Yar! It be "Talk Like a Pirate Day!"
Just in case you’re wondering what’s up with the site: the butchered grammar and sea-rat pidgin are the result of a handy little WordPress plugin and a Yahoo! translation API. Yarrrr!
Monthly Archive: September 2010
The end of game resales?
There’s a lot of heady legal concepts in this article, and I admit that I haven’t yet re-read it in order to absorb it fully. But if I understand it correctly, it would appear...
Games in the classroom?
[singlepic id=85 w=300 h=140 float=right]No, I’m not talking about playing The Secret of Monkey Island on your iPhone during another boring math lecture. I’m talking about games forming a part of a course curriculum…in...
Restored: Mo'Slo
This CPU slowdown utility is well-known to any Dragon or Dragonette who ever purchased the Ultima Collection CD (it was included as an optional install). Aiera hosted a copy for some time, back in...
Restored: Diligence
Michael C. Maggio’s Linux-based tileset viewer for some of the (earlier, I can only assume) Ultima games is once again available for download.
Quoth Warren Spector: "I think that this is kind of a Golden Age…"
That Warren Spector…he just seems to be all over the gaming newsfeeds these days. Not that this is really a surprising trend; with Epic Mickey garnering as much attention as it has been, the...
Path of Exile
[singlepic id=81 w=250 h=154 float=right]Now this looks interesting! Introduced at PAX, Path of Exile is a Diablo-like action-oriented RPG “set in the dark fantasy world of Wraeclast. It is currently under development by Grinding...
EA Mobile getting on board with Android
[singlepic id=80 w=250 h=250 float=right]From Joystiq: Speaking at the Deutsche Bank 2010 Technology Conference, as reported by Gamasutra, EA CFO Eric Brown discussed the company’s plans to ramp up support for Android in the...
Updated: Ultima 6 Online
Cear Dragon informed me that the Ultima 6 Online client has been updated, and now points to a somewhat more stable, North America-based host.
The much-belated picture of Dragonlet #2!
This is from the ultrasound the Dragoness went in for a few months ago. We are expecting the second Dragonlet in November, although s/he weighs in at about 4 pounds already with the better...
Testing Ping.fm Integration
Mostly in an effort to try and drive a little more traffic to the site, and to increase Aiera’s social networking reach, I’ve set up an account at Ping.fm and installed a corresponding WordPress...
