Hover ships are a feature of Star Citizen alpha 3.6.
Hover ships are a feature of Star Citizen alpha 3.6.
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Star Citizen Alpha 3.6: Hover ships, space stations, and the law warp in

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Cloud Imperium Games is announcing today the Alpha 3.6 update for Star Citizen, the sci-fi massively multiplayer online universe that has been in the works for about seven years.

Cloud Imperium and its affiliated Roberts Space Industries raised $46 million in venture capital in December and $229 million from 2.3 million crowdfunding backers to date, and that has helped the team deliver quarterly updates of Star Citizen (a massive online game) as it marches toward a launch in the summer of 2020 for its Squadron 42, a single-player, story-based game.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.