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Cryptic have poured heart and soul into Star Trek Online over the last year, so what better way to celebrate its first birthday to look back over the impressive list of new features and content introduced in the interim?

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Following news last week that Champions Online lifetime subs have now been reduced by 20 percent to £240, Cryptic’s confirmed that the basic game is now completely free to play.

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Cryptic has released Season 3 for Star Trek Online.

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Cryptic’s reopened lifetime subscriptions to Champions Online, despite the MMO being on the verge of going free-to-play.

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Cryptic just confirmed that superhero game Champions Online is to become to latest MMO to switch to a free-to-play model.

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Cryptic boss Jack Emmert has admitted the studio has been guilty of building “hundreds of hours of mediocre content” for its MMOs, and that Neverwinter, the co-op D&D RPG announced yesterday, needed to represent a huge increase in quality for the company.

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Bill Roper has announced his departure from Cryptic Studios.

He was CEO of the firm for the last two years.

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Star Trek Online executive producer Craig Zinkievich has announced he’s left Cryptic Studios, but has assured tons more content’s on the way to the game.

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Cryptic’s confirmed to Videogamer that the console versions of Star Trek: Online have been canned.

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Cryptic’s claimed Star Trek Online beta numbers have boldly gone where they didn’t expect them to.

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Namco Bandai, the UK publisher for Star Trek Online, today revealed details surrounding the game’s pre-order incentives, including being able to partake in the open beta from January 12-26.

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Star Trek Online will kick off with a Borg battle when the game launches on February 2. Exciting, huh?

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You can now pre-purchase Star Trek Online from Steam ahead of the Cryptic MMO’s February 2 launch.

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Cryptic Studios producer Craig Zinkievich has told NowGamer that Star Trek Online may get trading in future updates. Sounds a bit EVEie.

“Some of the biggest [ideas for additions] were allowing players to play as neutral factions (like traders) or play as an officer on another player’s ship,” he said.

First off, though, players are going to be Kirk-alikes only.

“We… knew that we wanted to get the game out in a set amount of time, and that we wanted to make sure that we delivered a deep and rich experience rather than a whole bunch of thin ones,” he added.

“So we focused on making the Starship Captain experience.”

The MMO’s now been confirmed for a February ship.

Atari’s put out a movie and shots for Champions Online’s Blood Moon update, which released yesterday in celebration of Hallowe’en. Get the lot after the break.

The new content pitches super-players against Arch Lich Takofanes and his zombie things.

The video features Cryptic’s Bill Roper, and other devs from the studio, explaining what the Sam Hell’s going on.

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The Star Trek Online closed beta has begun, as you can see from the PR after the break.

It’s been running for two days, in fact.

If you want to get involved, you can still sign up here.

The game’s out early next year.

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IncGamers has live 24 new shots of Star Trek Online.

It’s going to be the most antcipated MMO for next year. And from these new shots, you can see why.

It’s going to be out in Q1 2010, hopefully.

Cryptic’s Craig Zinkievich has told VG that Star Trek Online’s keyed in for a first quarter 2010 launch, and that the MMO’s beta is on the verge of launching.

“Without giving you the date, which I’m not allowed to give out or else the marketing people will come and smack me in the back of the head, I can tell you that the game will be out the first quarter of 2010,” he said.

Zinkievich added: “The closed beta is really just right around the corner. I think that there’s a press release that’s going to go out in just a couple of days.”

Good news. Thanks, Joystiq.

Star Trek Online dev chief Craig Zinkievich has admitted to Eurogamer that the whole process of bringing MMOs to current consoles is problematic, to say the least.

“I’ll be honest, the business part of bringing MMOs to consoles has been really sticky,” he said.

“Trying to get Sony, trying to get Microsoft to really understand MMOs; really understand what needs to happen for MMOs, and then figure out all the business aspects of those games, has really been a difficulty for all of the MMO developers.”

Star Trek Online is planned for a console release; as was Cryptic’s just-released Champions Online.

Don’t hold your breath just yet.

Massively’s posted five new screens of Cryptic’s Star Trek Online, Borgs and all.

The MMO’s out next year, and is likely to cause one of the largest geekgasms in modern gaming history.

Hit the link to see why.