Cloud Imperium Games

Cloud Imperium Games is an independent studio whose entire public PC offering is presently anchored by the RSI Launcher, a lightweight but indispensable gateway that manages every phase of the crowd-funded space-sim Star Citizen. Once executed, the launcher authenticates the player’s Roberts Space Industries account, enumerates available modules such as the persistent Universe, Arena Commander dog-fighting, and Star Marine first-person arenas, then streams multi-gigabyte patches via Amazon CloudFront while verifying each file through a custom binary-diff protocol. Beyond simple delivery, the utility exposes granular options: selectable patch channels (Live, PTU, EVO), P2P seeding controls, maximum bandwidth caps, library relocation, and crash-handler telemetry that feeds directly to the studio’s public Issue Council. It also doubles as a minimal news feed, serving studio updates, event timers, and promotional trailers without leaving the window. Because Star Citizen is still in alpha and receives quarterly drops, the launcher’s delta-patcher can shrink 40 GB updates to 6 GB, saving time for content creators, testers, and everyday backers who boot the client nightly. The same executable can stage multiple parallel installs, letting streamers maintain separate Live and Public-Test folders while keeping shared assets deduplicated on SSD volumes. Cloud Imperium Games’ RSI Launcher is available for free on get.nero.com, where it is pulled from the official winget repository, always installs the newest build, and can be queued alongside any other applications for unattended batch deployment.