Kotaku: Stargate Worlds

Stargate Worlds Bravely Soldiers On

Mike Fahey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Addressing concerns raised by Stargate television show producer Brad Wright, developer Cheyenne Mountain has issued a statement assuring everyone that development on Stargate Worlds is still underway. More »

Stargate Producer On Stargate Worlds: "It's A Terrible Shame"

Mike Fahey — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:40:00 EDT

Stargate executive producer Brad Wright echoes the feelings of thousands of fans, calling the delay of Cheyenne Mountain's massively multiplayer Stargate Worlds "a terrible shame." More »

Stargate Worlds Beta Launches October 15th

Mike Fahey — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:40:00 EDT

In less than two weeks the Stargate will open, allowing the first group of closed beta testers into the world of the hit Sci-Fi Channel television program. The Stargate Worlds closed beta kicks off on October 15th, and the developers are confident that the game is entering the home stretch. More »

Stargate Worlds Beta Signup Lottery For mmolecule Members

Stuart Houghton — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:40:00 EDT

Anyone itching to try out Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment's Stargate Worlds MMORPG could do worse than get themselves over to mmolecule.com. More »

Stargate Worlds Combines Running With Shooting

Mike Fahey — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:40:00 EDT

Here's the first gameplay trailer for FireSky's upcoming MMO, Stargate Worlds, based on the hit television series Stargate SG-1. It immediately reminds me of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, with a bit of Anarchy Online thrown in for good measure. It's got the sprawling battlefields and action-packed combat of Tabula Rasa with the otherworldliness of Anarchy Online thrown in for good measure. Hell, the characters even look a bit like Tabula Rasa player models. Maybe it's just a sci-fi MMO thing. In the future, it's all about running and shooting. More »

Stargate Worlds Beta Signups Begin

Mike Fahey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:40:00 EDT

When the Stargate SG-1 based MMORPG Stargate Worlds was first announced from Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, I had my doubts it would ever even reach the beta stage, yet here we are. The newly-formed publisher FireSky has announced that registrations for the closed beta of Stargate Worlds is now officially open. Hopeful players can head over to their website at www.StargateWorlds.com, register for an account, and have their name thrown into a giant hat from which beta testers will be chosen. They aren't asking for tech specs, so I can only assume the selection process is to be random, or perhaps by which names they like the best. Testers will be the first to enter the Stargate, and perhaps the first MMO players to utter the phrase, "Draw their fire while I complete this mini-game." My only question is can I be the James Spader Daniel Jackson, or am I going to be shoehorned into the Michael Shanks portrayal? This sort of thing keeps me up at night. More »

Joe Ybarra on Stargate MMO, Free To Play, Licensing

Maggie Greene — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:00:00 EDT

It's hard to fault people for being really ambitious, and Joe Ybarra (producer of games ranging from The Bard's Tale to the Matrix Online, and now of Stargate Worlds) certainly sounds ambitious. Ybarra talked to Gamasutra about the problems of licensing IP, the MMO industry today, where Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is headed. First, though, there's the Stargate MMO to worry about: More »

Stargate Worlds Debut Teaser

Mike Fahey — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:20:38 EST

In case you weren't listening on Friday or - like me - don't have cable, here is the teaser trailer for Cheyenne Mountain's Stargate Worlds MMO. Not too much to report, other than the fact that there is indeed a Stargate featured in the trailer, which means that they got at least that one detail right. What is interesting is the selection of people passing through the Stargate itself. Playable alien characters perhaps? Call me crazy, but ever since I was a little boy I've always wanted to be a relatively nondescript little grey dude. Is it finally my time? More »

Stargate Worlds Debut Trailer Airs Tonight

Mike Fahey — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:00:33 EST

Stargate fans who managed to find some small sliver of something reminiscent of the excellent SG-1 series in Stargate Atlantis (not me) are in for a treat this evening, as the first trailer for the upcoming MMO Stargate Worlds airs tonight with the mid-season premier of said show. Currently in development at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Stargate World promises an evolving galaxy filled with strange and exotic cultures you can shoot at.

"Stargate Worlds is about instant adventure in an epic, evolving universe," said Stargate Worlds studio head Dan Elggren. "That's what fans and gamers are going to see in this trailer."

After giving you some time to recover from the clip, on January 18th the Unlock The Gate sweepstakes begins, which will feature special codes given out during Atlantis every Friday that give fans a chance to have their name or likeness incorporated into the game. Look for the trailer tonight on SciFi at 10PM Eastern. More »

Stargate Worlds Next Year

Mike Fahey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:20:09 EDT

Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has been industriously tooling away in their secret underground bunker to bring us an MMORPG based off of the hit television show Stargate: SG-1. Originally announced back in January 2006, MMO supersite TenTonHammer reports that the game is now scheduled for a fourth quarter 2008 release. From Kevin Balentine, Cheyenne's senior marketing manager:

"We've got a playable version of the game inside of our building. I'm not prepared to release our beta schedule yet, but I can say that we're going to be releasing the game in the fourth quarter of next year. You can do the math and figure out when our beta program will be."

But math is hard! Tell you what, you guys send us a press release when the beta program info is available, and we'll go back to geeking out over the possibilities of an MMO with the potential to span an entire universe. More »

Stargate MMO Details Surface

lsmith — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:40:50 EST

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While there's still no confirmation on Richard Dean Anderson's involvement in the project, Cathode Tan directs readers to a Stargate site that's scored some details about the upcoming (and by upcoming we mean years away) MMO. Here's the scoop: The game will have multiple classes, will not be an FPS, a grouping system for missions/quests, a guild system and no death penalty. This is all pre-production/storyboard/conference room talk so how the Stargate MMO shapes up and changes remains to be seen. More »

Stargate SG-1 Goes MMO

lsmith — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:40:57 EST

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Fittingly on the heels of mentioning the debate between using existing IPs for an MMO or creating a new, living, breathing world comes the announcement that Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment reached a deal with MGM Interactive that will bring Stargate SG-1's universe to MMOs in the form of Stargate Worlds. Please, please, please let Richard Dean Anderson be a hero class. More »