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Cold Call

1 September, 2010 (12:45) | Gaming | By: Alan

This Saturday debuted a new kind of content for Star Trek Online, and I think, possibly a turning point for the game.
That content was the first of the new weekly episodes.  These episodes are released once a week, and each builds on the last to tell a specific story.  In this case, you find yourself [...]

Return to Warcraft

31 August, 2010 (12:22) | Gaming | By: Alan

I’ve always quite liked my MMOs, although surprisingly when its come to fantasy RPGs I’ve tended to play more of the single player games in the form of the likes of Oblivion.
I had previously dabbled with World of Warcraft, but new seasons of The Guild always make me want to give it another go.  On [...]

Star Trek Online Engineering Update – August 2010

26 August, 2010 (12:06) | Gaming | By: Alan

One of the really nice things about Star Trek Online is that the developers try and do monthly Engineering Reports, which detail upcoming changes and content that are in testing, development, design or on hold.  They’re a really great source of information, and its nice for the community to know exactly what’s being worked on.
The [...]

Star Trek Online Season 2 Sneak Peak

21 July, 2010 (21:51) | Gaming | By: Alan

As is customary for MMOs, Star Trek Online is currently near to releasing its next major free content expansion.  However prior to its release on the live server (Holodeck), much of the content is currently on the test server (Tribble) so that the userbase can beta test the new content and find any critical bugs.
So [...]

Controversy in Star Trek Online

15 June, 2010 (12:43) | Gaming | By: Alan

When Star Trek Online came out, I first had a trial account (as I wasn’t sure if it’d run on my PC or not). Once that expired and I needed a full retail key, I went to Steam and looked at the options available. There I could get the game, or for an [...]

Welcome to Deep Space Nine

30 April, 2010 (08:31) | Gaming | By: Alan

Progressing through the game of Star Trek Online, sees you move from different galactic sectors.  Starting out at the heart of the Federation near the Sol system, as you gain levels you move throughout the galaxy encountering the Klingon systems, Romulan Space and others.
Having recently made it past Commander level and to Captain and now [...]

The Doomsday Machine

16 March, 2010 (21:39) | Gaming | By: Alan

So typically, the night after I make a blog post hoping for more Classic Trek fan-pleasing stuff turning up in Star Trek Online, look what I bump into.  Awesome
Sadly it went down a little easy, as long as you avoided the front of it whenever it fired.  You get special torpedoes which when [...]

“A Question.”

16 March, 2010 (14:13) | Gaming | By: Alan

Its things like this that make tie-in games great.  Throwing in things that are blatantly fan-pleasing may be an easy move but there’s no denying its also hugely effective
This mission ticks all the boxes.  Miral Paris (daughter of Voyager’s Tom Paris and Belanna Torres) has been kidnapped by genetically-modified Klingons.  Said Klingons then [...]

Star Trek Online Wishlist

5 March, 2010 (15:15) | Gaming | By: Alan

So I’ve been playing the game for around a week now.   With my buddy key expired, I’ve gone straight out and bought the collector’s edition from Steam (since I figured a download retailer was the quickest way to a new key to get me back into the game).  I opted to pay the extra [...]

Star Trek Online

24 February, 2010 (13:43) | Gaming | By: Alan

I’ve followed the development of this game for a while.  Regular readers will know that I do like:
a) Star Trek
and
b) MMOs
so really, Star Trek Online was a no-brainer for me.
Sadly, then the minimum specs came out, and I realised my PC was very much scraping the bottom of the barrel and may not run it [...]