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Star Citizen has now raised over $800m, with still no release in sight


Behold, your irregular Star Citizen funding update is here, with the news Cloud Imperium Games' controversial space sim…

Behold, your irregular Star Citizen funding update is here, with the news Cloud Imperium Games' controversial space sim has now raised over $800m - despite there still being no sign of a version 1.0 release date some 12 years after its original Kickstarter campaign. The space sim was originally targeting a 2014 launch, but sailed right past that (and just kept going) as Cloud Imperium Games' plans grew ever-more ambitious and the project fell into a vortex of feature creep. Watch on YouTube The closest Cloud Imperium has come to suggesting an end is in sight in recent times came last March when CEO Chris Roberts wrote that the "team [was] hard at work, heads down, driving towards the finish line."

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