Added: The Pits of Carnage for Unreal
This project is a detailed re-creation of the four arenas — Fire, Water, Air and Earth — in the Pits of Carnage from Ultima Underworld 2 using Unreal. In UW2, the Pits of Carnage...
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Game music finally gets a Grammy nod
This is kind of older news now (well, last week, I think), but for those of you who haven’t heard: the theme music from Civilization IV, Baba Yetu, has been nominated for a Grammy...
Added: Avatar Minecraft Character Skin
Whilst Googling around for Avatar-related images, I stumbled across this: a custom character skin for your avatar in Minecraft…which just so happens to resemble the Avatar from Ultima 7: The Black Gate (and Serpent...
Ultima Online 2 Creature & Character Models
BanditLOAF from the Wing Commander CIC just brought to my attention the online portfolio of Art Wong, a digital artist in the employ of Electronic Arts. He seems to do a lot of 3D...
The "least worst" solution
Ultima fans, unfortunately, can remember a time when a very different EA would have been willing to push “a game riddled with bugs on the eve of release” out the door anyway. If anyone...
Gamers abandoning gaming handhelds
Apropos of the discussion taking place in the comments section of this article comes this timely report via Slashdot: “IndustryGamers reports on new research from Interpret, which shows that more and more people are...
Back to Roots progress report
Fearyourself emailed me to report on his progress with his project, Back to Roots. He has been quite busy with “behind the scenes” work, and has added support for “pretty much every NPC” from...
Another week, another Forgotten World update
I really quite like the regular news-posting tempo that Team Forgotten World have gotten into…and not just because it means I have at least one thing in a week that is for-sure project related....
Restored: The System Shock Hack Project
I kind of skipped over this project, another of the entries currently residing in the Orphanage. It’s kind of funny, to me, that I’d restore its files to working order just after the release...
