The following is a press release from FireSky about the new Stargate Worlds MMORPG game from Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Inc.:
Stargate Worlds Closed Beta Registration Now Open
April 24, 2008
Stargate Worlds, the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) from new publisher FireSky, is now taking registrations for closed beta at www.StargateWorlds.com.
The closed beta is an invitation-only test of the upcoming science fiction MMORPG Stargate Worlds. Invitations will be sent out this spring and summer as the Stargate Worlds team ramps up the numbers for testing.
The select group of beta testers will provide feedback to the development team about their game experience while also providing vital insight into the performance of the servers. The closed beta will begin with a small core of gamers and gradually expand as more functionality is added. Beta testers will experience Stargate Worlds alongside the developers who also will be playing the game.
“A game is nothing without players. We’re fired up to finally get our game in the hands of the community,” said Dan Elggren, Stargate Worlds studio head. “We’re at the point where we need external testers to take Stargate Worlds to the finish line. Our devoted fans have helped guide us for more than two years through our forums. Together, we’re going to craft a balanced, polished, and most of all, fun game.”
Testers will be the first to step through the Stargate for a super-sized sci-fi adventure that will send gamers around a galaxy dipped in liquid awesome. Discover thriving alien worlds, explore ancient civilizations… and tell them all the things they are doing wrong. Smack a clip into your assault rifle and enter Stargate Worlds.
Beta testers will:
Feel the heat — Master the battlefield using modern tactics and firepower
Travel instantly — Dial up the Stargate to explore dozens of worlds from ancient civilizations to high tech planets
Team up — Battle devious and powerful enemies with your friends
Find the new you — Pick from seven archetypes with unique skills and play styles
Don’t fight it — Simulate translation, repair and sabotage with minigames as your buddies battle it out
Solve the mystery — A galaxy-spanning story based on the award-winning Stargate television series
Stargate Worlds, based on the award-winning Stargate franchise from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), is scheduled for launch in the winter of 2008. The game is being built using Unreal 3 graphics and Big World’s server technology. For more information, visit www.StargateWorlds.com.
About FireSky
FireSky is a publisher for Social Networks at Play or SNAP games. FireSky’s flagship product is Stargate Worlds, based on the longest-running U.S. science fiction television series Stargate SG-1® and Stargate Atlantisâ„¢ which are officially licensed by MGM Interactive. For more information, visit the company’s website www.firesky.com and the Stargate Worlds community site at www.stargateworlds.com.
FireSky, the FireSky logo and Social Networks at Play are trademarks of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Inc. All other products or services mentioned in this document are trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners.
Stargate star Christopher Judge provided the voice for the character Jericho in Touchstones’s Turok, which was released on February 5, 2008, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Now, SCI FI WIRE has announced that a PC version of the game is also available:
Turok, the epic SF first-person-shooter video game, is now available in North America for the Windows-based PC, Touchstone announced.
Developed by Propaganda Games and optimized for PC by Aspyr Studios, the game gives PC players the opportunity to experience the story-driven single-player experience and multiplayer modes for up to 16 players.
The PC version, which enables either a mouse and keyboard or a game controller, has a suggested retail price of $49.99. The recently released downloadable Velociraptor Pack, featuring five new multiplayer maps for the console versions, will be available for Windows-based PC soon.
Turok is set on a dark planet in the future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former black-ops commando, now part of an elite special forces squad known as Whiskey Company, which is on a mission to take down a war criminal: Turok’s former mentor, Roland Kane.
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Stargate SG-1 stars Corin Nemec and Claudia Black are making guest appearances on other TV shows in the upcoming weeks.
Nemec plays Paul Eastman in CBS’s Ghost Whisperer in the episode “Stranglehold”. Look for this appearance on Friday, May 9, at 8:00 PM ET/PT. The storyline: “Melinda looks into a 1979 murder trial prosecuted by her father, hoping to find a connection to his disappearance.”
