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Star Trek Online hands-on sneak peak
 If behind your human exterior pumps the green blood of a Vulcan then there is no doubt that you have worked yourself into a frenzy over the release of Star Trek: Online. Star Trek: Online is set 30 years after the Star Trek: Nemesis movie. Cryptic has crafted a full back story which is available on www.startrekonline.com..jpg)
Gameplay is divided into two distinct arenas; namely space-based starship missions and ground-based away missions. The space missions put the player in the captain’ seat of a starship and, unlike the away missions, consist of controlling a single unit. Starships get unlocked according to the player’s rank and class. Engineers get massive cruisers, tactical officers get more agile assault ships and science officers get exploration vessels which pack less of a punch. Battles are intense and whether it’s against AI or PvP expect to walk away with at least a few cases of pierced hull.
.jpg) The away missions vary from planet to star base. In some cases repeating a mission reveals that the game system employs random generation of maps. This elevates replayability because one never knows what the setting or who the antagonists will be. Unlike space missions; away missions employs squad-based gameplay and these squads are either made up of players or a single player and his AI away team.
The main elements of MMORPG are still there; weapons do damage over time,.jpg) players can implement special abilities affecting other members of the squad and there is still a strong emphasis on picking up loot. Star Trek Online features instances and raids which come in various shapes and form which looks to limit monotonous game play and the need for grinding.
Check out the full review in PCFormat’s April issue.
Discuss this here.
Rabid Star Trek fans can curse Mike (Killerbyte on the forums) for playing this before them here. - Brett
Michael Reed
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Overclockers caught in cheating scandal, banned for life
 Four of the world’s top overclockers have been banned for life by
XtremeSystems.org and for one year by HWBOT for cheating in the recent
MSI Lords of Overclocking online competition. All were disqualified
from said competition
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Righthaven engaged in copyright trolling?
 Steve Gibson, the CEO of Righthaven, is taking on websites that are
illegally reposting content online by emulating patent trolls.
Righthaven is a new company that is buying up copyrights for newspaper
content posted online and then suing any blogs or sites that reproduce
that information illegally, which is apparently proving profitable for
the fledgling group
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Blizzard has embargoed all Wings of Liberty reviews
 Blizzard has introduced a global embargo on all StarCraft 2: Wings of
Liberty reviews, a move that is being reported by several sources
online, until after the game launches. According to Blizzard this is
mainly due to Battle.Net which the company would like reviewers to
experience in its entirety before publishing reviews
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UltraViolet the new DRM?
 There appears to be a new DRM (Digital Right Management) scheme on the
horizon, going by the name UltraViolet. Apparently backed by many of
the major players in the film and television industry, the official
site says that it is “designed to let consumers enjoy movies and TV shows without being locked into one specific format”
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Developer for female gamers launches
 Yesterday the formation of Silicon Sisters Interactive (SSI) was
announced. A Canada-based gaming company and the brainchild of Brenda
Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes, both of whom have been active
in the gaming industry for some time, Silicon Sisters aims to cater
specifically to female gamers
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Pinnacle makes offer to purchase Axiz
 Pinnacle Technology Holdings Limited (PTH) has made an offer to
purchase 100% of shares in Axis Technology (Pty) Ltd. Pinnacle’s aim is
to merge its solution focused distributor with Axiz which according to
Worgroup MD Doug Woolley will allow Worgroup to expand into new markets
as well as provide Axiz with Workgroups solution expertise
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Asus Crosshair IV Formula review
 The Asus Crosshair IV Formula is the first motherboard to arrive at the
PCF Ranch based on AMD’s new 890FX chipset. The 890FX is the flagship
of AMD’s 8-series chipsets and like its brethren lacks support for the
AM2+ socket/processors as well as DDR2 memory. AMD has given the 890FX
chipset a total of 38 PCI-E lanes which are split between four PCI-E
x16 slots which will have 8 lanes each, a single PCI-E x4 slot and two
PCI-E x1 slots.
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