Rather Infrequent Open Thread
Because I am busy as heck this evening working on another site, here’s another open thread for you all. Discuss amongst yourselves…or don’t!
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Anyone Want To Sign Up For the Ultimate Collector Beta?
The next game from Richard Garriott and Portalarium, Ultimate Collector: Garage Sale, has entered public beta.
Beamdog Asked EA About HD Ultima Remakes
Beamdog, who are currently working on a HD remake of Baldur’s Gate, apparently approached EA about remaking the Ultima games. And they’d also be interested in working on an update to Icewind Dale.
Legend of Grimrock Released!
Almost Human’s dungeon-crawling RPG, Legend of Grimrock, has been released!
Rather Infrequent Open Thread
The no longer anywhere near nightly open discussion thread at Ultima Aiera. Yeah, it’s back.
Patches & Updates for the GOG.com Ultima Releases
A quick look at some of the patches and updates for the Ultima titles presently available on Good Old Games, all of which should work with the GOG.com versions of the games.
Get Your Face In the Serpent Isle Remake
Thepal, as I believe was previously mentioned, wants to create characters in his Oblivion-based remake of Serpent Isle that look like (and are based on) real-life Ultima fans.
Do RPGs Require a Foozle?
Rowan Kaiser, writing at the Escapist, examines the small number of significant games that eschewed the typical RPG formula of presenting the character with a final boss or villain to fight.
Jack Tramiel, Who Gave us the Commodore 64 and Atari ST, Passed Away
I know more than a few of you reading this recognize the above computer, a Commodore 64, and in fact probably played your first Ultima game on said computer. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWulIKrk4dc&w=630&h=350] These days, when...
