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Star Citizen Switches Game Engine
Cloud Imperium announced yesterday that their upcoming game Star Citizen and the single-player campaign Squadron 42 will now use Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine. Initially, the game had started its development on the CryEngine. “We’ve been working with Amazon for more than a year, as we have been looking for a technology leader to partner with for the long term future of Star Citizen and Squadron 42,” creative director Chris Roberts said. “Lumberyard provides ground breaking technology features for online games, including deep back-end cloud integration on AWS and its social component with Twitch that enables us to easily and instantly connect to millions of global gamers. “Because we share a common technical vision, it has been a very smooth and easy tr...
Star Citizen Shows Off Procedural Planets V2 Demo At CitizenCon 2016
Star Citizen, the uber hyped upcoming space simulation title from Cloud Imperium Games has gotten a fresh new demo for CitizenCon 2016. Titled as Procedural Planets V2, the video shows a mission answering a distress beacon from a planet’s surface. As a sandstorm rolls in, you find a surprise lurking for you in the dunes, demonstrating the perils and the environment of the planet, along with the kind of weather systems that Cloud Imperium is planning to implement in the game. According to Chris Roberts, the demo is realtime and live in-game engine, and indeed one of the best videos we have seen about the game yet, in terms of both scale and content. For more news and reviews, keep checking back at Gaming Central.