For shits & giggles, read these old Star Citizen threads (they’re short) that showed up in the “related” tab. Full of innocence, hope and wild-eyed expectations.
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
It’s a crowd-funded game being created by Chris Roberts, the man who gave us Wing Commander and Freelancer. It will be a PC-based space sim, and eventually will have ship-to-ship combat, interstallar commerce, a FPS option, multiplayer, PVP, all that good stuff.
Right now it seems to be a little lean, as they’re mostly in alpha and only opened the beta testing for the ship-to-ship combat a couple weeks ago.
That link’s not working for me from work, probably because it’s a gaming site, so it …
And it’s Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame at the helm!