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'Star Trek' Sequel Will Shoot in 2D, Get Post-Conversion

For “Star Trek” fans who found J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot the best fresh start the franchise could possibly get, it's been a very tough couple of years. Production on the sequel kicks off next month and the famous director is finally spilling the beans on what fans can expect from it. The “S...

21 December 2011
08:16 GMT

Benicio del Toro Is Villain in 'Star Trek' Sequel

The sequel to J.J. Abrams' 2009 “Star Trek” will come out next year, word online has it. Casting is now complete, after the director got Benicio del Toro for the part of the villain, one that he refuses to reveal to the press. In fact, Abrams is so determined to keep del Toro's part a secret tha...

8 November 2011
05:29 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Cheats and Unlockables (DS)

Star Trek: Tactical Assault is a video game developed by Quicksilver Software and published by Bethesda Softworks for the Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation Portable handheld consoles, released on November 14, 2006, in North America, December 1, in Europe and December 7, in Australia. As you can tell by its name, St...

22 June 2011
13:51 GMT

Star Trek Free to Play Game Is Set in Deep Space Nine Universe

Gameforce, a German online games publisher, has announced that it will be launching Star Trek – Infinite Space, a free to play browser based casual title, that will be set in the Deep Space Nine universe and will allow gamers to explore space and engage in all negotiation and intrigue linked with the television...

30 September 2010
05:23 GMT

Free Star Trek Games Are Coming to Facebook and Internet Browsers

Gameforge, a German online game-oriented company, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with CBS Consumer Products, which will allow it to create free-to-play, browser-based videogames on the Star Trek license. Initially, the company plans to put together a Facebook game and a browser-based one, with th...

23 June 2010
13:21 GMT

EndWeekGame: April 9

The first few months of 2010 have been pretty busy in terms of quality videogame releases due mainly to publishers being scared (with good reason, it seems) to actually put their titles up against behemoth Modern Warfare 2. And there are quite a bit of games that I still need to play more of, like The Awakening expan...

9 April 2010
17:51 GMT

Star Trek, Inglourious Basterds and Harry Potter Coming to the PSN

Sony Computer Entertainment of America has announced deals with some of the biggest film studios in Hollywood, aimed at delivering their movies in High Definition format on the PlayStation Network.The offer is available only in the United States at the moment but Sony is saying that movies through the PSN will soon b...

15 March 2010
06:02 GMT

‘Star Trek’ Sequel Arrives in June 2012

Though many fans didn’t actually see it that way, “Star Trek” is considered by critics one of the best movies released in 2009. Given the hype before and after the release in theaters, it’s understandable why talk of a sequel to the reboot would go back to almost a year before the actual relea...

13 January 2010
11:53 GMT

‘Star Trek’ Is Most Pirated Movie of 2009

J.J. Abram’s 2009 “Star Trek” has been named by critics one of the best movies of the year, along with the most successful reboot of a longstanding franchise that enjoys the support of millions of fans around the world. According to numbers released by Torrent Freak just recently, “Star Trek&r...

28 December 2009
09:49 GMT

Download Star Trek: D-A-C for Mac OS X Now

Paramount Digital Entertainment and TransGaming have announced the immediate availability of Star Trek: D-A-C for Mac OS X. The downloadable, fast-paced, top-down space shooter allows up to 12 players to compete in intergalactic battles between the Starfleet and the Romulan Empire, and costs just $9.95. An Intel Mac ...

23 December 2009
08:41 GMT

Cryptic Announces the Star Trek Online System Requirements

As its launch date approaches, more and more details regarding Star Trek Online begin to surface. The latest details its developers have released are the system requirements so that Star Trek fans will have plenty of time to upgrade their system if necessary. The minimum requirements for the game are pretty decent, t...

12 November 2009
02:42 GMT

A 250GB PlayStation 3 Slim Will Come Out in November

Yet another PlayStation 3 version is about to hit the market. The new SKU's hard drive is more than twice the size of the older one but thankfully it's not twice the price as well. The new product is a 250GB edition of the PlayStation 3 Slim, it will become available on November 3 and will cost $349. It...

16 October 2009
07:45 GMT

‘Star Trek’ Sequel to Explore Modern-Day Issues

J.J. Abrams’ 2009 “Star Trek” is undeniably the biggest critical and commercial success of the year, both critics and fans agree, while also standing in a class all of its own as one of the most accomplished reboots of our times. As such, it’s no wonder fans want a sequel to it, a fact of whic...

16 September 2009
11:28 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Unlockables IV (DS)

In popular culture, there are certainly a lot of iconic franchises that have gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. From titles like Star Wars to The Simpsons, such series spanned different entertainment mediums and delivered some of the best experiences in the world.One very popular example is Star Tre...

