Star Citizen free trial week blasts off

Space, man. Chris Roberts all the time wished you to enter area, man. (Intergalactic Christ.) That’s why the Wing Commander designer’s shiny new area sim Star Citizen has launched a free trial week, inviting one and all to poke round and kick the tyres, seeing what they’ve performed with six years of crowdfunding. These days, that features flying spaceships, working spacemissions, spacemining, pootling round a planet with a giant ol’ metropolis, and doing a bit first-person face-shooting. The trial will run till Friday the 30th, so that you’ve some time to obtain all of it.

The trial is accompanied by a ‘Free Fly Week‘, the place all the game’s spaceships can be found to strive on completely different days. So it’s additionally an up-sell alternative for them, getting you hankering for one of many mega-fancy mega-expensive ships.

Head on over to the download page to get going. The installer is 100MB, then you definitely’re 45GB-ish for all of the recordsdata. You might want to register an account, after all.

Still no agency phrase but on when Star Citizen or its singleplayer side-game Squadron 42 will launch. Developers Cloud Imperium Games have mentioned they plan to disclose the roadmap to launch in December.

Star Citizen’s crowdfunding money lately passed $200 million (£156m) and dang! They are delivering increasingly more of what they deliberate, although I’m undecided sufficient of it’s there but–or fascinating sufficient–to hook me. But you’ll be able to’t say they haven’t been busy.