July 2nd, 2008

Stargate Online Game

Did you watch at least one of the Stargate movies, if not the whole series AND the feature films? If this sounds like something new to you, welcome to the world! More than anything else, "Stargate" is a science fiction media franchise owned by MGM since 1994, when the movie with the same name was released. In the meantime, Stargate SG-1(1997-2007) and Stargate Atlantis(since 2004) arrived as pretty succesful TV series, accompanied by a few DVD movies, already released or still in the making, like Stargate: The Ark of Truth or Stargate: Continuum. Now, we can also add a computer game to the collection!

Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment is the company in charge with the upcoming MMO, Stargate Worlds. Today, G4 Network's X-Play episode will host the official debut of in-game footage from the game. I watched some of the movies and a part of the TV series, and I must admit the screenshots I've seen so far don't look bad at all, but it seems there's still a long road ahead, until we'll get to the point when Stargate Worlds arrives on our computers.

I don't have any supernatural powers, and I can't tell when is this going to happen, but since the X-Play team got their footage playing a pre-alpha build, you can figure out for yourselves the game is far from being ready. Even more, the team also had a chance to talk about the game with Studio Head Dan Elggren, Creative Director Chris Klug and Art Director Howard Lyon.

Unfortunately, we weren't that lucky, so this is all we got on Stargate Worlds for now, but be sure I'll get back to it as soon as something new pops up!