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Star Trek Online Get New Ferasan Race

Cryptic Studios, the developers of the Star Trek Online MMO, have announced that they have introduced the Ferasan race to their game, allowing gamers who have aligned themselves with the Klingon Defense Force to use them as part of their crew. The new characters as described as “A felinoid species that origina...

17 May 2012
12:11 GMT

Star Trek Online Available in Europe in Both French and German

Video game publisher Perfect World and developer Cryptic Studios have announced that they have launched the French and the German versions of their MMO Star Trek Online, allowing players to enjoy the free-to-play MMO in their own language. German and French gamers will be able to lead crew on missions while hearing ...

30 March 2012
08:54 GMT

Star Trek Online Gets Episode 4: The 2800 on February 11

The development team at Cryptic and publisher Perfect World have announced that the MMO Star Trek Online players will get access to new content on February 11, under the name Episode 4: The 2800. The number refers to the amount of ships that the Jem’Hadar inhabiting and dominating the Gamma Quadrant of the Gal...

6 February 2012
09:49 GMT

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

Play Star Trek Online for Free Starting on January 17, 2012

Video game publisher Atari has confirmed that its MMO Star Trek Online will be moving to the free-to-play business model on January 17 of next year, allowing all interested players to explore the entire game without paying any subscription.This is just the latest of high profile MMOs who are ditching the subscription...

15 November 2011
10:13 GMT

Star Trek Online Will Go Free to Play Before End of Year

Video game publisher Perfect World has announced that it plans to make the Star Trek Online MMO free-to-play before the end of the year, joining one of the most popular trends for the genre. It's not yet clear how much of the game world players who chose not to pay will be able to access or what are the advan...

2 September 2011
13:31 GMT

Perfect World Buys Cryptic Studios

China-based MMO-oriented publisher Perfect World has announced that it is taking over developer Cryptic Studios, based in Los Gatos, California, presumably in order to further develop its massive multiplayer online experiences. The price that Perfect World paid for Cryptic is 50.3 million dollars, which is signifi...

31 May 2011
09:31 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

Star Trek Online Might Get More Shuttle Action, Retrait Mode

Star Trek Online, the MMO based around the well-known television universe, has faced an uphill struggle ever since it was released and met with mixed reactions from gamers, but it seems that the developers have big plans for 2011. Their plans, revealed via a pretty lengthy Questions & Answers session on the officia...

14 January 2011
13:31 GMT

Season Three For Star Trek Online Confirmed for December 9

Cryptic Studios, as the developer, and Atari, as the publisher, have announced that the Season Three update, labeled Genesis, for the MMO Star Trek Online is now officially set to be released on December 9, 2010 bringing a host of changes to the video game that is based around the successful science fiction franchise...

17 November 2010
04:12 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

Atari Bets Big on Online Sales

Atari has reported an impressive fall of 65 percent in its sales for the first quarter of its fiscal year, with sales going to 25 million dollars. Despite the slow down the company has reported that it is no longer losing money and has even managed to make a small profit while continuing with its strategy of getting ...

28 July 2010
13:31 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

Atari Focuses on Star Trek Online, Sees Smaller Loss

Publisher Atari has posted financial results for the fiscal year, which ended on March 31, managing to cut its losses from 221.9 million Euros, about 272.4 million dollars, during the previous year, to just over 19 million Euros.The company even succeeded in posting a small profit, of 3.8 million, during the second h...

27 May 2010
13:31 GMT

Star Trek Online Season Two and Three Updates Announced

Star Trek Online will see some interesting changes in its next two major updates, Season Two and Season Three. Craig Zinkievich, the title's executive producer, talked about what was in store for the fans in the big content additions to come in his latest State of the Game address. Season Two will include, acc...

24 May 2010
03:50 GMT

Star Trek Online Prepares for Seasons 2 and 3

Star Trek Online has just received its first significant content update with the Season One: Common Ground package and, just a few months after the official launch of the MMO, Cryptic is looking forward to a Season 2 and a Season 3 that they plan to have out this year, although the exact content that will be added is...

7 April 2010
04:22 GMT

Death Penalties Could Come to Star Trek Online

Death in video games is a very abstract concept, and each genre punishes players in different ways for carelessly throwing away their lives. Single-player games tended to force the re-load screen upon them, but, without such a feature in online titles, death and defeat needed to adapt, developing actual punishments f...

