Star Trek D-A-C now on PlayStation Network, Steam

Paramount Digital Entertainment, Bad Robot Interactive, CBS and Naked Sky Entertainment have released the newly-updated Star Trek: D-A-C via PlayStation Network and Windows PC through Valve’s Steam. The updated content for Star Trek: D-A-C will soon also be available via Xbox LIVE Arcade, with players that previously purchased the game receiving all the additional content for free.

Launching in conjunction with the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of the Star Trek movie from Paramount Pictures on November 17, Star Trek: D-A-C is a top-down space shooter where up to twelve players can compete in battles between the Starfleet and the Romulan Empire. Since its maiden voyage on Xbox LIVE Arcade in May, Star Trek: D-A-C has been expanded with two additional ship classes, a single player game mode, several new pick-ups, a new map for Assault Mode, enhanced gameplay features and more.

Star Trek: D-A-C features NVIDIA 3D Vision compatibility, allowing PC players with that special hardware to engage in stereoscopic 3D enhanced battles. Nifty. Planets, ships, space stations, meteors and asteroids allegedly jump off the screen in 3D. Players with an NVIDIA GeForce GPU in their PC can experience NVIDIA PhysX effects including blazing explosions and reactive debris.

Other features include online multiplayer, online co-op, single player gameplay, four different game types (Survival, Team Deathmatch, Conquest and Assault), five ship types for both the Romulans and the Federation, music and signature sounds taken directly from the Star Trek film and lots of other nifty little features.

Star Trek: D-A-C can now be downloaded for $9.99 from Steam, from the PlayStation Network for $9.99 and will soon be available as a download from
Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points.

Legacy announces Ghost Whisperer: Shadowlands

Casual games developer and publisher Legacy Interactive today announced a licensing agreement with CBS Consumer Products that will expand their roster of TV-licensed games. Part of the deal will see Legacy will develop a video game based on the popular CBS drama series Ghost Whisperer.

Available in early 2010, Ghost Whisperer: Shadowlands will debut on the PC and feature characters and themes from the television series. Players will take on the role of Melinda Gordon, a young woman living in Grandview, who has inherited a “sixth sense,” or the ability to see and communicate with ghosts.

Naturally, these earthbound spirits have unfinished business in our world preventing them from “crossing over” into the light. While trying to live as normal a life as possible with her paramedic husband, Jim, and as an owner of the antiques shop, Same As it Never Was, Melinda helps ghosts find resolution and pass over to the other side.

The game’s stories are penned by Emmy award-winning television writer Lance Gentile, with gameplay consisting of light adventure and hidden object-style game play where players need to help the recently departed move on to the afterlife and provide closure to loved ones left behind.

Learn more about this and other Legacy games by visiting www.legacygames.com.

The Top 21 News Stories of 2008: 21 - 15

(contributors: Hal Halpin, President, ECA; James Fudge, David Chapman)

We count down the top twenty-one news stories of 2008, though picking which were the very best proved to be a painful, gut-wrenching exercise. There were so many interesting stories this year; we watched the interactive entertainment industry grow - and then later - retract as the global economy wreaked havoc on every kind of business you can imagine; players got their first taste of WiiWare, Home and the New Xbox Experience; we watched as the big three slugged it out for North American supremacy in the latest round of console wars and we saw Blizzard dust off its classic franchises and move million of copies of its Lich King expansion.

Yeah, 2008 was a good year, but not without its share of triumphs, disappointments, joys and sorrow. Here are the stories that moved us, made us angry, scared us and made us think about the industry we cover.

We begin with #21 - #15, starting now.

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CBS Restructuring Leads to GameSpot Casualties

And you thought those argyle socks from grandma were a bad Christmas present. Last week, CBS Interactive gave employees something even worse: an axe, wrapped in a not-so-pretty pink slip.

Layoffs at the media giant affected nearly every division of CBS Interactive, including the company’s video game news outlet, GameSpot. Word of the cuts started rolling in last week, with a number of employees unexpectedly finding themselves out holiday shopping one minute and job hunting the next. While layoffs have been confirmed throughout CBS Interactive and the former CNET Networks divisions, CBS is refusing to release specifics on the number of firings.

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CSI: NY – The Game Ships

Ubisoft has shipped CSI: NY – The Game for the PC this week. The game based on the hit TV crime drama carries an ESRB rating of “T” for Teen and retails for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $29.99. CSI: NY – The Game is an adventure game that allows you to play as characters from the show using a brand-new graphic novel art style, interactive mini-games and interrogations, and original cases crafted by writers from the “CSI: NY” television series.

The game also features the voices and likenesses of Golden Globe winner Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes and the rest of the show’s primary cast. In concurrence with the video game’s release, the show will air its milestone 100th episode on Wednesday, November 19th. “CSI: NY” averages 11.8 million total viewers each week on CBS. Ubisoft’s CSI video game franchise has sold more than 3.5 million units worldwide since the first CSI title was released in 2003.

CSI: NY Actors Tapped For Game

Ubisoft is doing its best to make sure that its newest CSI game, CSI New York is as authentic as it possibly can be. The company has spent the extra dough to bring the actors from the show in to reprise their roles in the game. among them, Golden Globe winner Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Eddie Cahill, Hill Harper, Anna Belknap, Robert Joy and A.J. Buckley.

CSI: NY – The Game promises to allow you to play as actual characters from the TV show, a graphic novel art style, interactive mini-games and interrogations, as well as original cases crafted by writers from the “CSI: NY” television series. The game will launch for the PC on November 18th, in time for the 2008 holiday season.