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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 Alpha 2.5 Out, Update Adds Major Changes
Last week, Cloud Imperium Games announced a major update to their upcoming game Star Citizen, the 2.5 Alpha. The update includes significant changes to the game’s universe, and adds three new ships along with the Grim HEX pirate base. It also covers a lot of gameplay balance tweaks and bug fixes. Here’s what the official blog post reads, “”There’s plenty to discover at Grim HEX, including a pair of stores: Skutters is a guns and armor shop with a focus on energy weapons, and KC Trending is a new clothing store with unique merchandise, but that’s only the beginning. Grim HEX will continue to expand with future patches with the addition of a bar, criminal missions and outlaw racing area.” It will also have a significant effect on Star Citizen’s...