly campaign.
I’m dusting off the old joystick as we speak. though it might eb a bit premature as it isn’t due until 2014 
Looking mighty sweet though!
Name is: Star Citizen.
Oh, I’m sorry you guys must of not heard me.
WING COMMANDER creator makes new SPACE SIM!
I guess some of you guys might be having heart attacks right now, and that’s why you’re not replying, right?
Direct link to extended trailer on youtube: Star Citizen Extended Trailer - Squadron 42 [Cry Engine 3] - YouTube
I loved the original Privateer, but I was always more of a TIE Fighter kind of guy. I haven’t really played through any decent space combat sims in the last decade+. Nevertheless I shall check this out!
Oh, it turns out I’ve already signed up at this game’s site about a month ago at http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/ , and the new trailer looks very nice!
It’s a little strange that the devs won’t be putting the game up on kickstarter, but I’ll probably throw in $30 while I can still get the early adopter pledge reward.
Hmmm…too early to tell much about it, but I enjoyed the Wing Commander series, so this bears watching.
Big Wing Commader series fan ready and waiting. Although I doubt my ancient reflexes are up to this sort of thing any more.
The last thing Chris Roberts did that I’m aware of is the Wing Commander movie.
About which, the less said, the better.
Time will tell if he learned his lesson.
Sparks
So the Kickstarter/crowdfunding effort for Star Citizen is officially over.
Total raised: $6,226,891
According to these guys that also means they are getting another $20 million in private funding from investors.
So $26 million to make this awesome game.
What do you guys think? Doable?
Also mind = blown!
Watch as concept art gets turned automagically into an actual, real-time 3D scene which looks pretty much identical.
This is next gen folks.
nvm
No God darn it! You contribute to this thread right now, Mr!
This is what I thought of as well, but Wing Commander 3 and 4 were amazing…some of the few FMV games that rocked. Well, not FMV games, but games that incorporate FMV’s a bunch.
I’m curious, but not super excited.
WC3 and 4 were moderately entertaining movies, or at least, they would have been, had they not been continually interrupted by some truly terrible game-flavored sequences. Even there, the bulk of value came from Malcom McDowell’s entertaining scene-chewing 
Another skeptical person here. Everything Chris Roberts has touched since 1993 has had major issues, and the trading-space-action genre is pretty much mined out of ideas by now. I’m not sure what this one can bring of note.
Don’t forget the innuendo-laden conversations between Luke Skywalker and pornstar Ginger Lynn!
“I just hope the test pilot isn’t some priss who won’t let me touch his equipment.”
You know - I’ve kind of wanted to dabble in the trading-space-action genre, but I don’t know where to start. What do you recommend? Prefer realistic newtonian flight model over planes in space, if that’s an option.
don’t really get the fever for this game, but whatever. impressive kickstarter campaign.
Didn’t we have another thread in which I explained why I am watching but not contributing to this game?
I guess it all comes down to “Chris Roberts Made Wing Commander, which was awesome, and Wing Commander 2 which was pretty darn good, but pretty much everything else he’s done since then has been forgettable at best, and the larger the project, the more trouble it seemed to have.”
So yeah.