Star Citizen features stunning sci-fi visuals (screenshot gallery)

Chris Roberts, the creator of the classic space sim Wing Commander, is unveiling his new space combat online game Star Citizen today. Here’s a screenshot gallery. Roberts’ new company is Cloud Imperium, and it will publish a massively multiplayer online game within a couple of years. This is one of the best-looking games we’ve seen in a while, and it’s going to be an online gaming world, with space-sim combat and story elements.

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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.