Cool concept art for Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen online game (art gallery)

Check out the art for Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen online game, which has been in the works for more than a year. If you’re thinking that it looks little like Wing Commander, you wouldn’t be far from the mark. After all, Roberts created the Wing Commander series in the 1990s.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.