Intended to compete with the popular Star Trek massive multiplayer online title, Bigpoint, a browser games portal, revealed its plans release a tactical space combat MMO based on the Battlestar Galactica series, Battlestar Galactica Online. The game, which will be introduced at the Game Developers Conference this week, is set to be released worldwide in August or September.

The Unity co-developed MMO will be the first title inspired by a blockbuster franchise to be developed on Unity technology, offering a game with state of the art graphics that can be played directly on an Internet browser; this independent engine makes it possible to produce real-time 3D applications without having to download a client.

“Battlestar Galactica has a huge and passionate fan base. We are proud to be able to publish such an internationally famous title as one of our online games. For the first time ever, we’re relying completely on Unity in order to offer our users fantastic game graphics right in their browsers,” explains Heiko Hubertz, founder of Bigpoint.

If you were wondering if Burnout and Need For Speed were going to merge to make one total new kind of video game, they aren’t, John Riccitiello told Kotaku during E3. However, he did say something about the Burnout developers working on a new Need for Speed title.

When being asked if EA is planning to merge Burnout and Need For Speed together, Riccitiello told Kotaku NO but he did confrim that the Burnout team at EA’s Criterion Games, led by Alex Ward, were working on the next Need for Speed title.

“Alex is one of the people in the industry I would analogize to the great filmmakers, etc..” Riccitiello said. “He is a true creative visionary. We had a great fight about what the next Need For Speed would be like. Of course, he gets to win because it’s his call. It’s not that I’m without an opinion on it.”

However, that still sounded like a possible merger NFS-Burnout.

“I don’t think you can fold Burnout into Need for Speed, because a lot of people like Burnout,” he said. “We don’t have a plan right now for a separate major launch on Burnout, because the team doing it is working on a revolutionary take on Need for Speed. I don’t know, if Paramount, in addition to owning Star Trek owned Star Wars, which isn’t the way it is, I don’t think you’d merge them.”

It’s very easy to tell that Paramount and Bad Robot’s downloadable title is a Star Trek game that is a top-down, space combat arcade title – which will be available on PSN and Live. But, other then that, we get very mixed up on the ‘DAC’ part of the title, and I mean really mixed.

Star Trek: DAC is “focused on fun, not a retelling of the story” of JJ Abram’s upcoming Star Trek reboot, according to Ben Hoyt, senior producer at Paramount Games. When calling Star Trek: DAC a mixture of Subspace and Geometry Warswhen describing the game.

Developed by Roboblitz creators Naked Sky Entertainment, Star Trek: DAC will support 12-person multiplayer, with two teams of six. AI bots will fill in the blanks if needed, or should your federation of online friends be unavailable. The game will also feature three modes, including solo play, cooperative play and a versus mode. Star Trek: DAC is due to hit Xbox Live Arcade in May, on or near the release of the movie.

 [First Details On Star Trek: DAC via Kotaku]

Well, the other day I was watching Spike’s Late Night Strip and it came up with the question who has the better games “Tom Clancy or James Bond?” and the picture they had used was the box-art “Quantum of Solace” so I went out and picked up the game, besides the all bad reviews. And to tell you something the game isn’t as bad as they say it is. This is really one of the best Bond game since Goldeneye and this isn’t an opinion, it’s a really fact. The story really isn’t that detailed, but it’s good enough to keep you playing it from the time you pick it up. Compared to all the other shooters out there this is in the top 40, on my list, it even has a Multi-player that is just like in Call of Duty 4, but it plays just like Rainbow Six Vegas’s Multi-player aspect. Anyway, forget what all the reviews say go ahead a pick this game up or at least rent, by the way the review should be up soon and James Bond won.