Chris Roberts: Last News

The redevelopment of the Mill Gate shopping centre is a step closer. Bury council has agreed a masterplan to build homes, retail, leisure and hospitality space.

There’s a new crew in town.

Canadian filmmaker Director X is revealing how his new Global original series, “Robyn Hood”, came about.

UCLAbroadcaster Chris Roberts, who called the football and men’s basketball play-by-play for 23 seasons before retiring, died May 12 at his Glendora, Calif., home at age 74. He had complications of Parkinson’s disease, according to the university.

A young mum died after emergency services took four hours to find her following an overdose, an inquest heard.

Star Citizen has now received over $500,000,000 (£440,942,500) from fans via its crowdfunder, with $100,000,000 (£88,200,500) of that coming in the last 12 months.Star Citizen was originally announced back in 2012, with the initial crowdfunder raising $2.1million (£1.8million).Now, a decade later, it’s gone on to earn developer Cloud Imperium Games $500,123,234 (£441,051,178) according to the official “funds raised” section of the Star Citizen website, with over 4million people pledging.Star Citizen was originally meant to be released in 2014 but according to Cloud Imperium Games’ Carl Jones, both it and standalone spin-off Squadron 42 (the game’s long-awaited and much-delayed standalone single-player story adventure) are apparently “years away” from launch.“I guess we’ll see how long [director Chris Roberts] needs to be over,” he said earlier this year. “But yeah, it could be one or two years more.

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