Monthly Archive: December 2010

Forgotten World's weekly screenshot: mesh viewer FTW!

Forgotten World's weekly screenshot: mesh viewer FTW!

Iceblade has posted the latest weekly update at the Forgotten World website, and within it he announces another key point of progress for the project: I present an screenshot of the current incarnation of...

Added: The Pits of Carnage for Unreal

Added: The Pits of Carnage for Unreal

This project is a detailed re-creation of the four arenas — Fire, Water, Air and Earth — in the Pits of Carnage from Ultima Underworld 2 using Unreal. In UW2, the Pits of Carnage...

Game music finally gets a Grammy nod

Game music finally gets a Grammy nod

This is kind of older news now (well, last week, I think), but for those of you who haven’t heard: the theme music from Civilization IV, Baba Yetu, has been nominated for a Grammy...

Added: Avatar Minecraft Character Skin

Added: Avatar Minecraft Character Skin

Whilst Googling around for Avatar-related images, I stumbled across this: a custom character skin for your avatar in Minecraft…which just so happens to resemble the Avatar from Ultima 7: The Black Gate (and Serpent...

Ultima Online 2 Creature & Character Models

Ultima Online 2 Creature & Character Models

BanditLOAF from the Wing Commander CIC just brought to my attention the online portfolio of Art Wong, a digital artist in the employ of Electronic Arts. He seems to do a lot of 3D...

The "least worst" solution

The "least worst" solution

Ultima fans, unfortunately, can remember a time when a very different EA would have been willing to push “a game riddled with bugs on the eve of release” out the door anyway. If anyone...

Gamers abandoning gaming handhelds

Gamers abandoning gaming handhelds

Apropos of the discussion taking place in the comments section of this article comes this timely report via Slashdot: “IndustryGamers reports on new research from Interpret, which shows that more and more people are...

Back to Roots progress report

Back to Roots progress report

Fearyourself emailed me to report on his progress with his project, Back to Roots. He has been quite busy with “behind the scenes” work, and has added support for “pretty much every NPC” from...