I’ve been wanting to announce this for ages but legal shenanigans take forever, and if you saw the NDA I had to sign, you would think it was the script to the Lord Of The Rings.
Anyway…
After a lot of back-and-forth, and a lot of paperwork, and a lot of very long phonecalls at unearthly times of the night (here in the UK) to paramount legal people in the US, I can finally announce (and there will be a proper press release to follow) that there will be an official re-release of GSB with the official Star Trek License.
Basically the game will get a makeover and a re-release under a new title (to be confirmed, but probably Trek Battles). The artwork for the game will be provided directly by those talented chaps who actually do the CGI for the Voyager and Enterprise series, so the ship models will be polygon perfect copies of the renders used in the movies and TV shows.
The exact list of races that will get released in the initial game is still to be determined, but guaranteed inclusions are The Federation, Borg, Klingon and Romulan.
The game will be available for the PC and XBox 360, with a release date set for ‘fall 2010 whatever that means.
Expect to see a more legalese worded press release on the games sites in the next few days, but there is nothing to actually look at yet, so no screenshots. I’m stopping work on everything else related to GSB to work immediately on integrating the trek-specific weapons to make this new version.
Obviously I’m like a kid in a candy store, and hope this brings GSB to a whole new, and bigger audience.
Set Phasers to kill!