Black will appear in the first season finale of Moonlight as the character “The Cleaner”. In the episode “Sonata”, “Mick and Beth face the ultimate consequence of a relationship between mortal and immortal when a vampire kills a human in the heat of passion. But when the murder investigation threatens to expose vampire identities, Mick and Josef take action.” Watch the episode on CBS on Friday, May 16, at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
The Constellation Awards are Canada’s annual science fiction awards, focused on rewarding excellence in science fiction film and television. Now in its second year, The Constellation Awards celebrate and honour the actors, writers, and technical artists behind the best of today’s science fiction film and TV works – with an added focus on Canadian contributions to science fiction film and television. The Constellation Awards are also the only Canadian science fiction film and TV awards where YOU, the Canadian viewing public, get to select the nominees and winners in all categories.
The awards are presented and organized by the TCON Promotional Society, the not-for-profit corporation who organize the annual Polaris science fiction event (formerly known as Toronto Trek). The 2008 Constellation Awards ceremony will be held at Polaris 22, taking place on the weekend of July 11-13, 2008.
Voting is now open! Go to our voting page to submit your votes by postal mail or using our online ballot. Voting deadline: June 15th, 2008.
Visit the Constellation Awards website for more information about the awards and for voting eligibility rules.
Stargate SG-1 star Richard Dean Anderson recently posted a note on his official website concerning his recovery from foot surgery and his return to his role as Jack O’Neill in Brad Wright’s Stargate: Continuum, the first of the stand-alone SG-1 movies being released directly to video.
Anderson closed his note with this mini-review of the movie: “Oh, and by the way, Brad sent me a copy of Continuum, and I must shout and tout the relative genius of both Mr. Wright and Mr. Wood. The darn thing looks, SOUNDS, and behaves like a feature film. I am soooo frickin’ proud of those guys. Talented and genuinely GOOD guys.”
To get a preview of Anderson’s return as Jack O’Neill, view the trailer below (this version is without the cheering fans):
The world premiere of the DVD (and Blu-ray HD) is July 29, 2008, in North America. There’s a tentative release for the UK set for sometime in August.
Teyla poses as Todd’s Queen to represent his hive in negotiations with an allied hive, but tension escalates as the alliance’s territories are threatened by another Wraith hive.
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Todd and the Expedition have once again teamed up—this time with Teyla posing as Todd’s Queen. They rendezvous with another hive, one of their alliance, that has their own queen with whom Teyla is to negotiate. The commander welcoming Todd and Teyla aboard acts as his Queen’s primary aide and shows a great deal of protection for her and her hive. He has seen betrayals happen among even his allies, so he’s very suspicous of any and all who come from a hive not his own.
The rest of Teyla’s team stays on Todd’s hive ship, accompanied by Kenny. As soon as Todd and Teyla board the other hive, the commander takes the ship into hyperspace. This act surprises Todd, who says it is not part of the arrangement, but the commander suggests that this is standard procedure when it comes to treating someone that he doesn’t know. Sheppard, Ronon, and McKay lost track of Todd and Teyla once the hive went into hyperspace. Only once the ship drops out will they be able to track Todd’s subspace transmitter.
Todd stands close to Teyla, making sure that she doesn’t cause any more suspicion in this already tense situation. The commander brings Teyla word that a rival hive has just encroached on one of their feeding grounds and wishes for Teyla to give him orders as to what to do next. Each command Teyla gives as Queen is met with mounting suspicion, and sooner or later, things are going to go bad … very bad.
Brad Wright’s Stargate: Continuum is due for its North American premiere July 29, 2008. TV Shows On DVD has recently published two articles concerning the movie’s release on both DVD and Blu-Ray, one of which features a possible cover art design (included herein).
