11 years and $750 million later, Star Citizen now has a new star system and MMO-scale server sizes

12 years on from its initial announcement, work on Star Citizen shows no signs of slowing down (not that it was exactly going at lightspeed in the first place). Developer Cloud Imperium Games has launched an 'alpha' for version 4.0 of Star Citizen nb, which is a pretty big deal. For context, version 3.0 of Star Citizen came out back in 2017, so this theoretically represents quite a big jump for the game.

The update introduces the new Pyro star system, which is made up of six planets, six moons, and countless outposts and bases.