19 August 2009
14:11 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Unlockables III (DS)

In popular culture, there are certainly a lot of iconic franchises that have gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. From titles like Star Wars to The Simpsons, such series spanned different entertainment mediums and delivered some of the best experiences in the world.One very popular example is Star Tre...

18 August 2009
14:11 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Unlockables II (DS)

In popular culture, there are certainly a lot of iconic franchises that have gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. From titles like Star Wars to The Simpsons, such series spanned different entertainment mediums and delivered some of the best experiences in the world.One very popular example is Star Tre...

17 August 2009
16:01 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Unlockables (DS)

In popular culture, there are certainly a lot of iconic franchises that have gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. From titles like Star Wars to The Simpsons, such series spanned different entertainment mediums and delivered some of the best experiences in the world.One very popular example is Star Tre...

14 August 2009
15:21 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Cheats III (DS)

In popular culture, there are certainly a lot of iconic franchises that have gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. From titles like Star Wars to The Simpsons, such series spanned different entertainment mediums and delivered some of the best experiences in the world.One very popular example is Star Tre...

13 August 2009
16:01 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Cheats II (DS)

In popular culture, there are certainly a lot of iconic franchises that have gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. From titles like Star Wars to The Simpsons, such series spanned different entertainment mediums and delivered some of the best experiences in the world.One very popular example is Star Tre...

12 August 2009
16:01 GMT

Star Trek: Tactical Assault Cheats (DS)

In popular culture, there are certainly a lot of iconic franchises that have gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. From titles like Star Wars to The Simpsons, such series spanned different entertainment mediums and delivered some of the best experiences in the world.One very popular example is Star Tre...

11 August 2009
16:01 GMT

Ghostbusters and Riddick Make Atari Profitable

Publisher Atari has announced that the first quarter of the current financial year has seen it get a revenue increase of 30%, reaching 77.78 million dollars on the strength of the sales that have been generated by Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.The company has released ...

29 July 2009
03:48 GMT

Scientists Create Aluminum That Is Transparent in X-Rays

What a few years ago seemed like a thing of science-fiction, as viewed in the popular show Star Trek, has recently been proven by German scientists to exist in real-life as well. Scientists at the FLASH facility, in Hamburg, have created a form of transparent aluminum, albeit only visible in X-ray wavelengths. The ac...

27 July 2009
08:56 GMT

EA Mobile Announces New Movie-Based Games

EA Mobile recently announced that it would bring Hollywood to mobile phones in 2009 with the release of four new games based on this year's movies: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, G.I. JOE The Rise of Cobra, Star Trek, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Mobile phone users will be able to extend their movie ex...

26 June 2009
04:36 GMT

Chris Pine Explains Kirk-Spock Bromance

Although more or less against his will, Chris Pine of “Star Trek” fame is slowly turning into a huge star, with a fanbase that expands from day to day, and people who would be willing to do anything to get him to speak about his projects or personal life. Speaking of projects, the actor got to sit down wi...

20 May 2009
08:33 GMT

Paramount Pictures Sends Star Trek Copy to the ISS

The new blockbuster movie Star Trek, which recently hit the big screen, and has already cashed in millions of dollars worldwide, has also been sent to astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday. Paramount Pictures, the copyright owner for the new film, sent a copy of its work to the ISS Missi...

16 May 2009
14:01 GMT

Planetary Scientists Advised for Saturn's Rings in New Star Trek

J. J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Trek movie that just recently came out, apparently wanted to get all of his scientific facts right before he depicted his take on the Universe. Indeed, in one of the most epic sequences of the entire movie, the USS Enterprise, the famous ship around which the entire Star Tre...

16 May 2009
03:10 GMT

Nokia Phones and the Star Trek Movie

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia was reported not too long ago to come up to the market with yet another iteration of its popular Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handset, namely a Star Trek edition of the phone. We reported back then that the new version would include a wide range of multimedia files meant to remind us of the...

11 May 2009
09:17 GMT

Star Trek (2009) – Movie Review

Until not long ago, they said that you could easily divide filmgoers into “Star Trek” fans, “Star Wars” ones and the in-between group, those who liked neither. With J.J. Abrams’ 2009 “Star Trek,” the origin story, such classification becomes as redundant as it is unwanted. Th...

9 May 2009
09:31 GMT

The Star Trek Titanium Spork

Movie and TV series-branded memorabilia and other sorts of merchandise are definitely making up very serious money. And just when we thought we were pretty close to having “seen them all,” here's one new piece to raise an eyebrow and open (again) the wallet: the solid titanium Star Trek Spork, issued...

