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Cryptic Studios has revealed the next free expansion to Star Trek Online: Legacy of Romulus. Players take control of one of the last remaining Romulans following the destruction of Romulus and Remus. The Tal Shiar are cracking down on dissent and it is up to you to rally a revolt against an oppressive regime. The [...]
Archive for the ‘Star Trek Online’ Category
Star Trek Online Is Perfect World’s Best Product
February 21st, 2013 
Omali So life isn’t exactly perfect over at the Cryptic Studios offices right now. Long story short, a series of bad choices and oversights on the part of the Cryptic team lead to a very long thread and a long apology from producer Dan Stahl. I will allow Mr. Stahl to explain it in concise detail: [...]
Raptr: Star Trek Online Bundle Coming 9/4
August 30th, 2012 Omali Raptr is one of my favorite apps to have running in the background, next to xfire. Essentially it is a simple program which tracks how much time you spend in games on your PC, Xbox and PS3, tracks your achievements, and ranks you in each game based on time played and achievements earned. It also [...]
Cryptic Introduces Account Guard
July 4th, 2012 Omali Since the days when people began storing things in secret locations, there have been others waiting to pick the lock, steal the combination, and steal whatever was being hidden. In the age of the internet, keeping your personal data hidden becomes more difficult as the days go on, and developers have been on the assault [...]
Bioware Hit With Layoffs, The Old Republic
May 22nd, 2012 Omali Discussing layoffs after a game launches is akin to beating a dead horse. I should know, as the Human Resources director in my old company had brought in a live horse and a baseball bat to give the saying more meat (or to be blunt about it, depending on your flavor of pun). The Old [...]
Lockboxes Illegal? Cryptic Would Rather Dump Your Country
May 15th, 2012 Omali It’s been almost two years since Bill Roper has had anything to do with Cryptic Studios, but with some of the recent money-related decisions made by the developer, you would never know he’d left. Not long ago, Cryptic introduced lockboxes, cash shop items that have the chance at offering valuable items to the players who [...]
Star Trek Online’s PvP Sucks, Could Be Removed, Says Cryptic
May 13th, 2012 Omali I don’t think I can be any clearer on this point. You the players don’t like it, we the developers don’t like it and all the data we pull from the servers backs up the statement as well. Now, we could start discussing why PVP is the way it is. There are lots of reasons, [...]
Star Trek Online Early Access Begins January 5th
January 4th, 2012 Omali Set your sonic screwdriver to maximum extermination! Sorry, wrong franchise. As announced last year, Star Trek is Cryptic’s second title to make the transition to free to play, although the wait may feel like forever and a day. If only there was a way for Cryptic to allow past subscribers a chance to get into [...]
Atari: Star Trek Online Free To Play? Over Our Dead Bodies
November 10th, 2011 Omali Atari and I have never been on the best of terms. I believe I referred to Atari on a website that is not MMO Fallout, as an empty shell of a company that not only couldn’t keep itself on the NASDAQ stock listing, had a failed European branch, and has undergone more cosmetic surgery to [...]
Cryptic Rushed Star Trek Because Of Strict License Deadlines
October 7th, 2011 Omali Good news, fervent defenders of Star Trek Online. The guys over at the STOked podcast managed to snag an interview with Stephen D’angelo, Executive Producer of Star Trek Online at Cryptic Studios. In the interview, which you can view below (it starts at 11:20), D’angelo talks about the deadlines that Cryptic faced when developing the [...]
