The head of development for EA Sports, Andrew Wilson, delivered a talk in which he discussed pricing models for games in the “Gaming 3.0” future. And believe me, it’s way more interesting than that buzzword-laden phrase suggests.
UOJournal looks at the question of how many players are still active in Ultima Online, and comes away with some figures that I think, at least, are surprising.
Fearyourself has continued to work and report on his Ultima-inspired game engine project, Back to Roots, and has even found a way to incorporate the graphics from the recently-released high-resolution tileset for xu4.
An Infomania article from 1983 which discusses a bug in Ultima 2 allowing for the creation of bridges of ships (also features a short interview with Richard Garriott).
