Ultima Forever: Version 1.6.55 Available; Get It Now!
The latest update to Ultima Forever opens new dungeons, overhauls the gear damage system, and allows players to remove Virtue-related hints from dialogue options.
Creation takes time. Time is limited.
Exult: New Snapshot Builds; Stop Using Version 1.2!
In an update to the Exult website — the first in nearly two years — we are informed that development on the project has more or less halted for the time being, and that the current snapshot builds are very stable. As such, everyone who can is encouraged to stop using version 1.2 of the engine.
Shroud of the Avatar: Windmill Village Home and Village Mine Basement Revealed
The latest Update of the Avatar from Portalarium introduced the Windmill Village Home, another player housing option for those of you who own property in Shroud of the Avatar.
Pen of the Avatar: Splash Image Amphitheatre (Continued)
In the latest Pen of the Avatar session, Portalarium concept artist Stephen Daniele continued his work on the amphitheatre splash image he began working on two weeks prior.
Ultima Online: Publish 85 Comes To the Origin and Izumo Shards. Also: New Fiction!
Mythic has pushed Publish 85 for Ultima Online to the Origin and Izumo shards. Additionally, there’s a new piece of fiction up on the Ultima Online website.
U3.5 Pax Britannia: Party Size Limit, Plot Written, Scipting Engine in Progress
Andrew Owen has posted an update on the development of U3.5: Pax Britannia. He has settled on a maximum party size, finished writing the game’s plot, and has the scipting engine in a nearly-complete state.
Chris Roberts: “Star Citizen IS a PC game. It will NEVER be dumbed down…” (Also: $28 Million!)
Chris Roberts isn’t building some lame console game, and he wants you all to know it. Also, Star Citizen just reached the $28 million funding milestone…because come on, you knew that was going to happen.
Spoken Like Iolo!
Iolo is alive and well in David Watson’s pithy reply to Richard Garriott on Twitter.
Someone Is Going After Richard Garriott’s ISS Geocache (Updated)
Richard Garriott currently holds the record for the highest-altitude geocache; he left a cache on the International Space Station (ISS). NASA flight engineer Rick Mastracchio is going after it. (Updated: The geocache has been reached!)
BioWare Mondays
Star Wars: The Old Republic The upcoming Galactic Starfighter expansion for BioWare’s Star Wars MMORPG continues to look awesome, if not quite as enticing as…say…Star Citizen. The third-person flight mechanics seem a bit too...
Shroud of the Avatar: Another Story Excerpt, Another Map Puzzle Piece Revealed
In the latest update to the Shroud of the Avatar website, Portalarium have revealed yet another story excerpt, accompanied by yet another puzzle piece showing a more detailed snippet of the map of the Island of Novia. New Britannia evidently also has a Serpent’s Spine mountain range!
