News

Bigpoint may rescue Star Trek: Infinite Space
Posted: 23.11.2011 15:35 by JonahFalcon Comments: 6
Last month, Gameforge laid off 100 of its staff, which was 20% of its workforce. This put many of its games in indefinite hiatus, including the browser-based, free-to-play MMO Star Trek: Infinite Space.

 
However, Battlestar Galactica Online publisher Bigpoint has shown interest in Infinite Space and may rescue the title. Reports indicate that CEO Heiko Hubertz is in negotiations co-publish the MMO. However, the negotiations are apparently in the early stages.

The troubled MMO had already been threatened by layoffs earlier in the year when Gameforge announced that the development staff would be "restructuring", which put the beta test on indefinite hiatus.

Star Trek: Infinite Space allows players to be a captain of a Federation or Klingon ship, hiring personnel, exploring new worlds, engaging in ship-to-ship combat as well as non-combat missions, and socializing on interstellar lounges. Check out Strategy Informer's preview here.

Comments

By nocutius (SI Elite) on Nov 23, 2011
nocutius
It would be quite funny if this turns out better than STO.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Nov 23, 2011
SirRoderick
Looking at the screens, that seems unlikely.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Nov 23, 2011
JonahFalcon
Actually, from what little I've seen and played, it's far better than STO.
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Nov 24, 2011
nocutius
If i had never played STO that would almost sound like some sort of an accomplishment :).

The only thing that game has going for it are the space battles which look good and also play nice, but as a package it fails completely.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Nov 24, 2011
JonahFalcon
Infinite Space promises to have away missions that aren't combat missions. Real ones.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Nov 25, 2011
herodotus
I've played "STO" for about 4 months, and still I've been following the progression of "IS". Different approach to the ST universe, and will sit very happily alongside "STO" on my hard drive. Good to see the large volume of work so far done on ship modelling and content by Gameforge devs may not be just binned out the airlock.