There’s some good news on the internet today for people who always wanted to try that Star Trek MMO, but didn’t actually want to pay to play it. Star Trek Online is now free. Of course, there is still a cash shop and people can pay $14.99 to become a Gold Member and have access more »

Paramount Digital Entertainment is boldly going where lots of men have gone before, E3 2011, to unveil their newest game Star Trek. A teaser trailer for the game was showcased on June 8, 2011 at Sony Computer Entertainment of America’s keynote address showing a bit about what you can expect in this new title.

One of the day’s first announcements came from Paramount Digital Entertainment. There isn’t a lot of information to pull from, but Paramount Digital Entertainment is making a Star Trek game for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The game is expected to be released in the summer of 2012. Star Trek will have a co-op option that puts Spock and Kirk side-by-side throughout the campaign.

It’s been a very long time since Star Trek has had a decent board or tabletop game, but WizKids hopes to cash in the success of the 2009 movie reboot with Star Trek Expeditions when the game comes out June 15. 2011.

For the first time, a video game composer has won a Grammy for his game-related work.

Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu” took top honors in the 53rd Grammy Awards in the category of Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists. In addition, Calling All Dawns, the album on which “Baba Yetu” is featured, won the Grammy for “Best Classical Crossover Album.”

Christopher Tin’s sweeping song is the main theme for Civilization IV, which it was written for. The song is sung in Swahili and Baba Yetu means “Our Father.” In case your Swahili is a bit rusty, you can read the lyrics on Tin’s website, although the lyrics are merely a translation of the Lord’s Prayer (obviously a beautiful piece of poetry in any language).

As you know the holidays are coming up (if you forgot go step into any Macy’s in the country), and gamers need cool toys and gadgets to play with!

Here is a list of some of the cooler items you can get for you gamer or just nerdy friend (don’t worry, nerds are considered cool now).

The Westin O’Hare in Rosemont, Illinois was transformed into Starfleet headquarters for three days (October 22 through 25 2010) as hundreds of Trekkies – or Trekkers – gathered for the Official Star Trek Convention sponsored by Creation Entertainment. This year’s convention was a huge hit, very entertaining and very fun.

The most famous guests were Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and Christopher Lloyd (played a Klingon in one of the Star Trek movies and more widely known as Doc Brown from the Back to the Future film series). However, Nimoy canceled as the show began (due to minor abdominal surgery), frustrating fans who had arrived from afar to attend the convention. This was only a temporary setback as the rest of the activities progressed.

Facebook gaming, the final frontier.

Almost every license that can become a browser-based game is getting that treatment, so it figures Star Trek would be coming along. Publisher Gameforge has announced Star Trek: Infinite Space, a free social game set during in the universe as portrayed in Deep Space Nine. Keen Games will handle development duties.

Remember that scene in Back to the Future II when the McFly family hydrated a pizza in a few seconds? That scene made me thing the year 2015 would be a lazy man’s paradise. I doubt we’ll be hydrating pizza in five years, but we can pretend we’re in the future with this awesome Starship Enterprise pizza cutter.

Attention all you Chicago Trekkies out there, this October 22-24th 2010, Creation Experience will be holding the 44th annual Star Trek Convention at the Westin O’Hare hotel in Rosemont IL. Like previous years, the Con will hold lots of panels, celebs, venders, and exclusive Star Trek merchandise. There will be panels for all the celebs plus special events like a live auction, several contests, a Leonard Nimoy panel of his latest photo seminar and a “Rat-Pack” concert with ST celebs Max Grodenchick, Vaughn Armstrong, Jeffery Combs, Casey Biggs and Armin Shimerman.