Good Old Games Is Now GOG.com
Good Old Games has rebranded itself, and is now known simply as GOG.com. They’ll still be selling all of the great classics of yesterday, but may feature newer titles as well in the future.
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The Ultima 6 Remake: Quiet But Humble Update
Zygon Dragon has posted an update to the Ultima 6 Remake project site, announcing various pieces of progress made in developing NPCs and features in the northwestern part of Britannia.
In Praise of Ultima 4’s “Narrative Through Gameplay”
Radek Koncewicz at Gamasutra has written an article praising Ultima 4 as a masterful demonstration of the concept of using gameplay as “the main vehicle for narrative”.
Warren Spector’s Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Announced (also some 3DS game)
Anybody think Warren randomly pulled today’s date out of the hat to announce this, given what game was released 20 years ago? Especially given that he was the producer of the Ultima Underworld games?
Ultima Exodus in Nintendo Power Circa 1988
Nintendo Power was published in-house by Nintendo of America during the late 80s and 90s, and covered some of the most popular releases for the NES, SNES, and Gameboy. They frequently published detailed hint...
Ultima Underworld’s 20th Anniversary
The Ultima Codex is pleased to present a tribute to Ultima Underworld, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its North American release.
Ultima Exodus in Nintendo Power Circa 1988
A look at the Nintendo Power Guide to Ultima: Exodus circa 1988.
About the Ultima Series
The games comprising the Ultima series were, between 1981 and 1999, the defining computer role-playing games. Both the Western and Eastern RPG “schools”, if that is an appropriate term for them, were heavily inspired by the Ultima games, and still feature numerous gameplay and interface conventions that one Ultima or another introduced.
About Ultima Online
Ultima Online (UO) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Origin Systems, which launched on September 24, 1997. It can’t claim to be the first graphical MMO, it can rightly claim to be one of the defining titles of the genre, and continues to run to this day.
What is the Ultima Codex?
The Ultima Codex is a collaboration between several members of the Ultima and Ultima Online fan communities: a single online space where fans from both sides of the legacy of Origin Systems’ amazing RPG series can come to find content that is of interest to them.
