It's closing in on 4 months since Gods & Heroes was cancelled and Perpetual Entertainment had to go through a round of layoffs. Now, not only are they dealing with legal issues, but P2 Entertainment -- formerly Perpetual Entertainment -- has now ceased development of Star Trek Online.
According to WarCry's breaking news, P2 has transfered the license and content of the game to an unnamed Bay Area developer, who will continue developing the project -- though the game's code itself will not be continuing on to its new home.
P2 Entertainment is now going to focus completely on continuing development and licensing of their Perpetual Platform -- previously licensed by industry leaders like BioWare -- as well as a shift toward the casual games market.
Keep checking back -- we will of course be following closely and report any new developments, especially once we know who has taken over the work on Star Trek Online.
Update:
trekmovie.com is reporting that Cryptic Studios may acquire the license, as they're currently interviewing ex-Perpetual employees to move over to the studio in some capacity. While Cryptic has yet to confirm whether or not they're the studio picking up the license, they are located in Los Gatos, CA -- only 20 miles or so south of the Bay.
Update #2:
This latest update comes from startrek-gamers.com and reports that Cryptic Studios has requested trekmovie.com take down their news story about Cryptic taking over STO, so perhaps the rumor is indeed just that -- a rumor.
TREKMOVIE HAVE BEEN REQUESTED BY REVERB INC, PR COMPANY FOR CRYPTIC TO REMOVE THEIR ARTICLE REGARDING CRYPTIC AND STAR TREK ONLINE. WE JUST SPOKE TO A CONTACT WITHIN REVERB WHO WILL BE APPEARING ON HAILING FREQUENCY WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS
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Can someone not just make a damn decent STO? I've been following it's devlopment for god knows how long now... and it's back to square one again.. I suppose it may be a good thing, it sounds like Perpetual are a useless company who have no idea what they are doing and no doubt would have produced a crap game anyway.
Time after time they have given "updates" without really having produced very much... After 6 months some PR monkey gives some info out which completely contradicts the last info they gave out because they are "going in a new direction now", only to yet again contradict it in another 6 months... Sheesh.
I mean we only just got some screenshots from the ingame engine a little while back, although they were not exactly exciting. What do they do all day in that company? Probably they all sit around living out their "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" addictions and not doing anything worthwhile I guess.
I suppose there may be a little light at the end of the tunnel now... albeit a looooong way off with the possibility that it's a fire and not daylight... But still... I live and hope.
rofl :D
KHAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(if you don't get it feel for you, truly I do)
And from whence does the Khan part of your name come??? Surely you don't expect anyone to believe it's from Genghis Khan.
It was as if a million nerds cried out in terror then were suddenly silenced.