MMOs

In the first post in this series, I gave a brief overview of the game. In the second, I covered the sorts of character and ship customization you can do. In this post, I’ll be showing off space combat in Star Trek Online. Thanks to Youtube’s awesome annotation feature, I was able to point out … Read more

Every article about Star Trek Online is going to discuss the character creator. Cryptic is justly famous for the extreme customization it allows in its games. In City of Heroes, designing a hero (or villain) was a game in itself. Champions Online took that one step further, allowing you unprecedented ability to customize your powers … Read more

That’s my ship, a customized Miranda-class light cruiser, warping away from Deep Space 9. I’d gone there to look at some advanced weapons from the Gamma quadrant I’d heard might be acquired, for a price. I wasn’t so busy that I couldn’t relax on the upper level and watch ships head through the wormhole while … Read more

I’ve just learned that Star Trek Online is now in Open Beta! The weekend closed beta patch is being backed out, I guess it wasn’t stable enough. There will be a less sweeping patch before Open Beta goes live. The title of this post is an in-joke referring to the odd, unexplained times when Leonard … Read more