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 Manhester 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.

He founded Ascendant Pictures in 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).