Black Alert, set phasers to “Streaming Service” Another year, another year ofStar Trek Online, arguably the oldest continuously runningTrekproperty now that it’s set to celebrateits 8th birthday. As with previous anniversary celebrations, Cryptic have stuffed a bunch of activities into the game, and are giving away a load of prizes, including a Bajoran Interceptor, as well as party favors, and access to a new main story mission featuring Geordi LaForge and voicework from LeVar Burton himself....

Also, zombie-infested mining colonies are in! I haven’t picked upStarCraft IIin a long time, and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. But withStarCraft II: Heart of the Swarmcoming soon, I caught the real-time-strategy bug again and need some sweet resource management to tide me over. Last week, Battle.net had aninterviewwith Daren “Abilty” Yoong, a game designer on one of theStarCraft IIcommunity’s most well-known and well-supported mods,Night of the Dead....

OK fine, I guess I’ll get hyped now I’ve been stubbornly attempting to resist theBloodbornehype train. Getting your hopes up, especially for modern AAA games, usually leads to nothing but pure uncut disappointment. As we near the actual launch of the game, however, I think the hype may finally be getting to me. After watching this90-second extended cutof the TV ad, I may as well buy a ticket. To coincide with the release of the video, Sony has revealed some other little unknown tidbits about the customization and leveling aspects of the game....

If you’re down with Capcom’sStreet Fighter IVand enjoy fine art, get this:I am 8-bitandNucleushave put together an unranked exhibition for the game in Alhambra, California from April 25 – May 11. It will feature over 30 artists, all of which are probably better at drawing the red devil (Ken) than I am. The show has been dubbed a “celebration” ofSFIVandStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li‘srecent releases. A cosplay competition, aSFIVtournament, and free refreshments are being offered (presumably) during the opening reception....

Look for the first episode on April 18 Actually, that should be “Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series,” but hell if we’re gonna cram all that business into an easily scannable headline. The studio’s nextadventure seriesstarts on Tuesday, April 18 withTangled Up in Blue(great name!), the first of five planned episodes. Today’s takeaway? Thanos and his illustrious chin are in the game. Telltale says there will be a new trailer out this Thursday, and it also has plans for aGuardiansseason pass disc....

The studio is currently working on aLeague of Legendsproject The studio behindRimehas a new majority shareholder. Today, the studio confirms Tencent is now the majority investor in the developer. Tequila Works is currently working onSong of Nunu: A League of Legends Story, part of a tie-in with Riot Games’ Forge publishing arm. Other tie-ins from that have included last year’sRuined KingRPG from Airship Syndicate andHextechMayhem, a rhythm-runner from Choice Provisions....

Dangerous Golf for PC, PS4, Xbox One Ex-Criterion Games developers Fiona Sperry and Alex Ward started a new venture,Three Fields Entertainment, in 2014. We had heard that they were working on a “multiplayer sports title” — and that they’d eventually like to take a crack at aBurnoutspiritual successorwith “lots and lots of crashing” — but that’s about all we knew. Today, we have a name:Dangerous Golf. It’s about what you would expect given the people on board, and that makes me so happy....

‘THANKS A LOT, JERKS’ The Division’sborked issues have been makingheadlines, we know, but I don’t think anyone of us expected it to make it onto Fox News in a segment about prepping 18-year-olds for Real Life Problems. In a discussion about what skills baby adults need, former Dean Julie Lythcott-Haims said on Fox News’s Red Eye that they need to be able to talk to strangers, manage assignments/workload deadlines, contribute to the running of a household, handle interpersonal problems, cope with ups and downs, be able to earn and manage money, and be able to take risks....

The Getaway 3is one of those games that seem to have been in development forever, and it was believed that the London-based crime game, along withEight Days, had been abandoned by Sony so thatEyePetcould be worked on. However, Sony Computer Entertainment Europehas confirmedthat the games aren’t on the scrapheap, they’ve merely been put “on hold.” “I would not say they were abandoned, just put aside. Much work had been done,” states SCEE’s Nicolas Doucet....

Worlds Collide The “Sonic and Mega Man: Worlds Collide” arc from Archie Comics was pretty radical. See, I’m using ’90s terminology to describe it, so you know it has to be good. The comic series sees Mega Man and Sonic pitted against and with one another in an epic battle against Wily and Dr. Eggman, and it’s just as fun as it sounds. Now you’re able to get it as part of a recent Humble Comics Bundle....

If you’re any kind of nerd at all you know Neil DeGrasse Tyson and you knowStar Trek. You probably also know the earth shattering effects of the two of these things combining. At this year’s SDCC DeGrasse attended the Starship Smackdown panel, where famous nerds debate what the best starships in science fiction history are March Madness style. This year the panel was stuck between the Original Series Enterprise and the refitted Enterprise for the first cycle ofStar Trekmovies....

Modder does what Gearbox didn’t A modder has “fixed”Aliens:Colonial Marines. TemplarGFX has created ACM Overhaul, a new mod that addresses the game’sdreadfulenemy AI to make the Xenomorphs faster and more aggressive, as well as tweaking the in-game world to make it more atmospheric and realistic. The modder has even scaled down enemy health to compensate for their boosted speed and aggression. Other tweaks include indefinite corpses and blood, improved lighting and shade, and improved weaponry....

It’s being published to celebrateXenoblade Chronicles 3, but has tidbits on prior games Nintendo just published an officialXenobladeinterviewthat talks to key development team members, and it touches on prior games in the series, not justXenoblade Chronicles 3. [Note that the interview contains vague spoilers for the third game.] The roundtable consists of Tetsuya Takahashi (senior director and chief creative officer at Monolith Soft), Koh Kojima (producer and director at Monolith Soft), and Genki Yokota (producer and director at Nintendo)....