The movie has a run-time length of 99 minutes, and both releases are to have the same features:
Commentary with Executive Producer/Writer Brad Wright and Director Martin Wood
Featurette: “The Making of Stargate: Continuum”
Featurette: “Stargate Goes to The Arctic”
Featurette: “The Layman’s Guide to Time Travel”
DVD Details: “The cost is confirmed to be $26.98 SRP, which is the same as the previous “DTV” release of Stargate – The Ark of Truth. Running time is 99 minutes for a Widescreen (1.78:1) feature with an English – Dolby Surround 5.1 soundtrack. Subtitles in English, French, & Spanish are also on board.” (TVShowsOnDVD)
Blu-Ray Details: “While the DVD edition runs $26.98 … , the Blu-ray Disc version will list for $39.98 SRP. … The high-definition Blu-ray release includes 1080p video in 1.78:1 widescreen, and an English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio soundtrack. Also included are an optional Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, French Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, and subtitles in English, French or Spanish.” (TVShowsOnDVD.com)
Amazon.com currently has the DVD available for pre-order at $16.99. The Blu-ray version doesn’t appear to be available from them at this time.
Stargate Atlantis executive producer and co-showrunner Joseph Mallozzi has been keeping his readers up-to-date on the writing and production process of his Season Five episode “Whispers” in which Dr. Carson Beckett and Lt. Col. John Sheppard are surveying a planet with an all-female Stargate team. The episode is also a horror story, complete with mutants, strange dolls, gas masks, and blinding fog that interferes with flashlights and electronics.
Yesterday, Mallozzi published the names of the actors who will be portraying the new team members:
The four-member all-female team is commanded by Major Anne Teldy, the character being named after one of the regular visitors to Mallozzi’s blog who won a contest the producer held there. The talk is that she was supposed to be killed by mutant space cows, but things do have a way of changing as the script moves along the production line. Teldy will be played by SG-1 veteran Christina Cox, who had starred in her own Lifetime series Blood Ties. Cox played in “Spirits” and “The Sentinel”, and now she’s making the move to Atlantis.
Our readers should already be familiar with Leela Savasta, who is in the new recurring role of Captain Alicia Vega. Her character will make her debut in Season Five’s premiere episode, “Search and Rescue”, when she joins Col. Samantha Carter on an S&R mission in the collapsed building that swallowed several members of the Expedition in Season Four’s finale, “The Last Man”.
Sgt. “Dusty” Mehra (formerly known as “Dusty” Wells) is being played by Janina Gavankar, who played Eva ‘Papi’ Torres in The L Word. Dusty is a no-nonsense soldier who shows a teasing side in her interactions with Beckett and Dr. Alison Porter, the fourth member of the new team.
Dr. Alison Porter will be portrayed by sci-fi veteran Nicole de Boer, known as Lt. Ezri Dax in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Sarah Bannerman in The Dead Zone. Beckett and Porter geek out on the technology left behind by Michael in one of his research facilities where the first human-iratus hybrids were being created. “Dusty” sees the mutual attraction and makes herself scarce so that the two can be alone together.
Who will survive the horror of the mission? You’ll have to wait until “Whispers” airs.
SPOILERS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AS THE EPISODE IS IN PRODUCTION.
Rodney, Ronon and Keller are visiting a familiar village when Keller is abducted by a man who forces her to go with him deep into the woods. It turns out he is Runner, and his presence has brought the Wraith to the village. He needs Keller to heal a young girl, the only survivor of another village in which he drew the Wraith. McKay and Ronon help the villagers then set out to rescue Keller, running into booby traps left by the Runner along the way.
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While Ronon and McKay try to gather and help the villagers, Kiryk leads Keller on an hours-long trek through thick woods. She talks to him and he finally admits he is a Runner, a man implanted with a tracking device and used as a hunting challenge for Wraith. Keller that Ronon was once a Runner but no longer is; Kiryk is reluctant to believe her.
McKay and Ronon lead the villagers to caverns for safety, then set out to rescue Keller. Along the way Rodney steps on a tripwire, and Ronon has to save him from a nasty demise.
Kiryk and Keller finally reach their destination, a hidden cave far from the village. Inside are supplies and an unconscious 10-year old girl named Celise. She is the only survivor of a village on another planet that was completely culled by Wraith looking for Kiryk. The girl has a badly infected injury on her leg, and Kiryk wants Keller to treat her. Celise is so ill with infection that Keller is not sure she can save her with the supplies she carries. Kiryk practically begs Keller not to let her die, and Keller promises to do what she can.
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