The head of development for EA Sports, Andrew Wilson, delivered a talk in which he discussed pricing models for games in the “Gaming 3.0” future. And believe me, it’s way more interesting than that buzzword-laden phrase suggests.
UOJournal looks at the question of how many players are still active in Ultima Online, and comes away with some figures that I think, at least, are surprising.
Fearyourself has continued to work and report on his Ultima-inspired game engine project, Back to Roots, and has even found a way to incorporate the graphics from the recently-released high-resolution tileset for xu4.
An Infomania article from 1983 which discusses a bug in Ultima 2 allowing for the creation of bridges of ships (also features a short interview with Richard Garriott).
Feed the Gamer looks at Looking Glass Studios’ short but storied history.
The no longer anywhere even remotely approaching nightly open thread at Ultima Aiera.
The Middle-Aged Gamer interviewed some of the more well-known members of the Ultima X: Odyssey development team back in 2008, and posted the entire discussion on his blog.
Funny Webcomic — an online comic that takes on different subjects week to week and lets visitors vote on them — has just put up a spoof of Ultima 4’s gypsy sequence.
EA has recently made major purchases in the social and mobile gaming spaces, acquiring developers Ohai and PopCap as part of their increased focused on socially-driven gaming.
Zedex Dragon was, for a time, building a custom version of Ultima 4 for a computer of his own designing, the ZX Spectrum SE.
Fearyourself’s Ultima-inspired game engine project proceeds apace, with the addition of a healer in Brittany.
