Author: WtF Dragon

July 21, 2014

The CRPG Addict Plays Ring of Darkness (An Obvious Ultima Ripoff)

The CRPG Addict is playing through Ring of Darkness, a 1982 ZX Spectrum game that very obviously rips off Akalabeth, Ultima 1, and Ultima 2.

Ultima Dragons

July 21, 2014

The Ultima Dragons Facebook Group Tops 800 Members

The Ultima Dragons Facebook group continues to add members, and now comprises over 800 Dragons. Hast thou joined yet?

Gaming / Ultima Fan Projects

July 21, 2014

OpenMW: Version 0.31.0 Released

The OpenMW team have reached another milestone in the development of their open source engine for Morrowind, and have squashed a truly staggering number of bugs this time around.

Ultima Fan Projects

July 21, 2014

The Dark Unknown: New Demo Available

Goldenflame Dragon has released a new and updated, browser-based demo of The Dark Unknown.

Ultima Online

July 19, 2014

Ultima Online: Publish 86 Live on TC1, Launches Vice vs. Virtue PVP Event

Broadsword Online Games have released Publish 86 onto Ultima Online’s Test Center shard. The main event it kicks off is the “Vice vs. Virtue” faction-vs.-faction PvP event.

Headlines

July 18, 2014

Raph Koster Discusses Privateer Online

Raph Koster, inspired by the excitement surrounding No Man’s Sky, wrote a blog post about his work on a version of Privateer Online, which was ultimately cancelled. It makes for an interesting read, as...

Headlines

July 18, 2014

Underworld Ascension Has Been On the Drawing Board Since October of 2013

October 3rd, 2013: that’s when Cerulean Sky Productions (doesn’t that just sound somehow familiar?) trademarked, among other things, three game titles: Underworld, Underworld Ascendant, and Rise of the Underworld. Since then, they’ve also trademarked...

Wallpaper for the Week

July 17, 2014

By Request: An Origin Systems “We Created Worlds” Wallpaper

Over on the Ultima Dragons Facebook page, Dino the Dark Dragon (among others) commented that Chlorthos’ Origin Systems logo wallpaper should really have read “we created worlds”. So I obligingly fired up Gimp this...

Origin Systems / Wallpaper for the Week

July 16, 2014

Wallpaper for the Week: The Origin Systems Logo

Courtesy of Chlorthos Dragon, this week’s excellent desktop and mobile phone wallpaper is none other than the Origin Systems logo set upon a backdrop of stars. It is available in both portrait and landscape...