Star Citizen blasts through $1 billion in player funding, as its developer lists a new $5,000 spaceship for sale that is 'not yet ready to play'

It finally happened. Star Citizen has officially surpassed $1 billion in player funding. Well, I say 'finally', it actually crashed through the barrier a lot faster than I expected. I've kept a close eye on the funding tracker for Cloud Imperium Games' hugely ambitious space MMO as it approached the big one-billy milestone, and with around $10 million to go last time I checked, I anticipated it hitting the target sometime in the next few weeks.

I suppose I was technically correct. But I didn't take into account the fact that Star Citizen is playable for free until Wednesday, as part of its annual DefenseCon event where you can test out all its spaceships at zero cost. That means a lot more people will have been checking it. Some of those will undoubtedly have been seduced by all its big shiny spacecraft, which woul...