Former Blizzard Producer and Flagship CEO Bill Roper has a new job. After the end of Flagship Studios, the famous American now works for Cryptic Studios as Design Director on Champions Online.

The MMO Star Trek Online (STO) had its first debut at Las Vegas' Star Trek Convention. Even though Cryptic discarded all of Perpetual's concepts for STO after the latter studio's demise, the game may come sooner than expected. The Cryptic Engine, suitable for both PC and console, already powers the MMOs City of Heroes and Champions Online. more...

Star Trek Online is alive and kickin'. Cryptic Studios, developers of City of Heroes/City of Villains and the upcoming Champions Online have ended the mysterious countdown on their website at the Comic Con yesterday by officially announcing that they have taken over the development of the MMO from the development studio Perpetual Entertainment, which had to be closed down earlier this year. more...

Cryptic Studios, developers of the MMO's City of Heroes and City of Villains, put a countdown timer in the games section on their website very recently, which will end on July 27th. In the background of the countdown you can see a picture that clearly has to do something with a science-fiction setting (asteroid-rain and planets can be seen). And this picture leads to speculations in the "Star Trek Online" fan-base now. more...

Cryptic Studios was founded to develop the superhero-themed massively multiplayer online game City of Heroes (and its twin game City of Villains). Today, Cryptic announced that it has sold its rights to the MMOG to publisher NCsoft. more...