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.

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

He's a fan of science fiction, and has seen Star Wars when he was 8 with his brother Erin Roberts, going home to build star wars spaceships out of Legos before Legos made them and reading massive amounts of books from authors such as Heinlein, Asimov or Le Guin.

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

In 1987, Roberts had a publishing contract with Origin Systems where he made Times of Lore and Bad Blood. Despite having an office there he wasn't an employee.

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

He left Origin to be in a smaller more focused company and group to do a small number a high quality games a year and know everyone who was walking down the corridor. He also wanted the ability to exploit universes and stories he created or other people in the company created and take them to film or tv and be small enough to react, whereas Electronic Arts didn't care about the film business.

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.

He founded Fever Pitch Studios, which was acquired by Warthog en 2003.

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.