Star Trek Online - To be Revealed Shortly

More than one cat jumped out of the bag it seems, from Blue's News.

The hints and clues about Star Trek Online are getting thick enough to cut with a knife. The schedule for the upcoming Las Vegas Star Trek Convention lists the following event for August 10: "1:30 PM 'Star Trek Online Revealed" indicating when the game will be revealed, presuming you don't count when it was first revealed going on four years ago (story). Meanwhile, the countdown timer on the Cryptic Studios Website (story) is down to a little under 13 hours, so the announcement that Cryptic is the studio that picked up development of the game from Perpetual Entertainment is likely to come in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Even that poorly kept secret is now moot, as WarCry Network (thanks Ant Joystiq) has dug up a job listing for Cryptic Studios that lets Schrödinger's cat out of the box by saying "Cryptic Studios, a leading independent developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online games, including the upcoming Champions Online and Star Trek Online, is expanding …"  and

Offical web-site is now up and running. Game footage to follow soon.

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/.

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