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Style thyself as a Knight of Monitor

Style thyself as a Knight of Monitor

I tweeted a link to YouTube user Resulka‘s “secret lost” thirty-ninth episode of her playthrough of Serpent Isle. (Resulka self-describes as “[y]et another LP-er with a propensity for vintage gaming,” and she certainly makes...

Shattered Moon gets a facelift!

Shattered Moon gets a facelift!

Shattered Moon contacted me about the possibility of jettisoning Drupal as the content management system for Shattered Moon, the home page of his Classic Ultima Online project. I built the first page for him...

An appropriate font test

An appropriate font test

“The quick brown fox” has nothing on this: Not that there have been goblins or dwarves in the Ultima series since…well, okay, Ultima Underworld, yes, but…ah, nevermind. The font is meh, but the phrase?...

EA's new Facebook game: Dragon Age Legends

EA's new Facebook game: Dragon Age Legends

Well, here’s one title that will benefit from the new EA/Facebook agreement! And as Joystiq reports, playing Dragon Age: Legends will have net you some extra content in Dragon Age 2 (though what, exactly,...

Video: Forgotten Hallows Rise 2010

Video: Forgotten Hallows Rise 2010

Dagur Dragon has posted a short video of the changes wrought upon the Avatar’s house, in Ultima 9, by the Forgotten Hallows Rise patch released by the Forgotten World team: I particularly enjoy the...

Restored: A Legend is Reborn/ERA

Restored: A Legend is Reborn/ERA

This project began as an ambitious remake of Ultima 1. However, due to the fact that Peroxide couldn’t get formal permission from Electronic Arts to make an actual Ultima game (not that this should...

Support me this Movember!

Support me this Movember!

Movember? What the? Yeah, some of you are probably asking that right now. Others may already know. The Movember concept, if you will, started back in 2003, in Australia; it has grown since then...

Now with social bookmarking (again)!

Now with social bookmarking (again)!

I’ve taken the liberty of installing the Sharedaddy plugin, which is the WordPress.org version of the standard social bookmarking plugin used on all WordPress.com blogs. So now, at the end of every post and...