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Star Trek Online Console Port Cools Its Nacelles

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.


March 18, 2010
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Better Days To Die Coming To Star Trek Online

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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.


February 27, 2010

Star Trek Online Review: A Piece Of The Action

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.


February 26, 2010

Battle The Borg In Star Trek Online

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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.


February 24, 2010

Star Trek MMO Log: The Final Frontier

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.


February 19, 2010
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Cryptic Considering A More ‘Meaningful’ Death Penalty For Star Trek Online?

Death in Star Trek Online seems to be a disappointing experience for its fans, lacking narrative oomph and encouraging unreasonably risky behaviour. The game’s executive producer says the studio is listening and considering a change.


February 17, 2010

Star Trek MMO Log, Stardate 2010.16

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.


February 16, 2010
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Cryptic Wants Star Trek Online Players To Explore Their Ships

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.


February 12, 2010

Star Trek Online Couldn’t Resist The Borg

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.


February 10, 2010

Star Trek MMO Log, Stardate 2010.09

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.