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Posts Tagged ‘Star Trek: Online’

Star Trek Online: The Cardassians

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Atari has provided a Starfleet and Klingon Defense Force Intelligence Briefing as well as a short video on the Cardassian Empire.

While Starfleet considers the Cardassians a “warlike and xenophobic people,” the Klingons see them as “fierce warriors” who “fight with honor” and who are “worthy opponents in battle.

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Star Trek: Online Del Taco Promotion

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Atari is partnering with Del Taco to offer limited-edition collector’s cups with a bonus.

Visitors to Del Taco, the nation’s number two fast food restaurant, will get a free trial of Star Trek: Online with their soda when they buy the “macho-sized” drink.

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Star Trek: Online Open Beta Keys

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Fifty fans wishing to try the Open Beta of Star Trek: Online can each get a free Beta key to play from now through January 26.

Star Trek: Online has made fifty Beta keys available to readers of TrekToday and TrekBBS. To obtain one, a simple email request and a bit of luck will land the opportunity to test-drive the Star Trek: Online Open Beta.

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Star Trek Online: State Of The Game

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The developers of Star Trek: Online update players on the status of the game after the first week of “Open Beta.”

According to Star Trek: Online, the first week of Open Beta has gone very well. “The first week of Open Beta has been amazing! We have seen more signups and players than we ever imagined we could. So very many people have shown interest in Star Trek Online and logged in to play that we’ve actually had to scramble to support everyone. Our core engineers are this very second working like crazed technology wielding madmen to improve performance and stability across the board. We’re also adding a lot more hardware to accommodate our players.”

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Star Trek: Online Pricing Announced

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Fans waiting for Star Trek: Online to release now will know the subscription pricing for the MMORPG.

Players who take advantage of early limited time promotional offers that expire when Star Trek: Online releases on February 2 can save by pre-ordering the game and buying special lifetime and yearly memberships.

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Star Trek: Online Open Beta Launch

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Today, an open beta was launched by Atari for Star Trek: Online, the MMORPG which will be released in February.

Fans with open beta keys can explore the game from now through January 26, becoming either a Klingon warrior or joining Starfleet.

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Star Trek: Online Klingon Video

Monday, January 11th, 2010

A new promotional video has been posted for Star Trek: Online which features playing the game from the Klingon viewpoint.

The short, minute-and-a-half video opens with a shot of the Klingon homeworld. A Klingon warrior is seen bowing before a huge statue of Kahless, the ultimate Klingon warrior.

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Star Trek Online: Meeting Old Friends

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Star Trek: Online Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich revealed in a new video interview that players may run into familiar names and faces while playing Star Trek: Online.

Even though Star Trek: Online is set in the future from the time-frame most familiar to Star Trek fans, it will still be possible to reconnect with famous personalities from the past. “In the future, most of the characters that you know and love from the series, from the shows, maybe they’ve died, passed, moved on,” said Zinkievich, “but obviously it wouldn’t be a Star Trek game without time-travel so you may run into some of them in the past.”

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New Star Trek: Online Video

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

A new Star Trek: Online video has been posted, featuring familiar settings and old foes.

Players of Star Trek: Online will explore space, returning to places seen before, such as the planet hosting the Guardian of Forever, as well as facing familiar foes, such as the Borg Queen.

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Star Trek: Online Play Preview

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Reviewer Kyle Horner gives fans an idea of what to expect in the early stages of Star Trek: Online.

Star Trek: Online releases next months, and some are working their way through the game now, and sharing their experiences and thoughts on the game.

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New Star Trek: Online Video

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Fans awaiting the launch of Star Trek: Online in February have a new video to whet their appetites.

A short minute-long video features various Federation and alien ships, alien landscapes, battle debris above a planet, a space station similar to Deep Space Nine, the Klingon homeworld and, of course, plenty of battle scenes.

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Star Trek: Online On Trek Lore

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Star Trek: Online‘s Christine Thompson explains how the Star Trek: Online development team was able to keep up with multiple sources of information.

In addition to “official canon” which was aired, Star Trek: Online used sources such as novels and comic books when creating their Star Trek world.

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Star Trek Online: Ask Cryptic

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

The developers of Star Trek: Online have added another installment of Ask Cryptic, this one again featuring questions regarding the Klingons.

Part Two of Ask Cryptic: Klingons has been posted and questions were posted on topics such as tactics, advancement and social structure.

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Star Trek Online: New Video And New Ask Cryptic

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Star Trek: Online has just released a new video, The Veil of Space Part I, as well as a new version of Ask Cryptic.

In the new Star Trek: Online video, the USS Remembrance receives a distress call from an outpost which leads to the discovery of the body of a Federation geologist.

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Nimoy Joins Star Trek: Online Cast

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Not long ago, it was announced that the new Spock, Zachary Quinto, would be doing some voice work for Star Trek: Online. Now it has been announced that the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy, will also be providing voiceovers for the MMORPG.

Nimoy will be providing the voiceover for the introduction as well as for “key scenes and events in-game.” This in not Nimoy’s first foray into videogames. In the past, he has done voiceovers for Civilization IV as well as for several other Star Trek games.

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