If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! We already knew Star Trek Online, like many massively multiplayer online games of late, was going free-to-play. But now we know the exact date on which the event will occur. Stardate January 17th of next year, to be precise. [...]
Good news for Star Trek gaming fans who didn’t fancy forking out a monthly subscription to partake of Cryptic’s MMORPG. Star Trek Online is set to change over to a free-to-play model later this year, meaning you’ll be able to download and access almost all the game content for free. However, there will be some [...]
Atari and Cryptic Studios have announced that the Season 3: Genesis content update is now available for MMORPG Star Trek Online. A number of major new features are introduced by the update, including Borg technology which can now be integrated into existing starships. Sector space has also been revamped to give it a more realistic [...]
Cryptic Studios has announced that the new content update for its ship and ground combat MMOG Star Trek Online is now available. No charge will be made for Season Two: Ancient Enemies, which introduces a number of new races, battles and all new episodes amongst other features. There are eight new episodes designed for the [...]
Cryptic has just released Season One: Update Two, a major patch for Star Trek Online. The patch for its MMORPG, which was released at the beginning of the year, adds a substantial number of new features. A new system of accolades tracks your progress and achievements in, for example, eliminating a certain amount of one [...]
Atari and developer Cryptic have announced a new loyalty system for its Star Trek Online massively multiplayer game, to help keep subscribers playing the game. And a demo to entice those who’ve yet to sample Star Trek Online’s combination of space combat and first-person shooter style away missions. The demo goes live at the end [...]
With Star Trek Online already launched in the US, the firms behind the game Cryptic Studios and Atari are turning their attention to the rest of the world with London being the target this weekend. The distributor of the game, Namco Bandai and Atari will be in London not only to promote the game that [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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