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Star Trek Online’s lead ship designer, Adam Williams, has announced via Twitter he is exiting Cryptic to join Bungie, where he will be working on the firm’s new title.

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Perfect World and Cryptic have announced that Episode 4: The 2800 launch on Saturday, February 11. Those versed in their Trekkie lore should be familiar with what the 2800 are – a fleet of Dominion warships piloted by the Gamma Quadrant’s Jem’Hadar. During the Deep Space Nine series, Benjamin Sisko flew the USS Defiant toward a wormhole to intercept this fleet, whereby the prophets Sisko communed with intervened, and made sure the 2800 ships entered the wormhole never to be seen again. In the game, players will be coming to the aide of the Deep Space Nine space station, as the Jem’Hadar attack. Check out the trailer below.

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Crytpic’s celebrating the two-year anniversary of Star Trek Online by offering players some awesome goodies. Those who partake in the anniversary shindig, which kicked off yesterday and Monday, February 6 can take part in a special missions where the endgame sees you come away with an Enterprise-F ship. You need to be a level 50 to fly them, however.

More details here. Thanks, D’Toid.

It’s a happy day for those long on space-faring dreams but short on cash, as Cryptic has completed the transition of Star Trek Online from subscription to free to play. You can jump on board and have access to the whole game, although premium subs still exist for those who want to play multiple alts or start a guild, and run $14.99 per month. But to reiterate: you can be a vulcan, and fly a spaceship, and pay zero dollars. Well, what are you waiting for? G’wan, git.

Cryptic has outlined its plans for 2012 content updates for Star Tek Online, which goes free to play next week.

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Cryptic has is celebrating the free-to-play launch of Star Trek Online with a video of the updated opening cutscene all new players will experience after creating a character. Watch it for yourself below. STO goes F2P on January 17.

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After departing the Star Trek Online developer earlier this year, former executive producer Dan Stahl has returned to Cryptic Studios to lead a new Away Team working on the “Foundry”.

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Cryptic’s gone live with a blog post detailing Star Trek Online’s latest major update, Season 5: Call to Ruin.

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Cryptic Games’ parent company Perfect World has announced the free-to-play switch for Star Trek Online will happen on january 17. The switch is slightly later than the expected end of year targeted switch for the MMO, which first launched back in 2010.

Thanks, Videogamer.

Oh what a day. And it isn’t even over yet, even though it should have been a while ago. Let’s get these shorts out of the way so we can get back to BlizzCon stuff, shall we? We can always have our soup later.

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The shorts post is rather long today, so we’re going to go ahead and race to the finish with it.

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The latest developer blog entry for Star Trek Online has detailed the new Duty Officer System that will allow players to recruit and control the actions of their junior officers when the game goes free to play (F2P) later this year.

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Here’s a few tasty bits for you to consume.

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The executive producer of the Champions Online and Star Trek Online dev has announced he’s to boldly go on to pastures new but will Kling-on until the end of the month. No more puns, I promise.

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I am running out of quirky, esoteric ways to insert an off the wall header image in these shorts posts, so, today I have included one I took of a Hummingbird Moth visiting my batch of flowers on the deck.  Shorts are below.

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Cryptic’s detailed the F2P switch for Star Trek Online, detailing what free players and subscribers will get for their worth.

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Perfect World, the company who recently acquired Cryptic, has confirmed the studio intends to turn Star Trek Online into a F2P game by the end of this year.

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Cryptic has opened up on precisely how its acquisition by Perfect World will affect Champions Online and Star Trek Online players.

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It’s time for your second batch of shorts for the day.

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You did it. You made it to Friday. High five the nearest person and woop around the area you’re in now. And then read these shorts after the breaks. And then woop some more. Because there is never wrong with wooping.

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