Richard Garriott Sees Business Opportunities…In Space!
Richard Garriott, presenting at South by Southwest (SXSW), argued that space is rife with business opportunities ripe for the picking!
Richard Garriott, presenting at South by Southwest (SXSW), argued that space is rife with business opportunities ripe for the picking!
Good Old Games has rebranded itself, and is now known simply as GOG.com. They’ll still be selling all of the great classics of yesterday, but may feature newer titles as well in the future.
Zygon Dragon has posted an update to the Ultima 6 Remake project site, announcing various pieces of progress made in developing NPCs and features in the northwestern part of Britannia.
Radek Koncewicz at Gamasutra has written an article praising Ultima 4 as a masterful demonstration of the concept of using gameplay as “the main vehicle for narrative”.
The Ultima Codex is pleased to present a tribute to Ultima Underworld, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its North American release.
The games comprising the Ultima series were, between 1981 and 1999, the defining computer role-playing games. Both the Western and Eastern RPG “schools”, if that is an appropriate term for them, were heavily inspired by the Ultima games, and still feature numerous gameplay and interface conventions that one Ultima or another introduced.
Ultima Online (UO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Origin Systems, which launched on September 24, 1997. It can’t claim to be the first graphical MMO, it can rightly claim to be one of the defining titles of the genre, and continues to run to this day.
The Ultima Codex is a collaboration between several members of the Ultima and Ultima Online fan communities: a single online space where fans from both sides of the legacy of Origin Systems’ amazing RPG series can come to find content that is of interest to them.
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Zygon Dragon has a question about the soundtrack for Ultima 5 (for the Apple II) and the capabilities of some of the advanced audio hardware of the day.
Gamespot is reporting that Warren Spector’s next ‘epic’ game will be revealed — presumably this means “announced” rather than “released” — on March 27th.