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Star Trek Online Free-to-Play Now Open To Everyone

6:45AM January 18, 2012 | Mike Fahey

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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Retired Captains Can Now Play Star Trek Online For Free

9:15AM January 6, 2012 | Mike Fahey

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.


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What Free-To-Play Means To Star Trek Online Players

4:20AM September 7, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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 Going Free-To-Play

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9:30AM September 2, 2011 | Tracey Lien

Cryptic Studio’s MMO Star Trek Online will be going free-to-play by the end of the year, following in the footsteps of other MMOs that have recently switched from the upfront payment model to the free-to-play model. More »


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Atari Dumps City Of Heroes, Star Trek Online Devs Cryptic

8:00AM May 18, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

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)]


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Bill Roper Departs Cryptic

10:45PM August 18, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

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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Isn’t It A Little Early For A Star Trek Online Winback Weekend?

8:00AM May 9, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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 »


Are Video Games Doing Outer Space Justice?

4:30AM May 8, 2010 | Mike Fahey

This is no video game. This is an image of a gigantic baby star inside a galactic bubble 4300 light years from Earth, captured by Europe’s Herschel space telescope. Has video game space ever been so beautiful? More »


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Star Trek Online Console Port Cools Its Nacelles

1:30PM April 8, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

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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Better Days To Die Coming To Star Trek Online

8:20AM March 18, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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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 »