Chris Roberts



Chris Roberts is the co-founder, CEO, chief creative officer of Cloud Imperium Games, and the director of Star Citizen and Squadron 42.

Other Works
He was born in the US, moved to Manchester UK where he met Martin Galway in High School.

He sold his first game at the age of 13, and developped 3 number one hits by the age of 20: Match Day, Wiz Adore and Stryker's Run.

In 1987, Roberts joined Origin Systems.

In 1990, Roberts developed Wing Commander, which evolved into a franchise series of game titles, all developed and produced by Roberts.

Roberts was Chairman and CEO of Digital Anvil, the game development and digital effects company he founded in 1996 with funding from Microsoft and Advanced Micro Devices. In December of 2000, Roberts sold Digital Anvil to Microsoft. Digital Anvil remains a successful subsidiary of Microsoft and content provider for the XBox.

He founded Ascendant Pictures in March 2002. In 2004, Roberts earned an Executive Producer credit on The Punisher and produced The Big White (Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Woody Harrelson) and Lord Of War (Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto). In 2005, Roberts produced Lucky Number Slevin. In addition, he served as Executive Producer on The Jacket (Adrien Brody and Keira Knightly) and the Robert Towne film, Ask The Dust (Colin Farrell and Selma Hayek).

In 2011, Chris Roberts founded Cloud Imperium Games with his wife Sandi Roberts, as well as business partner and long-time international media attorney Ortwin Freyermuth