Ha! Didn’t see that coming… right. As reported by WarCry, the crooks folks over at P2 Entertainment (also known as the fraudulent-company-formed-to-escape-liabilities, formerly known as Perpetual Entertainment), will no longer be developing Star Trek Online. The license and content have been transferred to an unnamed San Francisco Bay area company. The code remains with P2. Not hard to understand as they are now in the MMO platform business. I am not surprised at all as I have heard around the industry that STO license is being poached by multiple companies.

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Gods & Heroes, which just entered Beta recently, has announced that they are being put on hold “indefinitely” (read: dead). You can read the official statement on their website, here’s an excerpt:

The Perpetual team is faced with a unique challenge of simultaneously developing both Gods & Heroes and Star Trek Online in addition to growing our Online Game Platform business. After assessing all of Perpetual’s opportunities, we have made the decision to put the development of Gods & Heroes on indefinite hold.

G&H has been in development for a few years now. It’s a shame that it’s being scrapped. I am not in the beta but concept sounds neat. There are rumors flying around as usual that Perpetual’s not being managed properly. But it’s really very hard to be a small studio and trying to put out two MMOs (I experienced it myself).

I am anxiously waiting for some juicy bits from F13.net