Few people as devoted to games as modders, who toil away on labours of love long after Joe Player has forgotten the game even existed. Take Star Trek: Elite Force II. You may have heard of Ritual's boldly-going FPS, and perhaps played and enjoyed it, but mod team HaZardModding has spent six years converting the single-player campaign to co-op. Now, it's finally completed.

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As part of their 10 Years of Ritual Entertainment coverage, Ritualistic has posted an Star Trek Elite Force II post mortem. Level designer Richard Heath looks back at the production of the sci-fi shooter, which was released back in 2003.

Ritual Entertainment has finally release the Elite Force 2 game source code, allowing people to create their own single- and multiplayer mods for the Star Trek game.

Ritual Entertainment has released the Linux dedicated server binaries for Elite Force 2, allowing server administrators to run a server for the Star Trek shooter. Thanks Ritualistic.

A new patch for Elite Force 2 has been released, updating the Star Trek shooter to version 1.1. The patch fixes several bugs, and adds four new multiplayer maps to the game.

Fan site Ritualistic is taking signups from people who want to test the upcoming 1.10 patch for Elite Force 2. Currently in beta, the patch fixes several of the game's multiplayer issues.

It took a while, but Ritual Entertainment has finally released the Elite Force 2 GDK. It includes the UberRadiant level editor, 3D Studio MAX plugins, example map and model files and documentation for all of these tools.

Activision has released a beta server update for the recently released Star Trek: Elite Force 2. The unsupported update removes the requirement of needing the game CD in the CD-ROM drive for people running servers.

Activision has released a new Elite Force 2 movie, showing off the "babes" of the game in this minute long MPG clip. Thanks Gamers Hell.

Just in time before the game's release, Gamers Depot has posted a new Elite Force 2 Q&A. Activision's Dan Hagerty answers questions about new and familiar features in the game, weapons and equipment we'll use this time, character interaction, the missions, multiplayer modes, and plans for an editor release.

Doupe.cz has posted their Star Trek Elite Force 2 Q&A, getting a few more questions answered before the game shows up in stores. Topics include the gameplay, the plot, moving from the Voyager to Next Generation universe, the missions, weapons and items, multiplayer and plenty more.

Activision UK has just announced that Ritual Entertainment's Star Trek: Elite Force 2 has gone gold. The game will be shipping to stores soon (around the 20th in Europe, the 24th in the US). If you haven't checked it out yet, a singleplayer demo is available.

There's a Q&A with Ritual's Jon Galloway on Voodoo Extreme, asking the Creative Director about the upcoming Star Trek: Elite Force 2.

GameSpy is the latest site to feature an Elite Force 2 preview, offering their impressions of Ritual's Star Trek shooter sequel. The game is pretty much done and will ship at the end of the month.

Activision has released two new movies from Elite Force 2, showing the game's prerendered intro movie as well as some multiplayer action. You can grab both movies from FileShack, here for the multiplayer movie and here for the intro one. Thanks Ritualistic.