The world's most expensive video game - Star Citizen - crosses the billion dollar mark

The world's most expensive video game has gotten even richer. Star Citizen's funding yesterday crossed $1 billion, making it the first video game in history to - formally - accomplish the feat.Star Citizen commenced development in 2011 and was revealed to the public via a Kickstarter campaign in the autumn of 2012. The initial Kickstarter campaign drew in $2 million, but Cloud Imperium Games kept their own crowdfunding page open and allowed fans to directly back the game in return for in-game rewards like new ships. Funding reaching $65 million in late 2014, $127 million in September 2016 and $500 million in September 2022.Star Citizen is a massive, online space simulator video game designed by Chris Roberts, the noted British creator of video games like the Wing Commander, Privateer and Freelancer series, as well as having worked in the movie industry. Roberts' funding scheme has allowed him to pursue the space game of his dreams, unencumbered by stifling corporate oversight, release…