
Cryptic Studios was nice enough to send over a series of new screenshots from their early 2010 title, Star Trek Online. Currently the game looks like it is getting a lot more polish as it goes through the final stages of development. Now if we could just get a price point, all would be well.
Check the jump for the rest of the screens.

Atari and Cryptic Studios have finally put a date on their upcoming sci-fi MMORPG, Star Trek Online. People will be able to beam up to the Federation or Klingon side of battle come February 2nd, 2010.
Star Trek Online is set to offer players a full Star Trek experience, including captaining their own ship, creating their customized character, and even the possibility of creating their own race. Star Trek Online will contain both ship to ship combat, as well as away missions which will give on foot combat.
No word on whether there will be PvP battles, or even a pricing scheme for that matter. We have heard something about two tiers, with a free basic tier and a premium tier, but nothing concrete on these details. Also, Star Trek Online is releasing right on the heels of Mass Effect 2. While the two titles sit in different game types, they attack the same genre, which might cause some problems.
Check the jump for more info from the Press release.

With Star Trek Online going into its closed beta phase, Atari and Cryptic were nice enough to send over a new batch of screenshots from the latest build of the game. So far, the game is looking really good for an early build, and I am trying to find out who I have to buy off to get into the closed beta.
Check the jump for a dozen screens from Star Trek: Online.

No, I don’t have a Ghostbusters quote on hand to work into the post title. Please post your own in comments. Maybe the one about cats and dogs sleeping together.
IGN has posted what looks like an official Atari press release that details the multiple issues that the PS3 patch addresses. Available now, the patch increases the resolution on the PS3 to match what is seen in the 360 version of Ghostbusters. More importantly, “freezing issues” have been fixed. One assumes this covers the most notable glitch, the Game Video Locks Up During The Library Scene bug.
I did not know of this one, but apparently some messiness caused a couple of multiplayer Trophies from unlocking. That has also been fixed.
What the patch does not repair, I’m guessing, is the off-putting control scheme, the unnecessary rehash of events and dialogue from the first movie, and the clumsy did-you-miss-it saving error that Mike has alluded to on the podcast.
The press release AGAIN hypes up Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd as having “penned” the game’s script, even though Ramis revealed to ToyFare magazine some time ago that all they did was punch-up an existing script.
Source: IGN
After many, many months of complaining by US based fans, CD Projekt has finally released a patch that is considered the Director’s Cut of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition.
When The Witcher was first released in Europe, it was a rather raw game, with a fair amount of female nudity in the game, in the form of playing cards that you received when you would bed a female. However, when the game came to the US, Atari felt that there was no way that Americans could possibly handle the sight of bare breasts in a video game, so they decided to grab screenshots of Stephen and censor those cards. Well maybe not with Stephen Munn’s face, but they did censor them with “strategic covering”
With two years past, it seems that America is finally ready for some video game nudity, and the patch will give US players the same game that the European audience has been playing for some time now. Yay. Of course, people could have just imported a European version of the game, but now you don’t have to worry about currency conversion!
Check the jump for the full press release plus links to the download if you already own the game.
In the latest video game iteration of the original Ghostbusters universe in almost 19 years, and to coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the original movie, Terminal Reality has resurrected one of the most beloved cult-followed movies to be pried from the heads of Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd. Have they crafted a phoenix, or did they manage only to dig up some zombies? Strap on a proton pack, and let’s get to bustin’ some ghosts and this review.
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I was pretty surprised to find a picture of my wallet in our tips e-mail. For a moment I panicked a little and thought it was a ransom note. Then I remembered that I had thrown the wallet away just a few days ago. After I received this wallet in December of 2007, it lasted for somewhat more than a year and a half of service. I wrote about it back then. I have now been forced to retire this in favor of a newer wallet, which I think was a Christmas 2008 gift.
TinyMeat is a brand of wallet that UrbanRetro is now selling. The wallet you see here is one of the designs which were available on Etsy until very recently when they ran afoul of Etsy’s fees. Last time I checked we were waiting for them to scratch enough money together to get the store on Etsy reopened, so let’s look at this as your chance to help.
What’s weird is I’m sure when I got the wallet before, it was coming from the US. I’m not sure how much it costs to have one of these shipped from the UK to the US, but the base price is just shy of 13 Euros.

On a business trip to Detroit, a couple of co-workers and I were grabbing a bite to eat on our way out of town and happened to walk by indie music/video/game store when something caught my eye: an original Atari VCS box. I quickly scanned the rest of the store front’s window and saw both the original PS2, its’ silver cousin, as well as a NES Action Pack. Oh, and a Gamecube rounded out that motley crew. Seems that some older systems can still be found outside of exorbitant eBay listings. Unfortunately, there wasn’t time to stop into Flipside to check their going prices. Alas, the store seems to have mixed reviews on Google which may hinder the prospect of a cheap find. A couple close-up images after the jump.
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The newest Ghostbusters game has been getting a lot of early buzz, due to getting all four ghostbusters back for the voice over work and visual identities. We have also had a ton of screens and videos for the console and PC versions of the game.
Today, Atari showed some lover for the DS version of the game, releasing half a dozen pictures of Ghostbusters in action on the popular handheld gaming device. The graphics seem to follow the cartoony riff that is shown in the Wii version and it looks like you will be going through different type of game missions. The screens show off some of the proton pack action, and there also seems to be some driving sequences as well.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game is coming to the Nintendo DS as well as all other platforms on June 16th, 2009. Hit the jump to check out the other Ghostbusters DS screens.
Up till this point, we have received a lot of video footage for Ghostbusters The Video Game, but it has been for the 360, PS3 and PC versions of the game. Now we finally have some extended footage of not only the game itself, but some of the control mechanisms that will occur in the game. Ghostbusters The Video Game is coming to all platforms on June 16th, 2009.