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Star Trek Online Goes Free-to-Play for Everyone

The developer of the MMO Star Trek Online has announced that all those interested in the game can now enjoy the game using a free-to-play and microtransaction model.The elements that are under limited availability for the free-to-play accounts include Guild creation, character and officer slots and inventory.There ar...

18 January 2012
08:13 GMT

Star Trek Online Receives The Foundry, Is Ready for User-Created Content

Cryptic Studios, as the developer, and Atari, as the publisher, have announced that they are launching a new add-on for the Star Trek Online MMO, called The Foundry, which will allow them to develop and then share complex mission set in the game universe. The two companies say that the tool is aimed directly at th...

4 April 2011
09:57 GMT

Champions Online Sees 1,000 Percent Increase in Players and Revenue

Cryptic Studios, as the developer, and Atari, as the publisher, have announced that, after morphing into a free-to-play game, their MMO Champions Online has managed to see an increase in user activity of more than 1,000 percent, with hundreds of thousands of gamers creating superhero avatars in order to see what the ...

21 February 2011
03:23 GMT

Champions Online Goes Free to Play in Early 2011

Atari, as the publisher, and Cryptic Studios, as the developer, have announced that their superhero based MMO Champions Online is set to become free to play for all those interested beginning with the first quarter of 2011, following the lead of other titles like Lord of the Rings Online.The base game will be offered...

27 October 2010
04:20 GMT

Rumor Mill: Neverwinter Nights MMO Ready for an Announcement

Statements from Atari representatives and registrations for a variety of sites suggests that a new video game set in the Neverwinter Nights Dungeons & Dragons universe is in development and could be officially announced soon.Publisher Atari has managed to revive interest in Dungeons & Dragon Online by making the gam...

11 August 2010
08:08 GMT

Executive Producer Leaves Star Trek Online

Craig Zinkievich, who was the executive producer working on Star Trek Online, the Cryptic Studios made MMO based upon the successful science fiction universe, has announced that he is leaving the team in charge of the game, after more than two years of working on the project and after seven years working with the Cry...

7 July 2010
15:11 GMT

Star Trek Online's Open Beta Provides Crushing Numbers

For quite some time now, Cryptic has been working on Star Trek Online, and the game is getting ready to be launched. After releasing the pre-order incentives and announcing that lifetime subscribers will be the only ones to have access to the Liberated Borg special race, the game is beginning to draw a line and take...

20 January 2010
03:14 GMT

The Liberated Borg Becomes a Playable Star Trek Online Race

If you're a Star Trek fanatic, then you should already know that the ST Online beta is already up and running, with beta keys disappearing from every available distributor faster than you can grab one. In order to turn gamers into dedicated STO players, Atari has decided to release special, one-year and lifetime...

18 January 2010
12:01 GMT

Misfit Toys Coming to Champions Online

Cryptic Studios, as the developer, and Atari, as the publisher, have announced that they have launched a new content package for their MMO Champions Online, complete with a holiday theme. Players are being asked to make sure that the machinations of the Black Harlequin, a deranged clown, are stopped and that the peop...

23 December 2009
03:03 GMT

Star Trek Online Preorder Incentives Revealed

Few slices of the gaming industry pie-chart are as competitive as the MMO ones. Ever since World of Warcraft proved that it could recruit an army for itself, every other developer has been wanting one too. As such, it's no wonder that Cryptic Studios and Atari have not only announced special incentives meant to ...

8 December 2009
03:55 GMT

Star Trek Online Dev Talks About In-Game Careers

The space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) genre is definitely seeing an ascending trend in terms of titles that are aimed at it. Although there are a couple of games that dominate the market, like EVE Online, that doesn't stop other game developers from making titles and marketing ...

29 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Star Trek Online Will Have an Open End Story

Star Trek Online is shaping up to be a very interesting title, as it promises to bring quite a lot of innovations to the saturated space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market out there. It will focus on the unique story found in the Star Trek universe, and will give players the opportu...

8 December 2008
09:01 GMT

Cryptic Studios Wants to Take MMORPGs to the PlayStation 3

Cryptic Studios is a pretty popular developer, with creations such as Star Trek Online and Champions Online currently in development. Although not much is known about the latter, we do know a lot of things about the much loved space-themed online project, aimed to take the best Star Trek experience and give it to pla...

19 November 2008
02:27 GMT

Developer Talks About Combat in Star Trek Online

The Star Trek universe is extremely popular with fans of all ages and nations devoted to the several series of TV shows that aired since the 1960s. Of course, such a big fan base couldn't have been left unexploited by the gaming industry, which developed quite a few games based on the Star Trek franchise.The lat...

31 October 2008
03:35 GMT

Star Trek Online New Details Emerge

Years have passed since the Star Trek Online game was first announced and we all know it encountered lots of problems along the way - eventually being canceled and transferred to another game development company - Cryptic Studios. Right now, it seems that everything is working out just fine and, finally, STO seems to...

11 August 2008
05:52 GMT

Star Trek MMO, Under Development at Cryptic

The first piece of news about a massively multiplayer game based on the Star Trek universe was heard back in 2004 when Perpetual Entertainment announced its title. However, the game encountered lots of problems along the way and this January, Perpetual stopped developing it and transferred the license to another comp...

28 July 2008
12:06 GMT

2K to Publish Champions Online

2K, part of Take Two, has announced having entered into an agreement with Cryptic Studios regarding the distribution of the upcoming MMO Champions Online. As soon as the developers finish the work on the title, 2K will assume all the duties related to publishing the game and to supporting the launch.Cryptic is probab...

11 July 2008
03:12 GMT


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