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Sunday Comics: Dead Island 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.
It’s no Neverwinter Nights, but the upcoming Neverwinter online game is still Dungeons & Dragons and it’s still Neverwinter. So a first decent look at the game’s engine since E3 (albeit via a rather cinematic trailer) is still in order.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
