Ultima 6 for Super NES…Online!
Twitter user and Ultima fan Cody Baxter alerted me to this online Nintendo Super NES emulation site, at which it appears that the NES port of Ultima 6 is available to play for free....
Monthly Archive: February 2011
Nightly Open Thread
Blizzard…a twenty-year legacy of awesome, or a two-decade legacy of fancy window dressing on unoriginal ideas?
Richard Garriott has a plan to beat Zynga
There is a fascinating article about Richard Garriott’s new company, Portalarium, and its plan to take on social gaming giant Zynga at GamesBeat. It’s a pretty informative article, actually, structured around a discussion with...
Nightly Open Thread
The sum total computing power of humankind’s general purpose computers, world-wide, is approximately 6.4*10^18 instructions per second. Additionally, humankind’s total storage capacity, world-wide, is approximately 2.9 × 10^20 optimally compressed bytes. Respectively, that’s the...
In Por Ylem 2 Launched!
In Por Ylem was, apparently (I didn’t really know this before) one of the most popular Ultima Online freeshards. Its sequel, In Por Ylem 2 (IPY2), was released yesterday, and introduces a whole host...
Nightly Open Thread
Eight myths about video games…debunked here. And are consoles limiting the potential and future sales performance of high-end PC graphics cards? Discuss…or discuss something else.
New Gallery: OSI Rejection Letter
Courtesy of Kevin Fishburne (the developer behind Sanctimonia), Ultima Aiera is pleased to present this letter — on Origin Systems letterhead — signed by Richard “Lord British” Garriott himself. It is a rejection letter,...
Beautiful Britannia: New Flowers!
Firstknight sent me another fantastic Beautiful Britannia screenshot by email, and wanted to draw attention to a couple of particular features thereof. He writes: “The screen shows not only the new [texture] transitions, but...
Nightly Open Thread
Seesmic, HootSuite, or TweetDeck? Remember, this is an open thread. Don’t just comment on what I say…post anything interesting you’ve seen recently!
Why have I not heard of Worldforge before now?
Worldforge, which first emerged onto the scene back in 1997, bills itself as “the original open-source MMORPG project.” And that’s certainly a fair descriptor of what it is. It isn’t, strictly speaking, an MMO...
