Starbound pre-orders total $1M in three weeks

Newsbrief: Team Chucklefish, the team behind upcoming sandbox-styled space game Starbound, has taken $1 million in pre-orders in less than three weeks. The studio opened up pre-orders for Starbound on April 12, and took nearly $500,000 over the first weekend. Now Chucklefish says that it has taken more than $1 million in total, with 42,000 backers. "Words can’t even express how grateful and overwhelmed we are by all the support you've shown us," said the team, "not just over the past couple of weeks, but for the past year or so since Starbound was officially announced. Read more on the official Starbound blog.