And yes, Flyleaf was awesome
Call me picky, but if I’m going to be a fan of a band, I tend to make it a general requirement that they be at least as good in a live performance as...
Monthly Archive: August 2010
The epic Epic Mickey bundle
My apologies for the title; the pun was irresistible. Anyhow, it looks like former Ultima developer Warren Spector’s upcoming game for the Nintendo Wii, Disney’s Epic Mickey, is getting the ol’ Collector’s Edition treatment....
Restored: The Dark Core
Michael Hilborn — AKA A New Breed of Dragon — is a name well known to those who have played through (or who followed the development of) Lazarus. But before there was Lazarus, there...
So it turns out I'm really busy
As such, I haven’t been uploading files this week, or doing much of anything really. That said, things are going well in Paulsboro, New Jersey; things have been going swimmingly with the client, we’ve...
Restored: Arx Fatalis
Some of you may recall that Aiera did in fact play host to a demo version of Arkane Studios’ epic, Ultima Underworld-inspired RPG Arx Fatalis. Also to be found were a handful of update...
Beautiful Britannia progress report
Because I’m a horribly forgetful person, I failed to post this news when it was at its freshest. Firstknight left a comment on his project’s entry to bring us all up to speed on...
Quoth Warren Spector: most game devs are "still making cartoons"
The former Ultima developer is evidently a bit down on the approach many big-name game developers are taking these days: …one of his main problems with games’ stories is their tendency to be dude-centric...
Added: Ultimoid 9.75
This is a browser-based parody of the early Ultima games, and looks very much like them, though it purports to be set in Britannia post-Ultima 9. So…check thou it out!
Restored: DrashRL
The original version of Mount Drash is, as was previously noted, awful and generally unplayable. Just ask Ophidian Dragon, in case you don’t believe me. SantiagoZ’s roguelike adaptation of the game, however, is a...
Warren Spector has him some Disney fever
The former Ultima developer and Epic Mickey mastermind is, apparently, very interested in doing something with the Duck Tales franchise next: In a new interview with Industry Gamers, he now says that, “A day...
