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Set your phasers on stupid Trek reference, as Cryptic's Star Trek Online opens its free-to-play docking bay and invites the world inside following a brief subscriber-only period. To see what players get for free, hit up the official Star Trek Online web page. More »
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Since running a big, enjoyable feature on Duncan Harris, the "video game photographer" behind the website DeadEndThrills, I've been sharing some of his work each week here. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5876079&view=rss&microfeed=true Players with a lapsed subscription to Cryptic's Star Trek Online can come back an play the game at no cost today as part of the free-to-play early start program. Everyone else can play for free come January 17. More »
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Late last week it was revealed that Cryptic Studios' massively multiplayer Star Trek Online would be going free-to-play later this year, swapping required subscription fees for an active player base. Today we find out what's free and what'll have players reaching for their gold-pressed latinum. More »
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Star Trek Online, the MMO picked up by new owner Perfect World when it acquired Cryptic Studios back in May, will be taken to a free-to-play format by the end of 2011, says the new ownership. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5836738&view=rss&microfeed=true Publisher Atari is "divesting" itself of MMO specialists Cryptic Studios, which it snapped up in 2008. It's trying to sell the creators of Star Trek Online and Champions Online after losing Atari millions. [Atari Results (PDF)] More »
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It's been a year since Cryptic Studios boldly went and released a massively-multiplayer game based on Star Trek, and it's come quite a long way since then. See what's changed and what's next for Star Trek Online. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5750302&view=rss&microfeed=true Bill Roper — one of the forces behind Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo — defected to Cryptic Studios back in 2008 to work on Champions Online and Star Trek. He has recently stated that he's leaving Cryptic, but hasn't given specifics. More »
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Atari and Cryptic Studios have mounted a huge push for players in Star Trek Online, featuring a referral program, veteran rewards, a free demo, and an invitation to lapsed players of the three-month-old MMO to try it again for free. More »
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This is no video game. This is an image of a gigantic baby star inside a galactic bubble 4,300 light-years from Earth, captured by Europe's Herschel space telescope. Has video game space ever been so beautiful? More »
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Like the console version(s) of Cryptic's superhero MMO Champions Online, Star Trek Online is having a hard time making the leap from PCs to consoles, as if it were caught in some sort of temporal distortion field, Captain. More »
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For Klingons, every day is a good day to die, but you might want to wait until Cryptic slips the new Klingon player-versus-enemy content into Star Trek Online, as seem in part two of the Expanding Universe video series. More »
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While the NPD Group has ceased providing weekly sales charts for the boxed-copy PC market in the US, it still hands out its monthly - and often hilarious - lists. Let's look at February's. More »
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After years of television series, books, cartoons, movies, and video games for both consoles and PCs, Star Trek faces the final frontier: the massively-multiplayer role-playing game. More »
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Here's the trailer for Star Trek Online's first major content update, in which the Borg decide to give the whole Borg Queen thing another try, since it worked out so well the last time. More »
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In this, my final MMO Log for Star Trek Online, I desperately claw my way through PVP combat and missions based on classic Trek episodes in my quest to make it to commander rank before the series ends. More »
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Death in Star Trek Online seems to be a disappointing experience for its fans, lacking narrative oomph and encouraging unreasonably risky behavior. The game's executive producer says the studio is listening and considering a change. More »
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In this third MMO Log for Star Trek Online, we feel the ravages of free time, explore episodic missions, and reach the sobering revelation that I still know Monty Python and The Holy Grail by heart. More »
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If you can't bring an Orion girl into your personal quarters, what good is Star Trek Online? Cryptic has plans to unlock more of the players' ship interiors for exploration, answering the prayers of role-playing STO subscribers across the universe. More »
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Cryptic just couldn't resist using the Borg as its first big content update for Star Trek Online. After all, nothing can move the Borg! Wait, that's not right. More »
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Join us for the second installment of my weekly Star Trek MMO log, in which we explore the depths of unknown space and gain a taste for blood as the fiery Orion battle maiden, Verdania. More »
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Star Trek Online launched this week, which was a good enough reason to investigate what Star Trek means to games and gamers. Below are special links to all our Star Trek Week stories, from STO impressions to rants and recollections. More »
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Continuing a long tradition of MMO games based on established IP, publisher Atari has revealed that Star Trek Online has got off to a great start in life. More »
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Star Trek is as much a staple of geek culture as gaming, so it's no surprise that it's influence has shown up in countless video games over the years. What's your favorite Star Trek video game reference? More »
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Life in the 24th and 25th century wasn't all about shooting people with phasers, knocking around aliens and "making it so." More »
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Welcome to the first weekly installment of the Star Trek Online MMO Log, a four-part weekly series, leading up to our review. In this first installment, I take my first steps, and lose a great deal of sleep. More »
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The United Federation of Planets in the time of Star Trek Online isn't beyond adding the odd Ferengi or Klingon, as long as the price is right. How much would you pay for the privilege? More »
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This week's launch of Star Trek Online gives video games another chance to make the fantasy of Star Trek seem a little more real. More »
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Has the perfect Star Trek video game been created? Perhaps not, but by taking key elements from the Star Trek games we've played over the past three decades, I believe we can come up with the perfect Star Trek Frankengame. More »
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Star Trek has always held a certain mystique for me. More »
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Star Trek Online is now online, with early start players flooding the game in order to get a leg up on the Starfleet captains waiting until launch day. More »
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With the game's launch just around the corner, the Star Trek Online beta test ends today as many things have before it - with a large-scale invasion by the Klingons. More »
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Atari teams with Del Taco to deliver free trial-laden limited-edition Star Trek Online collector's cups, with a free Type-8 Shuttle pet for those opting to supersize to the full game. More »
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Cryptic and Atari have announced the subscription rates for Star Trek Online, finally giving players an idea of the cost of playing the Trek-themed MMO, aside from sleep deprivation and a gradual loss of skin pigment. More »
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Prepare to pick out your uniform, christen your starship, and boldly go where only closed beta participants have gone before, as Cryptic launches the open beta test for Star Trek Online. More »
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Cryptic held a contest to develop names for three ship classifications in its upcoming Star Trek Online MMO, and the winners have been announced. The winners get the game and a special in-game title for their characters. More »
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Star Trek Online isn't all phaser shootouts and epic space battles. You'll spend plenty of time exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilizations, and boldly so. More »
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Here's a trailer ramming home the news we told you of yesterday; that Leonard Nimoy, aka the original Spock, will feature in the upcoming Star Trek Online. More »
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Just like the recent Star Trek movie had two Spocks in it, so too will the upcoming Star Trek MMO, with Zachary Quinto (new Spock) to be joined by Leonard Nimoy (old Spock). More »
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In case you missed this weekend's Spike TV Video Game Awards—or had the television muted while Zachary Quinto was onstage—you also missed the announcement that Atari's Star Trek Online was getting a little more Trek cred. More »
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