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Crytpic Studios dangled some interstellar combat footage as well as screenshots and concept art for its Star Trek Online massively multiplayer role playing game. The footage was revealed at a ceremony presided over by Spock actor and Star Trek film director Leonard Nimoy at a Star Trek convention last week.
Check it out here.

We all know online gaming– World of Warcaft, Lord of the Rings Online, and all those other immersive, sprawling time suckers– can get pretty addictive, and some of us are more addicted than others.
Well if you do your compulsive online gaming on a Mac, here’s something that might help: an application that disables your machine’s [...]

CDC Games, a pioneer of the “free-to-play, pay for merchandise” micropayments model for online gaming has announced that its upcoming title, based on the popular Digimon franchise from Japan, has been ranked number one by Chinese players via online recommendation on the most popular Chinese search engine, g.baidu.com.
The Digimon online game is scheduled for release [...]

Interesting tidbit from the World News Network… they claim that in the Asia Pacific region, online activity is on the uptick with online gaming leading the way, while online video and music fall to the wayside due to rampant piracy.
Hm. Maybe online audio and video execs could learn something from the gaming industry about how [...]

Now that DC’s got some of its self-respect back, what with Batman: The Dark Knight making all sorts of noise all over the place, they’re launching DC Universe Online.
It’s a make-your-own-hero (or villain) sort of massively multiplayer role playing game, and it’s been three years in the making. It will be available to Windows PC [...]

World of Warcraft subscribers can now opt for additional account security by purchasing a little gadget at the Blizzard Store for $6.50.
The gadget is a random code generator that users enter into an additional password screen they can use to better protect their WOW accounts. The random codes will only be valid once.

What is Qore? It’s a bit like a gamers’ magazine, a bit like a podcast, a bit like a website.
It’s basically exclusive content that Sony wants its PS3 owners to subscribe to via the online Sony Playstation Network and will feature galleries, trailers, interactive stuff, and even ads, in addition to “a few other surprises”.
Episodes [...]

Sandra Day O’Connor, 78, USA’s first female Supreme Court Justice, wants kids to stop playing video games and start learning about their Judiciary system.
How? By playing video games, of course.
In particular, she’d like kids to start playing Our Courts, the video game she’s helping to create, which is aimed specifically to help kids learn about [...]

Today I have for you a couple of interesting virtual career paths. Either one, or both, if you so choose, can be explored via two online games you can play for free.
Career path one: economist. Manipulate markets, tweak around with the laws of supply and demand and find yourself enjoying this simple yet fun casual [...]

You might not have noticed for all the hype over GTA4’s monster release, but Funcom’s Age of Conan massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) has been quite the blockbuster as well, passing the 400,000 unit mark in just a few days. That ranks it among the best-selling PC games of all time.
And the critics seem impressed [...]