Nightly Open Thread
Activision has killed the Guitar Hero franchise. DJ Hero also got canned, but I don’t think anybody cares. Oh, and Activision is sacking about 500 people as well. It seems to me we were...
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In a previous decade, Origin would have dominated this sort of list
By which, of course, I mean a list of the top ten games of the previous decade. Were it a list about the period between…say…1990 and 2000, you’d basically have every main-series Ultima title...
Speaking of Ultima Online…
…this is your heartwarming story of the week: …UO player Hollie Macrall recently celebrated her 83rd birthday, and while we don’t know for sure whether that’s some sort of MMO record, we do know...
The first ever Nightly Open Thread
Some of you may have noticed that the forum links are gone. The old forum has been shut down, and the new forum has an error I can’t fix…and, frankly, don’t care to. I...
xu4 is looking for texture artists!
Darren from the xu4 project is wondering whether anyone out there would be interested in making art — or custom textures — for xu4. Were someone interested, Darren is confident that he could make...
Exult is now available for the Xbox 360
Not that I can post a download; as Xbox Scene handily explains, the download is actually illegal for various reasons having to do with the licensing of the official Microsoft Xbox SDK. Apparently, news...
Sanctimonia update: terrain layers progressing, video imminent
Kevin Fishburne writes in to let us know that work continues to progress on his Ultima-inspired game, Sanctimonia. In particular, he reports that the terrain megatextures that his engine uses, and the landscape layer...
Ultima Underworld…a retro treasure!
I just stumbled across this, and figured it’d be worth a repost, since it basically speaks most of my own thoughts about Ultima Underworld in relation to the first iD Software titles: Some people...
Hey look…Ultima 6 textures for Minecraft
I was just randomly Googling for Ultima 6 images when I noticed this: Here’s the author’s short blurb about his work: Play Minecraft with textures taken directly from Ultima 6, the classic RPG. hide...
EA broke records with their App Store sales in 2010
Just how lucrative is the mobile app market? This lucrative: Electronic Arts is boasting of amazing third quarter sales of its own iOS apps. Joystiq reports that COO John Schappert recently discussed just how...