27 April 2009
11:42 GMT

J.J. Abrams Wanted Matt Damon as Captain Kirk in ‘Star Trek’

As early as July 2006, director J.J. Abrams was telling the media that he wanted no other actor for the part of Cpt. Kirk than “Bourne” star Matt Damon. When nothing else was heard of the rumor, it was believed that the role was meant to go to newcomer Chris Pine, but the director is now speaking with the...

23 April 2009
11:27 GMT

Prove Your Rock Band Skills and Win a Star Trek Movie Screening

Harmonix and MTV Games are bent on promoting their music game franchise, Rock Band, by any means possible and keep it in the public spotlight with various announcements and features. After releasing this week the lists of DLC songs that will appear for all of the consoles on which their titles are present, the two co...

2 April 2009
13:11 GMT

Atari Buys Cryptic Studios

Atari, which has been quite present in the news lately, acquiring the rights to publish Sam & Max and talking about the future of Baldur’s Gate, announces having acquired developer Cryptic Studios.Cryptic is a respected development studio. It has created City of Heroes and City of Villains for NCsoft, although ...

11 December 2008
12:31 GMT

Bill Roper Joins Cryptic

The co-founder of Flagship and one of the most important people behind the MMO Hellgate: London, Bill Roper, is set to join Cryptic Studios, to work on their upcoming superhero powered title, Champions Online, as a design director.Bill Roper became well known to videogames lovers as one of the key people responsible ...

4 November 2008
03:39 GMT

New Details on Star Trek MMO

Star Trek has a lot of fans and has been the setting of a few games, without any spectacular result. Even if the intellectual property is very interesting for developers, they have never managed to make players connect with the Star Trek games that have come about.Now Cryptic is trying to come up with something ...

23 September 2008
04:21 GMT

Things Are Going Wrong for the LHC

The Large Hadron Collider has recently been the target of a hacker attack, which raised serious concerns about the security capabilities of world's biggest experiment. So, yes, LHC is in the spotlight again. It seems that the public hysteria caused by the hypothetical idea that LHC could trigger the formati...

13 September 2008
04:24 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

Real Tricorders Come to Life

If you once were or still are a Star Trek fan, then you probably already know what a tricorder is or what it should be; it's a handheld device that practically acts as a biological laboratory. And, as usual, Sci-Fi once again becomes reality. A device similar to the tricorder, called LOCAD-PTS, standing for Lab-...

12 May 2008
04:24 GMT

Rockstar Buys Up Studio

Rockstar, publisher of GTA IV and a subsidiary of Electronic Arts-targeted Take Two, has announced it is buying up Mad Doc Software, based in Andover, Massachusetts, just to the north of Boston. Rockstar is renaming the studio as Rockstar New England and is preparing to launch the first development efforts at the new...

7 April 2008
03:54 GMT

Star Trek: Birth of the Federation Cheats (PC)

Star Trek: Birth of the Federation is a 4X turn-based computer strategy game, based on the Star Trek fictional universe, that was released in 1999. It was published by Microprose, makers of Master of Orion and Civilization.The similarities to Microprose's earlier title Master of Orion become easily noticeable wh...

7 March 2008
06:38 GMT

Star Trek to Get Scientific Support

If SciFi movies haven't given a boost to science and technology, then I don't know what could have. Remember the Alcubierre warp drive? Yep, you guessed it, Star Trek warp drives were already working by the time Alcubierre calculated the physical theory on how to make such a devices work in 1994; not only t...

12 February 2008
09:31 GMT

Wacky Robots Go Scouting! Climb@Tron Challenges Mighty Brainizord, Defies Gravity...

As weird as it may sound, there are some robots on the market that can actually climb on the top of the roof and make your cat jump…into the fireman's lap, of course. The original window-climbing robot is called Climb @ Tron EX, also known as the robot Explorer. The amazing thing with this kind of robot is its c...

21 September 2007
03:41 GMT

Trekkies Gone Wild, Volume XI

Put your pointy ears on folks, as the new "Star Trek" feature film has been confirmed for release on December 25th, 2008. This new project is a departure from the traditional Trek drama, previously controlled by the controversial Rick Berman, and is now produced and directed by the even-more-controversial team led by...

13 July 2007
09:34 GMT

Star Trek Bridge Commander Cheats

Totally Games are the creators behind the highly appreciated X-Wing series. In 2002, they made the connection to the famous Star Trek series. The Sci-Fi world and conventions were utterly changed once the Star Trek universe caught shape. U.S.S. Enterprise became the ultimate ship in the eyes of every science-fiction ...

12 March 2007
12:29 GMT


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