Cryptic Studios unveils Star Trek Online, launches website

by Ross Miller { Jul 28th 2008 at 9:30AM }

With the intergalactic cat already out of the bag this weekend, Cryptic Studios has officially announced Star Trek Online and unveiled a website for the in-development MMO. The developer has also released a handful of screenshots and promises to reveal gameplay footage at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention on August 10 (there's a countdown on the STO site if you need something to stare at for the next 13 days). For those who can't make the convention, or decide to stay home because your prosthetic Vulcan ears didn't look just right, Cryptic will be streaming the presentation online.

Gallery: Star Trek Online

[Via Massively]

Tags: breakingnews, cryptic, cryptic-studios, star-trek, star-trek-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jakka (Not sure why he got banned?) @ Jul 28th 2008 9:51AM

Confirmed for 2015.

gumby @ Jul 28th 2008 9:52AM

awesome..wonder what the release window is looking like for this

gumby @ Jul 28th 2008 9:52AM

awesome..wonder what the release window is looking like for this

Haggard @ Jul 28th 2008 10:04AM

Level 4 redshirt LFP!

makishima @ Jul 28th 2008 10:08AM

Thank you for making my Monday bearable sir, that was full of win.

Dustin @ Jul 28th 2008 10:07AM

Info for Star Trek Online has been available for a while - they've had beta sign-ups for over a year now, I believe.

makishima @ Jul 28th 2008 10:10AM

You might be thinking of this Star Trek Online
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Online
It was being developed for a while by another company and during their betas the license was pulled because...well frankly the game was friggen terrible. I hope Cryptic can do something with it.

Dustin @ Jul 28th 2008 10:32AM

Yep, that's the one I was thinking of.
Thanks for the correction! I didn't mean to come off as rude.

Love ya Joystiq!

Thranx @ Jul 29th 2008 1:44PM

Perpetual Studios was developing Star Trek Online and then went under. The rights to the license was purchased by Cryptic, and many of the ex-employees were hired into Cryptic. It was assumed they were continuing the project, but now this makes it official.

What will be interesting to find out is if they're looking at a realistic approach or if they're sticking with the shift that Perpetual was starting to make towards a casual playstyle with a more cartoony look. Ugh.

comtar @ Jul 28th 2008 10:27AM

I think all Chinese farmers should be Ferengi.

brandon @ Jul 28th 2008 11:32AM

LOL! So true...

beSt @ Jul 28th 2008 10:29AM

I'm glad someone has finally continued development on this title. I've been waiting for it for ages!

Saria the Cat @ Jul 28th 2008 11:46AM

I could never get into Star Trek for some reason. Maybe it was just a tad too cheesy. I am a fan of other sci-fi things, though. But I can still see many people converting their lives to digital when STO comes out.

Broseph @ Jul 28th 2008 11:53AM

same here

maybe I didn't watch enough episodes or something, but there seemed to me to be too much deliberating. Like 80% delibertion 20% excitement.

As for cheesy, im on the starwars side of the fence, so no comment lol im pretty sure SW is worse

WorMzy @ Jul 28th 2008 12:19PM

Star Trek: Armada was pretty awesome, hopefully this will be like that.

The only Star Trek game I've played since that would be Star Trek: Tactical Assault on the DS, which gave me motion sickness. XD

FSK405K @ Jul 28th 2008 2:32PM

If STO is a combat-oriented game, .. . . [sigh], then it's really just Wing Commander with a Star Trek paint job. I want to be able to travel through time, decide the fate of a planet's population, investigate cures to weird diseases, negotiate peace talks between competing genocidal races, etc.

Niallers @ Jul 28th 2008 12:20PM

Set Phasers to......LAG!

mocax @ Jul 28th 2008 12:55PM

Isn't STO a wrestling move?

Hardcore @ Jul 28th 2008 1:00PM

I've remember seeing artwork from this game back when it was being developed by Perpetual and it looked hella more impressive than these screenshots.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Sprint2Final_sShots_0023_obRm02m.jpg

Ordeith @ Jul 28th 2008 1:17PM

Should have called it: Worlds of Star Trek

Halwende @ Jul 28th 2008 5:44PM

Happy it's coming but I'm not sure I like the idea of it being in the "future" of the universe, I would have preferred a LOTRO type approach where you could have a main quest with Picard :)

Plus: "Powered by the Cryptic Engine, Star Trek® Online will be developed for both console and PC formats." ...console? Oh man...