Beautiful Britannia Comparison Screenshots
Firstknight has posted several new comparison screenshots to demonstrate the texture updates present in Beautiful Britannia 2011 R3.
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One Million Hits!
As of 4:17 PM (MST) today, Ultima Aiera has logged over a million hits since the beginning of its website traffic statistics tracking (in 2008). That’s a pretty major milestone for the site, and a testament to the long-term staying power of Ultima.
Flashy Dragon Discusses His Flash-Based Ultima 4 Remake
Blair “Flashy Dragon” Leggett has published a blog post which describes his take on the events and circumstances surrounding the shutdown of his Flash-based Ultima 4 remake last year.
Richard Garriott's Apogee of Fear Will Be Released!
NASA has evidently relented, to some extent, and will at some point green-light the release of Richard Garriott’s “Apogee of Fear”, the first sci-fi movie ever shot in space.
Pix's Ultima Patcher Has Been Updated
Pix has updated his Windows-based Ultima Patcher utility to apply the latest Ultima 3 graphics updates from the Exodus Project.
Raph Koster: "Narrative Is Not A Game Mechanic"
Former Ultima Online lead designer Raph Koster has published an interesting blog post arguing that narrative in games is not a game mechanic, but is instead a form of game feedback.
Ultima Online 15th Anniversary Interview
MMORPG.com interviewed Ultima Online’s associate producer, Bonnie Armstrong, last week, talking about the game’s success, its recent updates, and where the game will go in the future.
Because I Have Too Many Mass Effect 3-Related Items In My Inbox
I’ve collected a rather decent-sized glut of links concerning BioWare’s upcoming action-RPG, Mass Effect 3, for which I am still quite stoked and excited.
Ultima 1 Revisited Is Just About Done Stepping Through The Game's Code
Kingspud has just about finished his series of tutorials which step through the code for the original, Applesoft BASIC version of Ultima 1.
Back to Roots: Exiting Dungeons And Trigger Handling
Fearyourself has made some good progress on his Ultima-inspired game engine, Back to Roots, over the last week and a bit. Exiting dungeons is now supported, and he has begun working with in-game triggers.
