Monthly Archive: January 2011

Neverwinter Nights 2 now available on Steam

Neverwinter Nights 2 now available on Steam

You can file this under “it’s about friggin’ time.” That’s right, Dragons and Dragonettes…Steam has finally added Obsidian’s Neverwinter Nights 2 to its catalogue of games. It currently retails for $20 USD (well, $19.99…),...

Ultima V on a Passport MIDI card

Ultima V on a Passport MIDI card

Over at ByteCellar (the vintage computing weblog), blogger blakespot has linked to a YouTube video of the title screen from Ultima 5, with audio being handled by the dual-card Passport Wavetable MIDI card. It...

Rockin’ Ultima 5 theme music!

Rockin’ Ultima 5 theme music!

Joe Garrity of the Origin Museum alerted me to this: I could say more for the sound quality, but that right there is a pretty epic take on the title screen track from Ultima...

The Excalibur Brothers review Underworld 2

The Excalibur Brothers review Underworld 2

Not quite as laugh-out-loud funny as Spoony’s work, but also lacking in Spoony’s customary profanity: I didn’t have a chance to watch the whole thing, but the snippets I sampled seemed pretty even-handed. The...

xu4 resumes development

xu4 resumes development

Andrew Taylor’s SDL-based re-creation of Ultima 4 was intended to be a cross-platform version of the game, much as Exult is for Ultima 7. The project fell dormant after 2008, but has since been...

Outage notice: this evening

Outage notice: this evening

I was alerted to this by my hosting provider this morning: (mt) Engineers will need to perform maintenance on hardware for a Storage Segment of Cluster.03 on Tuesday, 1/4/11. We will keep this page...

Ultima 6 Online updated

Ultima 6 Online updated

Cataclysm got nothin’. Cear Dragon sent me an email to announce that the Ultima 6 Online client has undergone a major update in order to better adjust to the growing population of the U6O...

Added: Serpent Isle – An Oblivion Mod

Added: Serpent Isle – An Oblivion Mod

Now this is how you bid farewell to the year gone by! The announcement of this remake also serves, in a way, as the cancellation notice for Thepal’s previous Ultima remake attempt, Infinity Eternal....