star-trek-dac posts

It wasn't looking like the previously announced movie tie-in game Star Trek D.A.C. was going to be released for the PC platform. However TrekMovie.com has now confirmed that the downloadable top down space shooter will indeed be made available for us PC owners. The release date for the PC version, as well as pricing, has not been announced.

TrekMovie.com also has some new screenshots from the game (which we have reproduced here) showing off some of the visuals created by developer Naked Sky Entertainment. The game will allow players to either join the Federation or play as the nasty alien Romulans in three gameplay modes that support single player, online and co-op.

(By the way, we still don't know what D.A.C. stands for)

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, summer movies of 2009 is set for release on May 8 when Star Trek heads to theaters. The new adventures of the original crew of the Enterprise (with an all-new cast) has generated ton of press months before the release.

Now comes word via fan site TrekMovie.com that an upcoming game based on the movie is in the works. The site has posted up a flyer (reproduced here) that will be included in the Blu-Ray release of the Star Trek Season One TV series. It shows a game being announced called Star Trek D-A-C with a picture of the movie's version of the Enterprise firing at alien ships. The flyer shows a May 2009 release date and a logo for Naked Sky Entertainment. The developer's previous game was the 2006 released downloadable title Roboblitz (one of the first games to use Unreal Engine 3). It also shows a ParamountPictures.com/games URL that, for the moment, just feeds into the main web site address of the movie studio.

So what exactly is this game and why has Paramount decided to basically publish this game itself instead of working with another publisher? Stay tuned.