19 February 2010
05:14 GMT

Full Ship Exploration in the Works for Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online is now out and Cryptic Studios, the developer of the MMO, is quickly moving to talking about the wonderful things they plan to offer to players in the coming weeks and months. This might be seen as an answer to players’ complaining about the limited content offered in the initial release of the...

18 February 2010
03:16 GMT

Star Trek Online Will See Big Changes

Star Trek Online is the latest MMO launch and the first big one of 2010, and the people at Cryptic are really working hard on making sure that those who were first attracted to the game because of the Star Trek theme will be staying for the wealth of fresh content the developers are planning to implement in the comin...

3 February 2010
13:31 GMT

World of Warcraft Is Running Out of Challengers

Blizzard might have shattered the MMO market when it released its World of Warcraft, but you know things are really going downhill when the competition is calmly admitting defeat. NCsoft might have tried to shake things up a bit with its Aion: Tower of Eternity, but didn't cause nearly enough of a stir to pose a...

27 January 2010
06:57 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

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's Open Beta Is Set for January

Cryptic's last massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Champions Online, has had people grinding for just over two months, but that won't stop the developer from working overdrive on its next MMORPG. Star Trek Online is announced for release on February 2, 2010, and its developers have now announced...

23 November 2009
04:47 GMT

Star Trek Online Coming on February 2

Cryptic Studios, as the developer, and Atari, as the publisher, have announced that Star Trek Online, their MMO that will allow players to live the life of a starship captain, is set to go live on February 2 in North America and on February 5 in Europe.The news is not yet offered on the official page of the project, ...

10 November 2009
07:15 GMT

Star Trek Online Runs on Consoles Right Now

The idea that gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony are the mediums that MMOs will conquer next has been around for some years but while multiplayer-oriented gaming has been on the rise on those platforms, no MMO managed to really gain traction on devices that are dominated ...

14 October 2009
13:51 GMT

Klingons Are Playable in Star Trek Online

With Champions Online released and playable, Cryptic is shifting its development team to work on its next project, Star Trek Online, the MMO set to arrive in 2010, allowing gamers to take on the role of Starfleet captain in a distant future when the Khitomer Accords have broken down and the Federation and Klingon Emp...

13 October 2009
08:57 GMT

A Little Something Special in the Star Trek Season 3 Blu-ray Box

Season 3 of Star Trek: The Original Series becomes available on Blu-ray in December. But that’s not all that this release will bring to Star War fans. For those who also enjoy a good online raid in some futuristic dungeon, the box offers a limited edition extra bonus. The box set will contain a unique code made...

29 September 2009
05:03 GMT

Early Subscribers Get Rewards in Champions Online

Champions Online, the Cryptic-created and Atari-published super hero-oriented MMO, is set to arrive on September 1 and the developers and publishers are trying some interesting tactics to get players to sign up for the long term with the game, rather than getting a subscription for only one month that can be constant...

6 August 2009
14:31 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

New Details Surface About Star Trek Online

The space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is definitely a crowded one. We've got EVE Online, which currently dominates its rivals, but we also have quite a few new contenders that are starting to appear and promise to take the space exploration experience to a whole new leve...

2 December 2008
02:47 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

The Star Trek MMO Loses Developer, Future Unsure

What seems like bad news might actually be good news for the trekkers out there: Perpetual Entertainment in no longer developing the Star Trek MMO game. Although this wasn't expected, many problems related to this game's development have occurred recently. According to warcry.com, even though Perpetual Ent...

16 January 2008
03:35 GMT

Star Trek Online Developers Sued by PR Firm

If there was anybody hoping that things start to calm down for Perpetual Entertainment, it didn't happen. First, there was the announcement made by the developers that Gods & Heroes, their nearly completed MMO was canceled. Second, Star Trek Online, the highly anticipated MMO was announced to turn into a more "c...

13 December 2007
05:24 GMT

Star Trek Online: First Image Released

All Star Trek fans all over the world, there are reasons for you to be happy! Actually... there is one reason to be happy about: the first fully-fleshed out in-engine screenshot since the "change in art direction", was released. The graphics are great and everybody's happy that things are still moving in the rig...

5 December 2007
05:34 GMT


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