{"id":63377,"date":"2014-04-15T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T09:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=63377"},"modified":"2014-04-15T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T09:36:02","slug":"star-citizen-crowdfunding-reaches-42-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/63377-star-citizen-crowdfunding-reaches-42-million","title":{"rendered":"Star Citizen crowdfunding reaches $42 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/60380-star-citizen-pc-wont-be-dumbed-down-to-console-standards.html\">Star Citizen<\/a>\u00a0fans have contributed $42 million (around R442,142,400) into\u00a0Roberts Space Industries\u2019 purses, ensuring the project will not only be completed, but that new content is also in production for the space sim.<\/p>\n<p>In Chris Robert&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/transmission\/13812-Letter-From-The-Chairman-42-Million\" target=\"_blank\">Letter from The Chairman<\/a>, he said the new funds have guaranteed the following additions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updated Observist Guide \u2013 Additional funding from the $42 million level will go to expanding the website area of the Galactapedia: expect to see holographic ships, items, and navigation interface in 3D.<\/li>\n<li>Explorer-class mobiGlas Rig \u2013 Every player who backed before we hit $42 million will start the game with their own, visually distinctive mobiGlas \u201cExoGlas\u201d rig which can be used to access the Observist at any time.<\/li>\n<li>Gladius \u2013 The Squadron 42 team will develop an additional fighter for the game, the Aegis Dynamics Gladius-class light fighter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is a video of\u00a0\u00a0Star Citizen\u2019s dog-fighting module, shown off at\u00a0PAX East. It is a bit &#8220;buggy&#8221; owing to the fact the game is still in its alpha version.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQ6Y0DAYonY?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2014\/04\/15\/star-citizen-crowdfunding-total-reaches-42-million-adding-new-fighter-towel\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG24\/7<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63309-gaming-grows-your-brain.html\">Gaming grows your brain<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63286-the-hunt-for-the-e-t-video-game.html\">The hunt for the E.T. video game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63200-infamous-second-son-breaks-the-million-mark.html\">InFamous: Second Son breaks the million mark<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can stop handing them your money now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":63378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,12300,7355],"class_list":["post-63377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-crowdfunding","tag-star-citizen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63379,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63377\/revisions\/63379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}