Monthly Archive: July 2010

Lord of Ultima Forum

Lord of Ultima Forum

Granted, Lord of Ultima is way outside the canon of the Ultima series, and its game world doesn’t seem to have all that much to do with the Britannia that Ultima fans know and...

For Paul Barnett

For Paul Barnett

I got your message, good sir, and would be happy to help. I said as much in an email reply, in fact, and also included some additional contact info. Please let me know or...

Added: Return to the Serpent Isle

Added: Return to the Serpent Isle

Sergorn Dragon reminded me that even though I had announced his ambitious project — for which I am a member of the production team — on Aiera previously, I had not yet added a...

Testing weekend arrives early!

Testing weekend arrives early!

Oh, what the heck, eh? Apropos of what I said before, I’ve decided to bump up the testing weekend a bit, and have made a couple of changes to the plan since yesterday afternoon....

Richard Garriott wins legal fight with NCsoft

Richard Garriott wins legal fight with NCsoft

From Gameinformer: An Austin, Texas, court has awarded Ultima creator Richard Garriott $28 million over what it determined was his forced departure from NCsoft in 2008. At the time of his departure, a letter...

Testing weekend coming up

Testing weekend coming up

In Edmonton, the coming weekend is a long weekend, which means I will be offline (or, at least, away from the site) until Tuesday. As such, I will be using that time to test...

Richard Garriott Ultima 6 Interviews

Richard Garriott Ultima 6 Interviews

Forum user Saxon1974 alerted me to the existence of the two MP3s linked from this forum thread, which feature an interview that Ultima creator Richard Garriott gave during the production of my personal favourite...

Happy Birthday, Dino!

Happy Birthday, Dino!

Or, at least, “Happy Birthday Dino’s Ultima Page!” The signal best site for Ultima-related news and information has seen several changes and moves over the years, but has never ceased to be a valuable...

Added: Ultima 6 Project ZIP downloads

Added: Ultima 6 Project ZIP downloads

The full release-version download of the Ultima 6 Project is over 1 GB in size, which is fairly substantial. Heck, I can remember a time (not too long ago, either) when such a massive...

Sending the wrong message

Sending the wrong message

Framing context: a couple of weeks ago, the Dragoness picked up a new toy for our daughter…a toy cash register. It’s a pretty neat little setup actually: it came with a few groceries and...