Category: Site News

Return to the Serpent Isle character creation video

Return to the Serpent Isle character creation video

The busy folks of Team Return have managed to get an Ultima-like character creation system working in Neverwinter Nights 2, and have even posted a video of their system in action: They have also...

Added: Ultimate Action RPG Maker

Added: Ultimate Action RPG Maker

In his latest news post, Dino mentioned this interesting-looking new project, which aims to craft an RPG maker that features Ultima 7-ish graphics and no need for programming skill. It seemed worth a project...

Return to the Serpent Isle August Update: Stop, thief!

Return to the Serpent Isle August Update: Stop, thief!

Sergorn Dragon’s increasingly ambitious Ultima project (which I’m also working on) has posted its latest monthly update, and announces the development or updating of several game system scripts that members of the team have...

Spoony reviews Ultima 4

Spoony reviews Ultima 4

Spoony’s review of Ultima 4 is online and available for the watching, and Spoony himself is at his profane best throughout it. His…observation about the shape of the dungeon is unfortunate but, in this...

Updated: The Dark Core for IE8

Updated: The Dark Core for IE8

Thanks to the efforts of Infinitron Dragon, A New Breed of Dragon’s Ultima: The Dark Core is now compatible with modern web browsers (or, at least, with Internet Explorer 8 — other browsers are...

And yes, Flyleaf was awesome

And yes, Flyleaf was awesome

Call me picky, but if I’m going to be a fan of a band, I tend to make it a general requirement that they be at least as good in a live performance as...

The epic Epic Mickey bundle

The epic Epic Mickey bundle

My apologies for the title; the pun was irresistible. Anyhow, it looks like former Ultima developer Warren Spector’s upcoming game for the Nintendo Wii, Disney’s Epic Mickey, is getting the ol’ Collector’s Edition treatment....

Restored: The Dark Core

Restored: The Dark Core

Michael Hilborn — AKA A New Breed of Dragon — is a name well known to those who have played through (or who followed the development of) Lazarus. But before there was Lazarus, there...

So it turns out I'm really busy

So it turns out I'm really busy

As such, I haven’t been uploading files this week, or doing much of anything really. That said, things are going well in Paulsboro, New Jersey; things have been going swimmingly with the client, we’ve...

Restored: Arx Fatalis

Restored: Arx Fatalis

Some of you may recall that Aiera did in fact play host to a demo version of Arkane Studios’ epic, Ultima Underworld-inspired RPG Arx Fatalis. Also to be found were a handful of update...