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A speedy summary of the most recent blog entries, interviews, press releases, and forum tidbits.

Latest News

• A new official website has been launched accompanied by a interview with Daron Stinnett.
• HailingFrequency has a new podcast interview with Daron Stinnett. There are also new interviews with FiringSquad and MMORPG.com.

• Justus and Gamar #3 from Startrek-online.info is out!

• Ian Pieragostini explains how the USS Perpetual(pictured) was put together at Gamasutra. More...

• The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has a feature on their upcoming graphical development discussion with the Lead Client Engineer of Star Trek Online, Ian Pieragostini.
  The article demonstrates the U.S.S Perpetual as an Akira Class star ship.

• After a long period of silence from the developers. In a thread on STO.Net, Lorien Gremore, production assistant on STO, has enlightened us as to some of the recent developments that have occured. Perpetual Forum Postings updated. More...

• The fellas over at Star Trek Online info (The STO site for the German gaming network Gamona) have released the latest episode of their satirical comic series Justus and Gamar. More...

• Perpetual Entertainment hired Steve Desilets, a former Half-Life 2 designer at Valve Software, and John Yoo, former designer of World of Warcraft, for the development of Star Trek: Online. Also, a message from Glen Dahlgren. More...

Developer Blog

• New official FAQ now available.
• A development update by Daron Stinnett and some new revelations about the storyline.
• Nielsen Research aids Perpetual's decision making progress in a new Survey
• Space Combat is explained by Eric Heimburg
• Eric Heimburg talks about the economy and Daron Stinnett talks about new developments on the devblog.
• Daron Stinnett posts about the first of many surveys, and its results.
• Glen Dahlgren recaps the panel presentation at the Star Trek Convention heldin in Las Vegas.
• Ken Henderson reveals uniform and LCARS interface concept art.

...you can find the full listing of developer blog entries by going on the Devblog Archive page.

Interviews

• Daron talks to STOzine, MMORPG.com Warcry.
• Glen and Daron speak on the topic of guilds and fleets at TenTonHammer.com.
• A transcript of the Audio Interview with Daron Stinnett is now available.
• Daron Stinnett speaks to MMORPG.com
• Developers speak in a lengthy interview to STOnet.
• New executive producer Daron Stinnett talks life and role at Perpetual Entertainment.
• Glen Dahlgren, Lead Designer, helps Gamespot unravel ranks .
• PCGamer has a Q&A session with Glen Dahlgren. Features Perpetual's engine capabilities.

... you can find the full list of interviews about the game on the Interviews page.

Forum Discussions

Brief [and incomplete] list of Posts by PerpetualAdmin - Startrek.com Message Boards. ... you can find a full index listing of Perpetual forum postings by clicking here.

Game Media

• The first game images are available here in our screenshots gallery and here, along with other game media, such as concept art and videos (as they become available).