New 'Star Trek' Game Lets You Be Kirk and Spock

Image from new Star Trek video game. (Image credit: Paramount Digital Entertainment)

As part of the E3 video game conference, Paramount Digital Entertainment has announced a new Star Trek game is coming to consoles and PC in summer 2012. Rather than no-name or player-created characters, as in previous games, this puts you in the new movie universe and lets players play as both Captain Kirk and the Vulcan Mr. Spock.

With co-op gameplay letting two friends become these space-faring legends, the game's story will be a new chapter within the current film universe. Marianne Krawczyk, writer of the action-adventure game God of War, is teaming up with Star Trek film producers and co-writers Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman for the new story.

After a long stint as Site Editor for Newsarama, Lucas Siegel now lives that sweet, sweet freelance journalist lifestyle in Brooklyn. He studied Communication and Journalism at the University of Iowa, and later attended Harper College where he continued his studies in Journalism and also took up History.