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Restored: Ultima 1 for Java

Restored: Ultima 1 for Java

This project never really made it out of the design phase, but it was still an ambitious attempt to create, back before game embeds on websites became commonplace, to create a web-based, platform-independent engine...

Another Forgotten World screenshot

Another Forgotten World screenshot

So…as was recently noted in another news posting, Firstknight has returned to the Forgotten World team, though at present I will be tracking his project — Beautiful Britannia — separately from Forgotten World here...

Return to the Serpent Isle: Portraits!

Return to the Serpent Isle: Portraits!

As noted back in their August update, Team Return have welcomed into their fold Jolyn “Nytefall” Kitzer, who was the lead 2D artist for Ultima V: Lazarus. In the intervening months, she has produced...

Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?

Spoony's review of Ultima 6: not entirely fair?

Sadly, he isn’t all that kind to that which I count as my favourite Ultima title: I don’t share many of Spoony’s criticisms, although that is partly due to the fact that, per the...

Well, I'm back

Well, I'm back

As Samwise once said. I am resuming posting as of…well…today, in fact, and will be working through the pile of mail I received during the week-long hiatus I took just after — and as...

Veteran's/Remembrance Day

Veteran's/Remembrance Day

Veteran’s Day (in the US) and Remembrance (or Armistice) Day in much of the Commonwealth, is one of those few times of the year that inspires a kind of somber reflection that crosses most...

Forgotten World Weekly Screenshots

Forgotten World Weekly Screenshots

Iceblade dropped me a quick note to say that for the next few months (at least), he will be posting a new screenshot from Forgotten World‘s development to the project’s Releases and Media page....

Added: Back to Roots

Added: Back to Roots

Commenter Fearyourself, who has stepped to the fore to help Kevin Fishburne with his coding issue, has an Ultima-inspired engine creation project of his own, which I have just now gladly added a project...