Larian Saturdays
The weekly round-up of news pertaining to Larian Studios and their Divinity series of games.
Monthly Archive: October 2012
Obsidian Fridays
The weekly round-up of news pertaining to Obsidian Entertainment and their various RPGs.
Ultima Forever: iPad Focus Test This Week?
It looks like Mythic Entertainment invited a bunch of people — not just in-house testers, but Ultima and Origin Systems fans in and around the Fairfax area — to visit their studio and test...
The Origin Gallery: Ultima Online Renaissance, Walmart Jewel Case Edition
Scans of the jewel case, booklet, and CD that make up an apparently specific-to-Walmart edition of Ultima Online: Renaissance.
Ultima Forever: BioWare Mythic is Mythic Entertainment Again
The studio developing Ultima Forever has re-branded…and taken on its old name once more.
Bethesda & All the Rest-a Thursdays
I missed the Wednesday round-up, so it’s time to haul out the lame play on words again.
Britannia in Bing Maps
Back when it was called Virtual Earth, someone imported Ultima 7’s map into Bing Maps.
Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen Reaches $2 Million Funding Goal
Chris Roberts’ spiritual successor to the Wing Commander games has reached — and exceeded — its crowd-funding goal.
Raph Koster: ‘A Theory of Fun’ Ten Years On
Gamasutra has a video of Raph Koster’s presentation at GDC Online 2012, in which he revisits his ‘Theory of Fun’ (now a decade old).
Richard Garriott Talks Ultima 9 at E3 1996
A video I tripped over on YouTube a while ago, in which a (young!) Richard Garriott talks about Ultima 9 and Chris Roberts’ departure from Origin Systems at E3 1996.
