Nightly Open Thread
I know that some of you Dragons and Dragonettes are hitched or in LTRs, so feel free to chime in on the veracity of this list…”Five Secrets to a Happy Marriage”: Talk less Lose...
Monthly Archive: February 2011
Richard Garriott on what modern MMOs lack
Ultima creator Richard Garriott gave a talk at the 2011 DICE Summit in which he lamented that modern MMORPGs have lost something that Ultima Online let people explore: “What Ultima Online did very well,...
Classic Ultima Online Is Back In Development
Classic Ultima Online has been largely silent for a couple of years now (maybe more), but developer Shattered Moon posted an update at the beginning of February, in which he reviews the original objectives...
xu4 Quietly Updated
I previously made mention that the xu4 developers had released a new snapshot they were terming “beta4”. Since that time, as Petrell has brought to my attention, they have also quietly pushed an actual...
Why there isn't a final version of Exult yet
The Exult Team posted a news update a few days ago, and in the hustle and bustle of traveling home I completely forgot that they had done so. Fortunately, Petrell reminded me, so for...
Nightly Open Thread
Pluto is still no longer considered a planet (bah!), but Planet X might be getting another shot at stardom. Or, rather, planet Tyche, a rumoured megaplanet located way far out in the Oort Cloud....
I totally missed the Titans of Ether's December Update
Actually, I think I saw a note about this at Dino’s, but never followed up on it. My bad. Anyhow, the Titans seem to have had a relatively quiet December. Zini was tied up...
Codex Dragon Does Dragon Age
Felicia “Codex Dragon” Day has been tweeting about her latest “mystery project” for the last couple of months (if not more), and today news broke concerning exactly what that project is: a six-episode Web...
Nightly Open Thread
Suppose for a moment that BioWare’s The Old Republic MMORPG fails commercially. Will the Star Wars franchise survive?
History in the Making: Civ IV's Theme Wins a Grammy
I wrote, previously: “for those of you who haven’t heard: the theme music from Civilization IV, Baba Yetu, has been nominated for a Grammy award, in the “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists” category. What...
