They can't keep getting away with this: Star Citizen has now raised over $800 million after 13 years, and it's still in alpha

The start of 2025 brought a familiar refrain, with Cloud Imperium CEO Chris Roberts sallying forth to declare that 'we are closer than ever to realizing a dream many have said is impossible' with Star Citizen. Which is to say actually releasing the thing: the holy grail of version 1.0.

Naturally Roberts didn't even put the vaguest of timelines on this. Why bother? Star Citizen, and its singleplayer component Squadron 42, have now passed an almost unbelievable milestone: at the time of writing...