Neowin News Feed for: Star trek

Microsoft adds Star Trek Easter egg to Bing.com

John Callaham — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:44:23 +0100

Microsoft has announced that, in its latest tie-in to the movie Star Trek Into Darkness, it has added an Easter Egg in its Bing.com website if you type a secret phrase in the search bar. Read more...

Star Trek Into Darkness app finally makes Windows Phone 8 debut

John Callaham — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:01:28 +0100

The Star Trek Into Darkness app, which was released a few months ago for iOS and Android smartphones, has finally made its Windows Phone 8 debut just a couple of weeks before the movie comes out. Read more...

BlackBerry inventor wants to make Star Trek tricorder a reality

Stephen Robinson — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:48:22 +0000

Mike Lazaridis, inventor of the BlackBerry and Vice Chairman of the company, has started a quantum technology fund that aims to bring the Star Trek medical tricorder into reality. Read more...

Interview: We chat with the creator of the new Windows 8 LCARS app

John Callaham — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:20:35 +0000

We have a brief chat with David Haddad, who has created a new Windows 8 app with a number of features and with a user interface that's designed to look like Star Trek's LCARS UI. Read more...

From The Forums: Windows 9 UI as Star Trek's LCARS

John Callaham — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:54:07 +0000

In our latest From The Forums feature, we have a screenshot uploaded by one of Neowin's readers that shows how Windows 9's Modern UI might look on the Enterprise as part of its LCARS design. Read more...

Giveaway: Star Trek USB Flash Drives by Mimoco [UPDATE with winners]

Christopher White — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 03:35:03 +0000

Want a free Star Trek Mimobot? Then enter the drawing and try to win one of two 8 gigabyte USB thumb drives we're giving out to our loyal readers! Read more...

Latest Google doodle animates Star Trek

John Callaham — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:01:47 +0100

Google has posted up yet another cool interactive doodle in place of its front page logo today that celebrates the 46th anniversary of the original Star Trek TV series. Read more...

E3 2012: Official Star Trek game site launches

Byron Hinson — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:11:57 +0100

The official Star Trek website for the upcoming game which is based on the 2009 film reboot has launched. The site will be your go to place for screenshots, interview and trailers for the game. Read more...

Star Trek Online MMO game now free to play

Andy Weir — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:09:46 +0000

Players of the Star Trek Online massively multiplayer game hoped that it would follow in the footsteps of other MMORPGs in becoming free to play - and now the game's creators have made it so. Engage! Read more...

Star Trek Tricorder X Prize competition launches

John Callaham — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:09:26 +0000

At CES 2012, the X Prize Foundation announced the first phase of a new competition that will award $10 million to the person or team who can create a real world version of Star Trek's tricorder. Read more...

Google+ bans Captain Kirk? Sort of [Update]

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:00:15 +0100

Captain James T. Kirk has faced Klingons, Romulans and Tribbles but the actor that portray's Star Trek's original captain, William Shatner, was apparently not able fight off Google's Terms of Service. Tech Crunch reports today... Read more...

E3 2011: Eyes on with Star Trek

John Callaham — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:02:03 +0100

Back in the 1990's there were a ton of Star Trek PC titles released from several different publishers including Interplay, Microprose and Simon and Schuster Interactive. Later Activision got the rights to all of the... Read more...

New J.J. Abrams-based Star Trek game announced

John Callaham — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:06:53 +0100

Fans of the 2009 reboot of the Star Trek sci-fi franchise by director J.J. Abrams will be getting a proper game adaptation in the summer of 2012. That's the date for the release of Star... Read more...

P2 Out As Star Trek Online Developer

toadeater — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:14:54 +0000

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P2 Entertainment - formerly Perpetual Entertainment - has ceased development on Star Trek Online, according to multiple sources at the San Francisco based developer. The news does not, however, mean that the game is canceled.... Read more...

MMO fansite WarCry acquires 2nd Star Trek Online Screenshot

Yusuf Mohamud — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:43:34 +0000

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Last week, the popular MMO fansite known as WarCry conducted an interview with Daron Stinnett of P2 Entertainment, Executive Producer of Star Trek Online. The interview covered widely discussed topics such as the game's more... Read more...

First In-game Screenshot of Star Trek Online

Yusuf Mohamud — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:33 +0000

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Entry 5.0 of Star Trek Online's DevLog debuts the first ever in-game screenshot of Star Trek Online. It features a starship orbiting a planet and showcases the "Interaction System" -- a set of commands which... Read more...

Star Trek Legacy Q/A

Todd Tanner — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:18:40 +0100

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Gaming Target has a nice interview with Gary Conti from Mad Doc Software talking about the upcoming Star Trek Legacy RTS game for the PC and Xbox 360. Here is a small part of the... Read more...

Bethesda announces release dates for Star Trek games

Todd Tanner — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:26:54 +0100

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Bethesda Softworks® announced today that the first title in their STAR TREK lineup, STAR TREK®: Encounters for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, will ship to North American retail stores this week. The release of Encounters... Read more...

Star Trek fans rejoice! Captain(s) on deck!

Todd Tanner — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:59:21 +0100

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Bethesda Softworks has once again proven to the billions of Star Trek fans worldwide that they do, indeed care about the franchise. Bethesda, after releasing one of the best PC RPG's in recent memory in... Read more...

Bethesda nabs Star Trek writers for upcoming games

Todd Tanner — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:27:14 +0100

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Bethesda Softworks announced today that acclaimed STAR TREK writer Dorothy "D.C." Fontana, with her partner, Derek Chester, have collaborated to write the scripts for its upcoming titles, STAR TREK: Legacy and STAR TREK: Tactical Assault.... Read more...