Cryptic Studios Developing Star Trek Online

It’s official.  Cryptic Studios is developing Star Trek Online.

CRYPTIC STUDIOS LICENSES RIGHTS TO PRODUCE STAR TREK ONLINE

Trek Fans Worldwide Are Invited to MMO Gamplay Reveal at Annual Star Trek Convention August 10, 2008 or Via Live Webcast at http://www.startrekonline.com/

Los Gatos, Calif. – Cryptic Studios™, a leading developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), announced today that it has secured the global rights to develop and publish Star Trek® Online, a massively multiplayer online game based on the legendary Star Trek franchise, from CBS Consumer Products.

Cryptic will unveil the first Star Trek Online gameplay footage as well as details about this highly anticipated MMO at the annual Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas on Sunday, August 10, 2008. Trek fans from around the globe can also view the event live via webcast at http://www.startrekonline.com/.

Interested participants can register today for the Star Trek Online webcast and to sign up for the STO community by visiting http://www.startrekonline.com/.

Star Trek is up there in my top 5 favorite things in the universe along with Final Fantasy, Disney, sushi, and JRPG’s…  Just looking at the screenshots gave me goosebumps.  Let’s just cross our fingers that it doesn’t run into problems again.  And when they show gameplay footage at the Star Trek convention next month, I’ll be refreshing the internet page obsessively, I guarantee it.  One of the interesting things I read on their site is that it’s being planned for PC AND console.  We’ll see how that goes…