Category: Headlines

July 31, 2014

Avatars of the Shepherd class in Ultima 9 can never max out their stats.

July 30, 2014

“The headless seem to be the result of a bizarre and cruel prank on the part of some powerful human or possibly nature itself.” – A Safe Passage Through Britannia, Ultima Underworld 2

Factoids

July 29, 2014

In Ultima 7, Cynthia — a teller at the Royal Mint — must be killed in order to obtain the vault key. Cynthia must be alive, however, to redeem the spoils of robbing the...

Richard Garriott Helped Design the Challenger Centers?

Headlines

July 29, 2014

Richard Garriott Helped Design the Challenger Centers?

Thing I knew about: The existence of the Challenger Learning Centers. Thing I did not know about: Richard Garriott evidently helped with the original design thereof.

Factoids

July 25, 2014

The planned map for Ultima Online 2 would have included a continent called New Britannia, which would have comprised the remnants of Britannia after an attempted re-unification of the shards of the Gem of...

Headlines

July 24, 2014

Subdomain Updates

I’ve been busy building the Ultima 4 subdomain. It’s not quite ready yet; I still need to restore a goodly number of the project entries. But it’s starting to take shape, and at least...

Factoids

July 24, 2014

Gazers and skeletons are the only monsters that appear consistently in every Ultima bestiary.

GOG Now Supports Linux (For Some of Their Games)

Headlines

July 24, 2014

GOG Now Supports Linux (For Some of Their Games)

Big news from GOG.com: Linux support has officially arrived! Currently, about 50 games are supported (if I read the news release correctly), with additional games seeing support added every day. To celebrate, they’ve put...